Saturday, 24 October 2026

They do this, they do that

So basically today PHP got two critical bugs
that let anyone run code on your server
without even logging in which is bad and then
the details leaked before the patch was even out
which is worse and it works on
WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Larave
and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix
so the NSA was like
"take your system offline"
and the FBI was like "take your system offline"
and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline"
and then the Prime Minister of Japan
The actual Prime Minister
posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people
to take their system offline so everyone took their system offline
like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline
and the Dutch parliament went offline
and the Port of Rotterdam went offline
and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites
and Wikipedia went down, and http://Archive.org went down
and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down
and the University of Vienna's webmail went
for some reason and that's just PHP
Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0
which is the highest score they give out
for a bug that's been there since 2014
so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years
and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer
and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images
including latest and you didn't even have to import it
just installing it was enough
and it's the second time this year
and then Railway paused every deployment
on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables
so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there
TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around
inside with stolen credentials
for basically a month
And an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes
and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months
and is just shutting down like the whole company
and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass
and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited
and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords
and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs
and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident
and Japan has been in an official
state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9
which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post
Oh and eMudhra a certificate authority
that's issued over 60 million certificates
whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are
was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long
and one of them was 4 just 4
and the others were like 66 and 237
Anyway it's Wednesday


https://x.com/fiveoutofnine/status/2113045722744717360

Friday, 23 October 2026

Heavy Metal Thunder

Would love to take a sledgehammer
and crack a nut with it
crack that nut right up

Just smash the smithereens
out of the nut
see the kernel explode
in all directions

Heavy duty steel hammer
send the shell hurtling
solid wood handle, comfortable feel
pulverize nut after nut after nut

Nutmeat
BISH
Endocarp, pericarp
BASH
Seed coat, hard shell, husk
BOSH

Smash the smugness out of the nuts
with my heavy-trade hammer
sledge it, bang it, smash it up
take them all down a peg or two

Monday, 19 October 2026

Premonition

Michael Crane
not the actor as he always said
with great patience came
out with us on a Monday mission
and after his customary
six pints

Stumbled into a boy
by the station
silent
shanked
took a sudden left, but MC was
always one for the Irish slash French
departures. We thought no more about it until
he turned up not to beat about the
bush dead

Rando poked, didn't realise the devolved
devalued state of his organs
result: immunity to pain
alert mechanism. Long cold night -

He laid him down to sleep
his associates long since
for reasons dispersed

Lifeblood gently seeping into
onto a Selling England by the Pound
Royal Scam park bench

References our friend
Michael Crane of many
a Monday mission
would have appreciated


Friday, 16 October 2026

Small, hardy breed

In a field somewhere west of Dinton Pastures
The midday sun scorching my nylon 'trackies'
Six Li'l Sebastians barrel toward us
Their manes waggling with glee
We welcome them with giddiness.
Both parties are thrilled to encounter
The other after so long in their respective
Enclosures. Unsure, I pat their solid sides and
They shake their toothsome heads in joy.
My secret friend approaches from afar - 'Look
What we have found' I will say.
These ponies are surely ours now, or for
As many minutes as they will tolerate
Our city ways. Maybe offer my fruit pot.
Slowly the novelty shrinks and they graze
on tufts and thickets. An earlier admirer
compliments me on said trackies, an
Unlikely item to select but beggars.
The other has arrived now but we've lost the
Dressing room, the tubby tribe have returned to
Their games and we to ours. The time for
Blessings was candle brief and miracles
Are for the dumbest of beasts.

After A Blessing, James Wright 


Thursday, 15 October 2026

Bundle of fun, 1984

I don't like the table to
peter out
at this end

We haven't got any more
flowers have we?

We have got my splendid gold salver

Gold salver

Can you fetch my gold salver
in my study

Splendid gold salver
in my study

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

My feet (remix)

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Monday, 12 October 2026

10k blood-brain time barrier

Circling Wembley Stadium cee eight nine kay
endocannabinoids begin to fizz up
and Start Me Up thumps from within
to pump up the runners

Just as it did 44 count them years ago
at this approximate location
original architecture, with a (see
if you can spot him) much younger
version of me standing in the centre circle
with my old friends
we was just nippers
watching the even then old Stones
combined age nine hundred
playing one of their new ones. And

I'll never be a grown man, and I'll
never cry, but I will be
dead and I will oh come on now
there's not far to go, we're

Not finished yet, there's still
time for one last push
to the finish line