Bálint Magyar
Bálint Magyar
Bálint Magyar
My name is Bálint Magyar (they/them), and I’m a hacker, designer, musician, artist, and all-around creative person based in Budapest, Hungary.
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This past few months (maybe even years) have been reset after reset after reset for me. I don't at all have to stretch my imagination to find poetic parallels between this spring season, moving apartments, turbulence at work, or the...
Career After close to two decades in various disclipines of design (most recently prior to this change, in UX design leadership) I’ve pivoted my career into cybersecurity in early 2025. More specifically I’m now a full-time ethical...
Career After close to two decades in various disclipines of design (most recently prior to this change, in UX design leadership) I’ve pivoted my career into cybersecurity in early 2025. More specifically I’m now a full-time ethical...
I wrote this some time ago while on a train; didn't feel like posting it in the moment, for some reason. I’m on a train. I’ve been itching to write for a while, but it’s difficult to discern whether I actually have something to say, or...
tl;dr Tested versions: Google Web Designer 16.3.0.0407 (released April 2025) After my recent discovery of two client-side remote code execution vulnerabilities in Google Web Designer (previously disclosed in my articles earlier this...
I didn’t anticipate this becoming a food blog, but after coffee and a certain high value smoothie, here I am writing about mangos. They’re great. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Jokes aside though. I did not have a chance to fully...
We don’t cook much, and so we don’t plan ahead much, so our pantry and freezer tend to be a mish-mash of various versatile ingredients. Every once in a while, I crave a smoothie — a genre of food that lends itself well to our, uh,...
40 minute video. In May 2025 I had the opportunity to present at BSides Budapest 2025, an annual local conference, part of the BSides global network of independent information security conferences. Download the recording (2.1GB MP4...
In the spirit of posting casually, I wanted to write a few words about coffee. We've had our Lelit Mara X for a few years now. Even though I've gotten fairly okay at making milk-based coffee drinks, 9 times out of 10, my drink of choice...
I've been meaning to (re)start casual blogging for quite some time now, probably decades at this point. My recent experiences writing articles on cybersecurity made me reconnect with this desire, and I mostly had the framework in place...
tl;dr Tested versions: Google Web Designer 16.1.0.0530 (released cca. June 2024) and 16.2.0.0128 (released February 28, 2025) This issue is tracked as CVE-2025-4613, and has been fixed in version 16.3.0.0407, released cca. April 19,...
tl;dr Tested version: Google Web Designer 16.1.0.0530 (released cca. June 2024) This issue is tracked as CVE-2025-1079, and has been fixed in version 16.2.0.0128, released February 28, 2025. In November 2024 I’ve discovered a...
tl;dr When the stars stylesheets align just right, it’s possible to escalate a harmless content injection issue to a marginally less harmless one by using certain Unicode characters to stand in for pixels in a QR code. (For fun, not...