Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.15.0-302.167.6 - ice: Add a per-VF limit on number of FDIR filters Ahmed Zaki Orabug: 36964088 CVE-2024-42291 - scsi: lpfc: Fix a possible null pointer dereference Huai-Yuan Liu Orabug: 36964437 CVE-2024-43821 - power: reset: pwr-mlxbf: support graceful shutdown Asmaa Mnebhi Orabug: 37208029 -...

Hacking together a USB-C charger for a cheap Chromebook

The era of USB-C has come. The other day I threw all other cables into a box, and bought a set of USB-C to USB-C, Lightning, and microUSB cables. USB-C chargers around the house, USB-C PD power bank, even a nice small USB-C dock that works with the Nintendo Switch if the charger can do the right...

Adding Backdoors at the Chip Level

Interesting research into undetectably adding backdoors into computer chips during manufacture: "Stealthy dopant-level hardware Trojans: extended version," also available here: Abstract: In recent years, hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of governments and industry as well as the scientif...