Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
A recent cyberattack on Canonical raised questions about whether Cloudflare was involved in blackmail, with evidence pointing to complex infrastructure links.
7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
A programmer demonstrates creating a functional language interpreter in just 7 lines of code in 3 minutes, highlighting lambda calculus’s simplicity and power.
Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Security researchers reveal a social engineering campaign exploiting Obsidian to deliver the PHANTOMPULSE RAT via malicious plugins, targeting finance sectors.
Another Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Vulnerability: Dirty Frag, (Fri, May 8th)
A new local privilege escalation named ‘Dirty Frag’ affects many Linux kernels since 2017, allowing root access via chained kernel vulnerabilities. Patch efforts are underway.