The Jenkins Patch List Is 33 CVEs Long! Now, where do you start?
Jenkins shipped fixes for 33 CVEs, including paths to the Script Console, controller code execution, credential abuse and arbitrary file access.
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PowerShell, Python, scripts and technical automation.
Microsoft Calls KB5120998 “Non-Security.” It Still Changes Admin Privileges, Agent Isolation and Enterprise Automation.
Microsoft labels KB5120998 a non-security preview, but it changes administrator protection, AI process isolation, WMIC availability, post-quantum TLS and enterprise deployment behaviour.
The Repository Was Data. Amazon Kiro Treated It as Instructions.
A crafted workspace could steer Amazon Kiro into reading local data and triggering its transmission without a malicious user prompt. Amazon fixed the issue in Kiro IDE 0.8.140.
JetBrains Left TeamCity Unpatched and Put Cadence Source Code and Credentials Within Reach
JetBrains closed the Cadence investigation after finding attackers could have reached current storage containing source code and credentials. The investigation is over. The risk is not.
One Forgotten Header Undid Nuclio’s Security Patch
A crafted namespace header can bypass Nuclio's earlier command-injection fix and turn a local Docker dashboard into host-level root access.
Automatic Subtitle creation and translation (to English) with OpenAI’s Whisper
I’ve been having the issue over the last decades that the available subtitles from the well known sites are quite often not suitable for the videos that I have saved locally. Often downloaded videos, especially from YouTube, don’t have sub-titles,…
Automate downloading of Youtube Channels with YT-DLP and PowerShell
Script Update 12-04-2025 due to Chrome cookie changes (Changed to Firefox) and YT-DLP changes. Watching or listening to Youtube playlists can be very frustrating with all the ads that are being thrown at you and this seems to have gotten…
Re-Encode h264/x264 to h265 without noticeable quality loss with PowerShell and FFmpeg
Over the years I’ve gathered a lot of videos from various sources. Some of these are uncompressed and take up various gigabytes of space, each! Even though storage is getting cheaper, I don’t really want to spend €200,- (each) for…
Install Private-GPT 0.2 on Windows Server 2019/2022
Total time is about 30min, depending on your hardware and internet connection. This will install PrivateGPT on a Windows 2019/2022 machine and run everything (including the LLMs) locally. After installation, no further Internet connection required for most operations.
Folder backups with PowerShell
Why pay for an expensive backup solution in your home-lab when you can install PowerShell for free? The script below will handle simple backups for you. You only have to add it to the Windows Scheduler or create a Cron…