KazukiLabs NewsLetter Vol. 3 Num. 15
Technically WE didn't invade your privacy, we just bought it.
In this week’s release, we have US still going to hell in a handbasket, russia being russia trying to demand people to bend to their will, netflix decides to be even shittier than it already is in a attempt to try not lose money, new macbook air being literally a hot product, bad guys keep stealing good guys tools and residential proxy service unsurprisingly, turning out to be quite shady.
~Kazu
News of Interests
South Carolina lawmakers want to banish abortion talk from the Internet
Kazu: i don't normally cover general news that is not related somehow to my industry, especially ones that is in another country like US, so i will keep this short and clear as a non-US person regarding the bills, relatable bills and so forth:
FUCK OFF DIPSHITS!!!
Tags: Politics, US, News
Netflix loses 970,000 subscribers, says ads and new fees are key to recovery
Kazu: Netflix's boardroom: hey, we are losing subs, quick, need to come up with how to recover!, ah, i know, let's shove more ads in people faces and add new fees, that will sure help
Spoilers: it won't.
Tags: netflix, Technology, Entertainment, News
Russia fines Google $370M for refusing to bend to Putin’s war propaganda
Kazu: Google doesn't want to play ball with Putin's propaganda demands and now they try to fine google for it. like, i hate google as much as the next person, but the world is literally sanctioning the F out of the country and most non-russia(and even some russian ones) have already pulled out of the country, google included, so any further demand by the country can't be seen as anything else but a laughable attempt to try get people to still bend to their will.
Tags: russia, google, fines, News
The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-data/
Kazu: I would say I was shocked that a US government security agency such as DHS had managed to scheme themselves access to phone related tracking through some loophole, but honestly, I stopped being surprised about the things the govermental agencies in the US tries to pull by this point and just somewhat expect shit like this.
Still, it's clearly not good and hopefully, if the ACLU bill manage to pass that are intended to stop stuff like this then that would go a long way, although it would still allow exceptions, and we all know the US agencies are masters with creating valid exceptions out of thin air, so not sure exactly how much it will help.
Tags: DHS, Privacy, Tracking, Phone-Tracking, FOIA
Writeups, projects, etc
A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/
Kazu: a interesting article about the long running residential proxy service known as 911 and it's shady current and past history
Tags: VPN, Proxy, InfoSec, Privacy, 911
Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
Kazu: C++ are widely preferred language for when you want something to be as efficient with as little overhead as possible and as much control as possible. sadly, since its inception a long time ago, it has suffered from things such as technical debt as it tried to improve upon C but still be as compatible with it as possible. This however, like Windows, caused it to have a lot of legacy stuff that should properly be removed/changed but won't be as that would make it less backwards compatible both with older C++ code but also "C".
This is where the new language "Carbon" comes in, it's still in the test phase, but it's designed to be an improvement upon C++ without all the legacy stuff and complexity but still being largely compatible with C++.
Tags: programming, C++, Carbon, Project, GitHub
M2 MacBook Air teardown reveals accelerometer, minimal heat management
Kazu:With the M2 MacBook Air being out, it naturally mean that is not long before ifixit are on it with their teardowns. and it turns out that the MacBook is still as un-upgradeable as you can get it, which is not exactly something new, but this one seems to be also without almost any form of heat managements which sure are something to worry about, specially consider more and more places experience way hotter weather than normally and without a decent heatsink of any kind, it's likely gonna fry itself quickly.
Tags:Apple, MacBook, Teardown, ifixit, Technology
Analyzing Penetration-Testing Tools That Threat Actors are using
Kazu: what defines if a tool is bad or good is normally how it's used and there's no short supply of bad actors who would love to make your complete legal tool part of their arsenal if they see they can help them achieve their goals, and in this article, we look closer at two of such tools which are "impacket" and "Responder" which are usually used as part of legit pentesting.
Tags: APT, InfoSec, Tools Abuse, Malware, Research