Botnet Part 2 — The Web is Broken - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog[April 18, 2026] TL;DR — Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.
Kernel page-table isolation[April 18, 2026] Linux kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability (affecting mainly Intel's x86 CPUs)[4] and improves kernel hardening against attempts to bypass kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR).
oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise[April 18, 2026] Where tukaani's xz/lzma-utils 5.6.0/5.6.1 got a backdoor added by the author in the signed tarballs. Own note — And there is an example of why as package maintainers we should diff the tarballs they're vouching to users rather than rely entirely on git, although in that one it's at the end of./configure which is nearly unreadable m4/autotools soup.
Remote user impersonation and takeover[April 18, 2026] Technical explainations on CVE-2024-23832 fixed in Mastodon 4.2.5 (2024-02-01), TL;DR — There was no Containment of the provided URL serving as an "id" against the message own "id", Mastodon would just trust whatever was in the message.
Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals![April 18, 2026] "TL;DR — After noticing an annoying warning, I went on an absurd yak shave, and discovered that because of a tiny handful of Python packages built with an appealing-sounding but dangerous compiler option, more than 2,500 Python packages—some with more than a million downloads per month—could end up causing any program that uses them to compute incorrect numerical results." But also "Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (see pip issues 7325 and 1884 for more details)!"
surprising behavior in gnu tar[April 18, 2026] TL;DR — GNU tar tries to resolve + call rsh(1) when a colon is present in a path
Tails Design[April 18, 2026] (sem descrição no XBEL)
HEADS UP: some of these sites are dead, half-dead, abandoned, or
haunted. Everything here was picked by hand, by a human, with a mouse — no
crawler, no algorithm, no quality assurance department. If a link rots,
that's just the web breathing. We are not even slightly sorry.