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Installing Swift toolchain on Debian is a no-brainer. Users can either pick up swiftly or unpack the current tarball, and if you are running a supported Debian version—e.g. Debian 12 Bookworm at the time of this writing—then you are good to go. 
 This article is about running the latest Swift toolchain on the current stable Debian release: Trixie .
fashion is a Swift command-line interface to traverse a file hierarchy and compute or match popular hash digests.
The project is hosted on Codeberg and natively supports: 
 
 CryptoKit hash functions: SHA-2 (SHA256 by default), insecure SHA-1 and MD5 
 fuzzy hash functions: ssdeep and TLSH as submodules with Swift C bridging 
 searching for multiple digests with any algo and a…
I’d love to spare you the agony of a biography, but you might want to know I started with computers on a Macintosh SE running System 7, programming musical keyboards, then drifted into pirating, debugging, reversing, and developing software 🏴☠️ 
 As a security researcher, I notably discovered RSPlug aka the DNSChanger variant for Mac, uncovered the Flashback botnet (named after the…
On reading the latest Security Advisories for macOS, a few friends noticed I recently went through a career change: 
 
 Sandbox 
We would like to acknowledge Arnaud Abbati for their assistance. 
 
 And, for once I can share what I do, I am certainly not going to miss the opportunity! 
 Threat or Thread As far as I remember, I always kept an eye wide open on live threats to…