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August 3, 2022

August 3, 2022

@mikko

@mikko

China is rising as an online superpower, a thread:

Aug 3, 2022

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Filip Dragovic

@filip_dragovic

Spooler service disabled, RPC filters installed to prevent PetitPotam and File Server VSS Agent Service not installed but you still want to relay DC authentication to ADCS? Don't worry MS-DFSNM have your back ;) github.com/Wh04m1001/DFSC…

Jun 18, 2022

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dave karpf

@davekarpf

By age 40, with your training complete, you should have vanquished those friends, claimed their businesses, money, and fitness, and built a throne out of their skulls. https://t.co/dghrC7SH7s

Aug 2, 2022

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FREYA COMIX🏳️‍⚧️

@JenPallante

Not sure who needs to be reminded of this but: PeeWee Herman was not arrested masturbating at a public theater. Not like you think. He was at an adult theater (where masturbation is encouraged) and it was a sting operation targeting queers.

Aug 1, 2022

Legend!

Sarah Buckley

@Sarahgbeee

@JenPallante He also requested that the vampire he played in Buffy, Amilyn, was to look like his mug shot which was the most badassssss thing ever. Ruebens is a freaking boss

Aug 1, 2022

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Chad Read

@squirrel74wkgn

Well, this is awkward. Nobody else in the office dressed up like Martin Luther King Jr. today.

Jan 19, 2015

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TIL: Exploiting Python co_local, a thing you can do.

leo60228

@leo60228

@louispilfold @eevee @whitequark @pcwalton github.com/DavidBuchanan3… for a PoC github.com/python/cpython… for a source on bytecode being "allowed" to cause memory unsafety github.com/python/cpython… for an issue from last week that hasn't been closed but has multiple people saying it's working as intended

Out of bounds co_* tuple access is allowed · Issue #95222 · python/cpython

When a LOAD_* instruction needs to load from a co_*s tuple, it can segfault and crash the program when the index is out of bounds. Examples: eval(compile('a', '<string>', &#39...

Aug 2, 2022

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raz

@leadinscientist

This attack against Nomad was something, I've never seen before. People started replicating the attack after a few minutes, while the initial attacker drained out the pool systematically. At some point, random dudes with ENS names were getting a million USDC per transactions.

Aug 1, 2022

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Rachel Tobac

@RachelTobac

*ANNOUNCEMENT* Presenting: the trailer for our new 🎶MUSICAL🎶 & spoken Security Awareness Videos! After the infosec sea shanty, dozens of teams DM’d me saying "The song worked! MFA usage up, reporting way up, pls make more songs!" So we got to work & you all it's finally here!🤖

Aug 2, 2022

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Kenn White

@kennwhite

Reading this @dangoodin001 piece & it occurs to me what a strange path we've taken: In 10-20 yrs (or 50, or never) we *might* have practical quantum computers, so let's roll out replacement PQ crypto now. Which could be trivially broken today, on a laptop.

Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

Leave it to mathematicians to muck up what looked like an impressive new algorithm.

Aug 2, 2022

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New AC paper.

Hackers, Hoodies, and Helmets: Technology and the changing face of Russian private military contractors - Atlantic Council

This issue brief explores the technological capabilities of Russian private military companies and how they are used across various types of missions in support of and in parallel with Russian policy.

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Moose

@LitMoose

I hate how accurate this is.

Jul 30, 2022

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Alessandro Mantovani

@elmant0

And this finally concludes my Ph.D. journey -- my dissertation "An Analysis of Human-in-the-loop Approaches for Binary Analysis Automation" is officially available at:

An analysis of human-in-the-loop approaches for binary analysis automation | EURECOM

Aug 2, 2022

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Love it — anti piracy messaging increases piracy.

Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy

Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology

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Spironolactone Agnew (she/her)

@SBElikeswords

JK Rowling is Elon Musk for cis women, in the same way that Joe Rogan is Oprah for cis men

Aug 1, 2022

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rqu

@rqu50

I wrote a tool to check master key configuration on palo alto firewalls and so far I haven't run into any instances of people actually changing the master key from p1a2l3o4a5l6t7o8

check if a PAN firewall is using the default master key when globalprotect is enabled

check if a PAN firewall is using the default master key when globalprotect is enabled - checkmk.py

Aug 2, 2022

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Kristen Bottema-Beutel

@KristenBott

I asked my 11 yo to help me write my vacation away message, and she suggested “I AM ON VACATION SO YOUR EMAIL WILL BE DELETED”

Aug 2, 2022

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Stephen Lacy

@stephenlacy

I am uncovering what seems to be a massive widespread malware attack on @github. - Currently over 35k repositories are infected - So far found in projects including: crypto, golang, python, js, bash, docker, k8s - It is added to npm scripts, docker images and install docs

Aug 3, 2022

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elle

@notfunnyelle

my sister: why do you delete so many tweets? me: sometimes you don't know something's really stupid until you send it out into the world my mother: *staring at me just a beat too long*

Aug 3, 2022

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Tansu YEĞEN

@TansuYegen

Gentleman Ringo Starr

Aug 2, 2022

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Florian Roth ⚡

@cyb3rops

Thanks to @github for removing the crime scenes #MyJinoRu

Aug 3, 2022
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