Hello hackers! In case you missed it at @defcon: @perribus, @adamdoupe, @the_robwaz, @TheConnorNelson, @thedarktangent and I announced @DEFCONAcademy! I kept meaning to spread the word, and now that there's hype (https://news.asu.edu/20241031-science-and-technology-def-con-academy-looks-serve-build-community), it's time for the thread!

Read on! 🧵

This is awesome. An actual working Turing Machine made out of LEGO.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7

#LEGO #LEGOIdeas #Computing #AlanTuring #TuringMachines #Programs #Hardware #Software #Programming #ComputerHistory

EPFL is hiring! We're opening three positions in computer science with focuses on cyber-physical security, security and privacy, and learning sciences. Become our colleague and join us at one of the top research universities (and clearly the most beautiful place in Switzerland with lake and mountains nearby). Reach out if you want to know more!

Faculty Positions in Computer & Communication Sciences / cyber-physical security: https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/page-26457-en-html/faculty-positions-in-computer-amp-communication-sciences-cyber-physical-security/

Faculty Positions in Computer & Communication Sciences / learning sciences: https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/page-26457-en-html/faculty-positions-in-computer-communication-sciences-learning-sciences/

Faculty Positions in Computer & Communication Sciences / security and privacy: https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/page-26457-en-html/faculty-positions-in-computer-amp-communication-sciences-security-and-privacy/

[Photo taken 5min ago from our lunch spot.] Please boost 🐘

This is the start of the Fall semester for my class "Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment". Syllabus and all course materials including all code examples available here:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

All video lectures are public and available for free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@cs631apue/videos

If you want to follow along, I'll be posting weekly links in this thread throughout the semester.

We're just a few weeks away from the start of the Fall semester, when I'll be teaching "Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment" again.

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

The video lectures remain online for free for everybody:
https://www.youtube.com/c/cs631apue

If you're interested, feel free to follow along during the semester, but if you wanted to run through some of the code examples from the videos before hand and let me know of any problems you run into, that'd be quite wonderful, too. :-)

We're improving on the existing Windows DPAPI storage in Chrome by adding a new layer of encryption to additionally bind the data to application identity, starting with cookies in Chrome 127.

This helps prevent malicious apps (e.g. infostealers) running as the logged-in user from reading/decrypting this data, and makes their malicious actions (e.g. to bypass/inject) more observable to antivirus.

Read more about this protection:

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/improving-security-of-chrome-cookies-on.html