2025s on cpus.me

A quick first look at macOS PowerLogs

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:58:41 +0100

Intro

Hi there!

As I mentioned in my previous post - Latest goodies October #1 - there were a few interesting presentations at OBTS v8.0 which motivated me to learn more about macOS and *OS platforms. One of the most interesting ones was Sarah Edwards’s - The Power of Powerlogs. All presentations, slides and videos are on OBTS - Talks page. I was aware of macOS’ powerlogs (most probably from Sarah’s blog), however I never spent time investigating them in detail and learning about their structure. This time it seems like a good opportunity to do so.

Latest goodies October #1

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:35:17 +0100

Interesting readings

I’m Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

Nice article about browser hacking for reverse engineering and different approaches to reverse engineering JavaScript code. Worth reading! There are some other interesting articles on the same blog on related topics. See: https://nullpt.rs

Some useful tools mentioned in the blogpost:

The well known JavaScript deobfuscator powering deobfuscate.io: https://github.com/ben-sb/javascript-deobfuscator
electron-browser-shell

First time I saw the article it was on HN. There are a couple of interesting comments throughout the comments section. One of them mentions an instrumented version of V8 JavaScript Engine, which I found intriguing and worth exploring further: https://github.com/wspr-ncsu/visiblev8

Latest goodies September #2

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:44:50 +0200

A few things worth mentioning from the past weeks.

Interesting readings

detections.ai

Not really a reading reference but an interesting resource for detection and response practitioners. At a glance, it is

Community Inspired. AI Enhanced. Better Detections.

It is possible to filter detections by rule language, category, platform and more. I find platform labels and MITRE ATT&CK labels very useful for quickly extracting detection rules for specific platforms and techniques that align with your threat model and might enhance your detection capabilities.

Latest goodies September #1

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:08:27 +0200

A few things worth mentioning from the past weeks.

Interesting readings

Interesting podcasts

Why ML Needs a New Programming Language

2025s on cpus.me

A quick first look at macOS PowerLogs

Intro

Latest goodies October #1

Interesting readings

I’m Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

Latest goodies September #2

Interesting readings

Latest goodies September #1

Interesting readings

Interesting podcasts

Interesting videos