Do you know that you can do this? No API key or token is required to do simple geocoding via OpenMap API.
Notice the response returns LONGTITUDE and LONGITUDE containing the same values. This is due a misspelling in the earlier API and a decision not to break the earlier API.
Find out more here: https://www.onemap.gov.sg/docs/#onemap-rest-apis
One of the FBI website had a web form that allowed arbitrary content to be sent from a legitimate FBI domain – passing all DMARC, DKIM, SPF. This isn’t even a hack – anyone could have done it using their web browser. But it could have serious consequences had the attacker had more nefarious motives.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for…
Earlier, we had a group which abuse Unicode bi-directional mechanism to deceive the reader about the actual ordering of source code, leading to clever hiding of backdoor in plain sight.
Now we have yet another novel method to include a backdoor in source codes. The attack vector makes use of Unicode characters that are invisible, but which are valid characters in variables names.
The attack requires the IDE/text editor (and the used font) to correctly render the invisible characters. At least Notepad++ and VS Code render it correctly (in VS Code the invisible character is slightly wider than ASCII characters). The script behaves as described at least with Node 14.
It’s a worrying trend to see more and more hijacking of popular packages to spread malware. The threat actor apparently gained access to the packager maintainers account and inserted a post install script to download malware.
The security team of the npm JavaScript package manager has warned users that two of its most popular packages had been hijacked by a threat actor who released new versions laced with what appeared to be password-stealing malware.
Source: Malware found in coa and rc, two npm packages with 23M weekly downloads
The Billion Dollar Code is a new mini-series from Netflix that tells the story of ART+COM’s lawsuit against Google, purportedly for infringing their patent in the software (Keyhole) that would later become Google Earth.
One of the key person behind Keyhole wrote the following detailed post, which clearly rebutted the claims:
ART+COM’s patent was invalidated in 2017 because another group, Sarnoff Research Center (SRI) in Palo Alto had shown a similar system in 1994, showing just how obvious these ideas were by 1995. In a stunning irony, the people asserting they “invented” Google Earth were bested by a pre-existing system with essentially the same name and function as theirs.
This is incredible. It’s essentially a covert computer inside a USB cable.
To get a cable like this, you used to need a million dollar budget or to find a guy named MG at DEFCON. But Hak5 teamed up with MG to allow more people access to this previously clandestine attack hardware. Every O.MG Cable is hand made and tailored to look and feel exactly like the cable your target already has in their possession. You won’t need a million dollar budget for this cable, but the power and capabilities are extensive.It is packed with a web server, 802.11 radio, and way more memory and processing power than the type of cable you would want for just doing demos. But the flexibility makes demos easy.The O.MG Cable is built for covert field-use, with features that enhance remote execution, stealth, forensics evasion, all while being able to quickly change your tooling on the
Source: O.MG Cable – * to USB-A
This looks super impressive and is potentially game-changing. Auto-completion has been around for ages, since the early days of Visual Assist, to Visual Studio Autocomplete. This is another level. It works like GPT-3 in that it tries to suggest whole section of code or a complete function based on comments and other signals. This will be something that companies will pay for. Based on HN comments, alpha testers gave it rave reviews. It’s currently in technical preview. Can’t wait for general availability.
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
This is like the worse case scenario that security researchers have been warning about. Someone exploited an old vulnerability for some WD devices and wiped out all the data in those devices that are exposed in the internet.
WD advises customers to immediately unplug their My Book Live and My Book Live Duo from the internet.
“I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years,” the person who started the thread wrote. “I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seem there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity.”
It’s too easy to blame IoT device manufacturers, but this is a very tough problem. The following comment from HN says it best.
There’s really no winning with this.
You can release patches 6 years after your device is EoL but there will forever be more security issues and people using your ancient product (think how long it takes some versions of Windows to truly reach less than 100k active machines. Hell I wonder if Windows 3.1 has really reached that number or not. The long tail is going to be loooong). Not to mention you’ve created a precedent that the device is still getting patches and can be used by users, only making the lifecycle issue worse.
You can release a version which severely limits the capability of the product or effectively disables it but this is just a guaranteed way of getting bad press and even more customers will be mad at you for killing a device early.
You can turn the device over to the community (if you can managed to get it through legal and 3rd party agreements) but that isn’t actually going to solve anything as it’s not a product for extremely tech savvy users, at best it buys deflection in the news report in exchange for the effort of doing this (if you can at all).
You can claim the lifecycle is over and years later and be technically correct but still get the bad press and user feedback anyways.
Source: “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
A blistering review of “HarmonyOS” – Huawei’s touted answer to Google’s Android. Turns out it’s actually really Android – at least that’s what the reviewer had access to after an onerous application process which includes a two-day background check.
No discernible difference between Huawei’s “all-new” OS and Android.
And he’s not kidding about the obfuscated language.
Source: Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development
Update (2021-06-03): Huawei officially launches HarmonyOS. In summary: HarmonyOS on IoT and smartwatch is based on Huawei’s LiteOS. HarmonyOS for phones and tablets is still based on Android.
The onerous sign-up process remains.
This is not your typical website. This website from the family office of Nintendo’s founder just brings back the 80s vibes.
It’s nothing short of amazing what you come up with when you’re not bounded by traditional constraints of what a website is supposed to look like.
We are Yamauchi-No.10 Family Office. Our mission is making a contribution to the society through our activities. https://y-n10.com/
Source: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
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