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mirageson OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10

This focuses mostly more on internal security (i.e after the attacker already has a foothold inside) versus the classic OWASP that are for external front fracing applications

mirageson LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters

Also for that same module, is it able to integrate it in a broader campaign. I expanded the lore and why the players got here with extra quests, fluff and mystery and they only reached said dungeon at 2nd session only.

Also the way a PC died due to a rat bite that could only be cured by magic (5e of this module is ironically harsher than the 3.5) as he was losing max HP every 24H. As the players expressed dislike with that character the owning player was willing to go for a new character and I had planned a big drama scene where the players exit in emergency the dungeon and try to rally the nearet village where there's a priestessd and happens that I could match the rolls so he would die in the priestess hands.

But I made the mistake to allow them to spend the night to get their 3rd level which would have allowed the druid to get his cure illnesses spell botching the set up.

Happens that I decided to exploit the fact that all other character the previous days made an offering to Beshaba to curse that character and force rolls during night (and try to find a way to make the new character come into play).

How it unfolded : - they were sleeping and it was the bard's turn for watch

- the bard was a follower of Tharizdun and was about to sacrifice the dieing character as said character was agonizing

- the new character was a Kara-turian enforcer that was chasing a yokai (he didn't knew) that used other people as disguise, made it happen that the yokai choose the dieing character "by coincidence" appearance

- the yokai being chased opens a portal while hiding to the dungeon

- the new character litteraly pops through a Wild Magic portal that pushed away the bard and tries to bash the old character as the old character runes on his skin glow a last time as he dies and repels everybody

- made the new character pop naked as I wasn't paying attention to what the player was saying when he was listing his inventory

- I let them handle the big mess

mirageson Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

"and it generated a critical exception error. This caused the FPRSA-R primary system to disconnect, as designed,"

as designed here sounds a big PR move to hide the fact they let an uncaught exception crash the entire software ...

How about : don't trust your inputs guys ?

mirageson .NET 9 Is Out

I just want to point out that for years Microsoft told us to abandon WinForms and jump on WPF. Now we're years later and Winforms keeps getting new features.

mirageson EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series

This is at best another forensic tool (unlocking the TPM of a locked laptop/phone for prosecution) and at worst a red herring for security flag.

- Clone a passport -> why cloning if you can issue new ones - getting risked being detected while using a clone (2 entries in 2 different countries, and you also need to look like the person) not to mention you have to destroy the passport

- Phone enclaves -> see above

- Crypto -> Hardware wallets should be kept on eye as badly as your normal wallet

- SIM Cards -> Swapping is faster, or if you're the the gov, just an intercept warrant will do the trick

- Laptops -> see above

- EMV Chips -> If you have those skills and money, I don't think you'll lose time on cloning credit/debit cards

mirageson Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

"Added Holy See"

I guess no Holy warriors in the crusade for defending Earth ?

mirageson Learn OTP with Gleam

Yep clearly not obvious, I was also pondering if One Time Password. Would be a rare case where editoralizing the title could be handy

mirageson Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical

Works for me. I always start a new context and be as concise as possible. The AI totally gives me 3 ways. Safe marshalling first and then deriving on the memcopy

mirageson Elon Musk and Tesla ignored Autopilot's fatal flaws, judge says evidence shows

"In Europe, side and rear underrun protection are mandated on all lorries and trailers with a gross weight of 3,500 kilograms (7,700 lb) or more"

I wonder why it's still not a thing in the US

mirageson SQL reserved words – An empirical list

Here is my try :

  WITH [WITH] AS (
    SELECT [AS], [IN], [ON]
    FROM [UNION]
    WHERE [AND] = [OR]
  ),
  [OUTER] AS (
    SELECT [LEFT], [RIGHT], [FULL]
    FROM [CROSS]
    WHERE [INNER] = [OUTER]
  ),
  [GROUP] AS (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS [HAVING]
    FROM [ORDER]
    GROUP BY [GROUP]
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
  )
    SELECT 
    [WITH].[AS], 
    [OUTER].[LEFT], 
    [GROUP].[HAVING]
    FROM 
    [WITH]
  JOIN 
    [OUTER]
  ON 
    [WITH].[IN] = [OUTER].[RIGHT]
  LEFT JOIN 
    [GROUP]
  ON 
    [WITH].[ON] = [GROUP].[HAVING]
  WHERE 
    [WITH].[AS] = [OUTER].[LEFT]
  AND 
    ([GROUP].[HAVING] IS NULL OR [GROUP].[HAVING] > 1)
  ORDER BY 
    [WITH].[AS] ASC;

mirageson Why is kernel32.dll running in user mode and not kernel mode

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/fi...

mirageson ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links

It's me or the data they get is not in a searchable format nor indexed ?

mirageson UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal

Can someone explains me why a UK court is able to block a deal between 2 US corps ?

How can they overreach ?

mirageson Wikimedia Foundation: Copyright Analysis of ChatGPT

" it will sometimes provide a wrong answer to a question or “hallucinate” material that does not exist "

That makes sense why when I use it as a worldbuilding tool for my RP campaigns it's not bad because there is no "bad" answer in that case technically

mirageson Grand Theft Auto V exploit assigned CVE number due to partial RCE

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/dirty-game-develop...

Look at "(s)elf-exploitation"

mirageson Wikipedia blocks 26 million users from the UK's largest mobile network operator

Clickbait title. Can still edit from an account. Only anonymous edits are blocked.

mirageson Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks

Or hiding user ID in either the background of the forum playing on the alpha channel or using a special formula to hide the ID inside displayed users scores to identify who is leaking forum's info to other alliances.

(back when forums were still a thing)

mirageson Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation

Why does a diagonal pattern appears when doing that kind of encryption ?

mirageson Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ?

Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/

"Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????

mirageson California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles

Does this means if I hack my way into the hardware I can change the number on the fly while I drive ? ....

mirageson RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

How do you get this into a vertical PC and not have the connectors being damage by the weight over time ?

Even if you screw very hard the wall part, the inner zone is still floating on its own weight

mirageson A prominent composer lost his Wikipedia page

Just adding wikipedia discussion links so people can get a bit of context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:FaulconerProductions...

mirageson Soft deletion probably isn't worth it

In Oracle you have the flashback tech

  SELECT * FROM employees
  AS OF TIMESTAMP
  TO_TIMESTAMP('2004-04-04 09:30:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS')
  WHERE last_name = 'Chung';

mirageson $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

Maybe the market cap will go back to it's pre-covid values

From 2018 to 2020 cap was stable at around 200B$

Covid propelled it to over 2600B$ just on 2021

Now a decrease seems pretty normal

mirageson Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool

Gives a new meaning to set production in fire

mirageson Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests

debian.org jumped to the 14th most visited according to that page coming from the low 400th

mirageson California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident

That was part of spec of the traction/break of a vehicle I worked on. Passagers life was prioritized as the premise behind the decision was : "Outside the vehicle is an unknown, we don't know if it's a human, an animal, an object ; we know that inside we have human life (at least the driver, at most the hundred of passengers), so we give priority to what we know)

mirageson New Surface products, built for Windows 11

It's more

95/98 -> 98SE

ME -> 2000/XP

Vista -> 7

8 -> 8.1

Can't say about 10 as the version numbers are harder to track

mirageson GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler

Curious : is COBOL used anywhere outside IBM mainframes for any production purpose ?

Can you create a HTTP API with COBOL as well ?