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CrowdSec traces repository theft to TanStack compromise

CrowdSec has said a supply-chain attack involving compromised TanStack npm packages led to the unauthorised copying of about 170 private GitHub repositories after credentials linked to a departing employee were exposed. The cybersecurity company said its investigation, completed with assistance from GitHub, traced the breach to an OAuth token obtained after the employee’s account was compromised…

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Never installable

For three days of real-device testing, the app worked, or seemed to. Every test passed. Every review came back clean. On a real phone, it had never once been installable, and nothing had ever said so.

  • App seemed functional during testing but never installable on real phones.
  • Barcode scanning failed due to Open Food Facts database limitations.
  • App reduced dietitians' workload from 120 lookups to 35 searches per week.

Caddy 2.11's default post-quantum key exchange sends six times more handshake bytes

Caddy 2.10 switched on a post-quantum key exchange by default back in April, and I'd assumed, without checking, that "post-quantum" meant "slower". I ran Caddy 2.11.4 against a modern TLS client and measured the handshake instead of guessing.

  • Caddy 2.11 default post-quantum key exchange uses hybrid group X25519MLKEM768
  • Hybrid group increases handshake bytes six times compared to classical X25519
  • Increased byte cost may impact mobile-heavy audiences and slow networks

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