infosec.exchange on Hacker News

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io(infosec.exchange)

152 points by speckx 4 months ago | 55 comments

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story(infosec.exchange)

515 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 220 comments

Mastodon post noting a matplotlib maintainer says quotes attributed to him in an Ars Technica article were fabricated, apparently AI hallucinations; the story was pulled.

Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub(infosec.exchange)

29 points by N19PEDL2 1 year ago | 7 comments

Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account(infosec.exchange)

154 points by tech234a 1 year ago | 144 comments

Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install(infosec.exchange)

137 points by luu 1 year ago | 41 comments

Sure. Let Adobe AI scan all of your documents. What could go wrong?(infosec.exchange)

32 points by croes 2 years ago | 5 comments

Darknet bazaar Incognito Market is extorting former users(infosec.exchange)

21 points by kryptiskt 2 years ago | 0 comments

German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app(infosec.exchange)

247 points by zoobab 2 years ago | 156 comments

In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127(infosec.exchange)

15 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 8 comments

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow(infosec.exchange)

957 points by luu 3 years ago | 247 comments

A Mastodon thread about a professor's slow SPARC workstation; the visible post is John Regehr sharing a screenshot of the xroach X11 cockroach program's README.

UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k(infosec.exchange)

193 points by rf15 3 years ago | 152 comments