A puppet made me cry and all I got was this t-shirt

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Anyone who spoke with me in the last several weeks has had to deal with me loudly waiting in anticipation for the long-awaited "Project Hail Mary" movie adaptation. I read and cried over the book by Andy Weir, who's also the author o...

The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Fails to Answer

The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA

This is just crazy: Scientists dont yet know for sure why octopuses, and other shell-less cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish, are such prolific editors. Researchers are debating whether this form of genetic editing gave cephalopods an evolutionary leg or tentacle up or whether the editing...

Malware from Space

Since you don't have enough to worry about, here's a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity. Abstract: A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with...

Aliens & Farm - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Aliens & Farm published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: tremulous-1.2.0-0.4.beta1.fc17

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with ele ments of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being...

Rebellion Aliens vs Predator 2.22 - Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Rebellion Aliens vs Predator 2.22 - Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40041/info Rebellion Aliens vs Predator is prone to multiple memory-corruption vulnerabilities. Successfully exploiting these issues allows remote attackers to cause...

Rebellion Aliens vs Predator 2.22 - Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40041/info Rebellion Aliens vs Predator is prone to multiple memory-corruption vulnerabilities. Successfully exploiting these issues allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-service conditions. Due to the nature of these issues, arbitrary code...