The dangers of stablecoins

This article is an on-site version of our Chris Giles on Central Banks newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jay Powell was “one of the dumbest, and most destructive,…

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Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows kernel

Summary Check Point Research (CPR) identified a security vulnerability in January 2025 affecting the new Rust-based kernel component of the Graphics Device Interface (commonly known as GDI) in Windows. We promptly reported this issue to Microsoft and they fixed the vulnerability starting with OS Build 26100.4202 in the KB5058499 update preview released on May 28th 2025. In the following sections, we…

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The End of Handwriting | WIRED

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on…

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Laravel Pulse 1.3.1 – Arbitrary Code Injection

#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Exploit Title: Laravel Pulse 1.3.1 – Arbitrary Code Injection # Author: Mohammed Idrees Banyamer (@banyamer_security) # GitHub: https://github.com/mbanyamer # Date: 2025-06-06 # Tested on: Laravel Pulse v1.2.0 / Ubuntu 22.04 / Apache2 # CVE: CVE-2024-55661 # Type: Remote Code Execution (via Arbitrary Code Injection) # Platform: PHP (Laravel Livewire) # Author Country:…

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Job Security Not Falling And Layoff Risk Improving

Professionals leaving office after layoff. getty Job security in the U.S. economy is not in crisis. That’s news to my favorite artificial intelligence app, which confidently repeated the usual story about a long-term decline in job security. But the hard data show little change in average length of time on the job. And over decades,…

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OctoSQL & Vulnerability Data – SANS Internet Storm Center

As an avid daily reader of TLDR Information Security I benefit twofold. First, I gain interesting insights and recommendations regarding launches and tools, where I first learned about OctoSQL. Second, concerning vulnerability details inevitably land in my inbox on a near daily basis. Aside from my recommendation to join the TLDR InfoSec mailing list, diary readers also benefit twofold…

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