Intigriti17 · 2026-02-16 00:00
Chaining in action: techniques, terminology, and real-world impact on business
What you will learn in this blog What chaining is and how combining lower-severity issues can create a high-impact security risk. Key chaining techniques and terminology, such as pivoting, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. How chaining is identified and prioritized in practice, including the role of PTaaS and how researchers can use chaining to uncover critical attack paths and guide next steps for business prioritization. What is chaining? The term chaining, which is also used int…
bernsteinbear.com12 · 2026-02-16 00:00
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer
Another entry in the Toy Optimizer series . Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time! We were careful to mind object aliasing: we separated our heap information into alias classes based on what offset the reads/writes referenced. This way, if we didn’t know if object a and b aliased, we could at least know that different offsets would never alias (assuming our objects ...
matduggan.com8 · 2026-02-16 12:05
I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
Until recently the LLM tools I’ve tried have been, to be frank, worthless. Copilot was best at writing extremely verbose comments. Gemini would turn a 200 line script into a 700 line collection of gibberish. It was easy for me to, more or less, ignore LLMs for being