A post on Goto10Retro, brought to the top of Hacker News today, tells the story of how a 1980s Commodore 64 served as a refuge for a troubled teenager. It's also a gateway to discussing a machine that shaped an entire generation.
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A sanitation flaw in the WordPress core allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server. Patch immediately.
1 h ago 8 0
An 11-byte TLS request is enough to cause OpenSSL server memory to bloat, leading to a denial of service. A formidable asymmetric DoS.
1 h ago 6 0
An independent researcher publishes the analysis of a Kasa camera that, since 2019, has been responding to unsigned UDP requests and disclosing the GPS coordinates of the home. A class of bug that should have disappeared.
5 h ago 15 0
A tinkerer publishes a reverse exploration of the JPEG codec: generating images that, when decoded, produce deliberate artifacts by playing with DCT quantization. Curious, instructive, and an excellent exercise to understand the format.
5 h ago 20 0
