Today in vulnerability coordination:

Vendor: "That's not a vulnerability, it requires X level of access and nobody should expose that according to our hardening guide"

Me: "Okay, so if I publicly disclose the backdoor password needed to exploit this, you are comfortable with that?"

Vendor: "You can't do that, it would put customers at unnecessary risk."

Seems like every time Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes, he bombs a neighboring country, and the trial is delayed again...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-trial-paused-as-syria-bombed

Loving the latest scamming-the-scammers video from @kitboga, which delves into the sprawling industry of fake trademark and publishing companies. He even features a screenshot at the beginning showing my recent story about a giant scam enterprise operating out of Texas and Pakistan that is also the subject of a synthetic opioids investigation by the feds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFIMot6QuM

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/

In other news, the subjects of that story recently sued for defamation in Pakistan. Their crack attorneys named "Krebson Security" (lol) and included our contact at our speakers bureau. They also are going after Danny De Hek, who recently published an investigation into the same group.

https://www.dehek.com/general/ponzi-scheme-scamalerts/azneem-bilwani-junaid-mansoor-burhan-mirza-abtach-ltd-exposed-karachis-digital-crime-syndicate/

https://www.dehek.com/wp-content/uploads/intersys-bilwani-1/intersys-limited-vs-techjuice-pk-abdul-wasay-danny-de-hek-krebson-security.pdf

Back in my day, we bought things once and actually owned them. Imagine that! You'd get a CD, a movie, a game, or a piece of software, it was a tangible item with a set price that was all yours. No strings attached.

Now? Everything's a fucking subscription. It's like renting your life, but somehow it ends up being way more expensive in the long run. Go figure.

This is why open source matters a lot. It still gives you freedom and whenever possible please support your favourite FLOSS app 👍