Daily Archives: 2025-08-05

Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

Posted on 2025-08-05 by pappp

Source: The Register

Article note: Somehow every dedicated hardware secure enclave mechanism seems to turn out worse than just using platform software.

Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?

black hat  Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos.…

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

Posted on 2025-08-05 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I've played with Proxmox a bit recently, It's a pretty nice bit of tooling that seems to have made a lot of good decisions about the underlying stack (...Debian is forever...), and business model and such. A few weird choices and awkward corners, but overall really pleasing. I might take an afternoon to roll my test box to the new release, just to experience the migration tools.
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