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Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

The new WebExtensions Community Group will seek to establish a similar framework for all future web extensions, and is actively seeking developers to join the project. Safari, with the release of macOS Big Sur, has a new web extension API that enables extensions created for other browsers to work with

Exploiting Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit

Exploiting Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit

On October 25th, I found a bug in the Anti-Exploit driver of Malwarebytes v3.6.1.2711 that caused BSOD and finally exploited it to achieve an EoP from a standard user to SYSTEM. In short, it’s a combination of incomplete input validations and an insecure manner of accessing

A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC. Because of this, all service boundaries and messages between Vitess’ systems

A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

It was launched in January of 2020, when we made the fly “hemibrain” connectome available on the internet — an online database that provides the morphological structure and synaptic connection of almost half of the brain of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). This database and its related visualisation has redefined the

Breaking VeraCrypt: Obtaining and Extracting On-The-Fly Encryption Keys

Breaking VeraCrypt: Obtaining and Extracting On-The-Fly Encryption Keys

Released back in 2013, VeraCrypt picks up where TrueCrypt left off. Supporting more encryption algorithms, more hash functions and a variable number of hash iterations, VeraCrypt is the default choice for the security conscious. VeraCrypt has no known weaknesses except one: once the encrypted disk is mounted, the symmetric, on-the-fly