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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
― Nikola Tesla
Marko Balac retweeted
The internet just had one of its WORST weeks in years, and some in the cyber world are already calling it “BLACK OCTOBER.”
Here’s what went down:
• PHP, which runs an estimated 70% of the web’s backends, rushed out emergency fixes for 2 critical flaws. Japan’s Prime Minister personally urged businesses to patch or take their sites offline, and AWS spotted exploitation attempts 4 days before the fix even landed.
• A flaw in Signal’s calling system could let the person on the other end keep LISTENING, and possibly watching, after you hang up. It’s been fixed, so update the app on every device you use.
• An Indian certificate authority’s security keys were so weak that one of them was literally the number 4. Anyone holding them could have faked a trusted certificate for ANY website, and Mozilla, Google and Apple all moved to block them.
• GitLab patched a perfect 10/10 severity flaw that lets attackers with no account run code on self-hosted servers. The bug had been sitting there for 12 years.
• A hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 companies, including John Deere and SharkNinja, at roughly $50 per break-in.
• The FBI and CISA say SafePay ransomware has hit more than 600 critical infrastructure organizations across 4 continents since 2024.
• Data on more than 5.7 million California public school students, including disability status, was stolen through a testing contractor.
• Hosting platform Railway had customer secrets stolen, and researchers have tied about $371,000 in crypto thefts to the breach.
• Zeabur, another hosting platform, got breached for the 2nd time in 3 months, exposing 321,810 accounts, and announced it’s shutting down for good.
Half these holes were found by AI, and the other half were exploited by it. Welcome to the future.
Sources: OfficeChai, Forkast, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Help Net Security / Writer: Julie
Marko Balac retweeted
everyone gets rich by being lucky.
the difference is some people make luck inevitable.
if you swing once, your odds are trash.
if you swing every single day for many years?
there’s basically 0% chance you never hit the jackpot.
same shit in business, money, life.
most people take 3 shots and quit, then blame “bad luck”
winners take 9,999 shots
and hit hole-in-one on 10,000th.
they work harder, practice longer, show up when it’s boring as hell.
they increase their probability so much.
that luck has no choice but to show up.
This is the sharpest take I’ve seen on the petrodollar’s quiet death. The dollar isn’t the problem - the rails are. PUSD’s non-freezable architecture seems to give the world dollar utility without the political tax. Bearer instrument for a multipolar age. Well played, @LordoftheRum
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Marko Balac retweeted
This is terrifying.
@AnthropicAI 's new unreleased Mythos model is so good at hacking, it found bugs in "every major operating system and web browser."
83.1% were exploited on first attempt. This thing is like COVID but for software. Actually apocalyptic in the wrong hands.
