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3I/ATLAS’s , who are you? (4th Aug 2025)
Quote: Hawking advised against active attempts to contact alien civilizations, which could be dangerous, arguing that an advanced alien race could see the same bacteria as humans, which could lead to catastrophic consequences if they discovered Earth. Ref: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11462274/ Background: 3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar comet discovered…
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CVE-2025-54574: About Squid. Stay alert! (4 Aug 2025)
NVD Published Date: 08/01/2025 NVD Last Modified: 08/01/2025 Preface: While HTTP/1.0 is largely obsolete, HTTP/1.1 remains in widespread use, despite the newer HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols. Though HTTP/1.1 has been updated in recent years, its core functionality is still foundational for much of the web. Does processing Uniform Resource Names consume memory? Yes, processing Uniform…
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CVE-2025-54576: Design weakness in OAuth2-Proxy 7.10.0 and below (1 Aug 2025)
Preface: Regular Expressions are efficient in that one line of code can save you writing hundreds of lines. But they’re normally slower (even pre-compiled) than thoughtful hand written code simply due to the overhead. Generally the simpler the objective the worse Regular Expressions are. They’re better for complex operations. Background: OAuth2 Proxy is used to…