February 3, 2024
February 3, 2024
Some classic hacker folklore here.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixa.htmlReally insightful article. Compares the “fall of Rome” to the “fall of Twitter.”
On successor states and websites – Going Medieval
This month, like everyone online, I have been watching with a mixture of chagrin and schaudenfruede as platform capitalism digs itself into ever more complex and narrow burrows. By this I mean it’s…
I’m constantly impressed with how OSINT capabilities rival top secret government programs of a few decades ago.
Favourite part: they used satellite images of the Russian artillery museum to figure out what the different types looked like in satellite imagery!
Related:
How a Surge in Satellites Will Revolutionize Intelligencehttps://t.co/g1YhjPASMB
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) February 3, 2024
Dystopian. This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees & also the time spent in the shop per customer. ☕️ pic.twitter.com/6ZecOq9ZXA
— H0W_THlNGS_W0RK (@HowThingsWork_) February 2, 2024
This is interesting, but I would not be surprised if stuff like this ends up giving managers distorted views of individual productivity that actually makes management worse. https://t.co/9LmDuaiTlq
— Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ (@besttrousers) February 2, 2024
I remember a story of early remote work during covid and a guy said he got chewed out for always being "away" on teams because it was on a laptop next to him so he installed a mouse jiggler and he was praised for improving his metrics while doing the exact same amount of work https://t.co/Kul6e1Hbg8
— Sam (ABeardedPanda) (@ABeardedPanda) February 2, 2024
Did a wolf write this https://t.co/6JVdcPmhSq
— Erica Buist (@ericabuist) February 2, 2024
Should more British homes be built using straw? https://t.co/vQhHUPDWRE
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 2, 2024
Australian Federal Police spent over twelve months driving a 13yo autistic boy’s fixation with Islamic State, actively encouraging him, and then waiting until he turned 14 to charge him.
— David Shoebridge (@DavidShoebridge) February 2, 2024
All done after his parents came to them for help. Appalling. https://t.co/CD9Dlx4ltZ
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | Ars Technica https://t.co/TrQRTGImFA
— switched (@switch_d) February 3, 2024
Excellent blog post by @_lkmidas introducing modprobe_path overwriting technique for exploiting Linux kernelhttps://t.co/LSBxe36fmE#Linux #kernel #infosec pic.twitter.com/pn001xBjzp
— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) February 2, 2024
CISA Security by Design alert for SOHO routers.. the team at @NCSC highlighted this morning that from April 2025, any SOHO router provided or managed by a ISP in the UK will be legally required to have these properties 🔥 https://t.co/2CGz2CZp7p
— Ollie Whitehouse (@ollieatnowhere) February 2, 2024
PRC-sponsored #VoltTyphoon threat actors are compromising small office/home office (SOHO) routers by exploiting software defects. Manufacturers are urged to adopt @CISAgov’s #SecurebyDesign principles during software design to protect users. 👉 https://t.co/ZBo7c8Qanp pic.twitter.com/cVhyyLV3vu
— CISA Cyber (@CISACyber) January 31, 2024
CVE-2024-23832: Mastodon: Remote user impersonation and takeover. https://t.co/i3gzQVkcDm
— Open Source Security mailing list (@oss_security) February 2, 2024
The Mastodon project has published a GitHub advisory for a high-severity issue which allows user impersonation and account takeover. CVSS 3.1 is given as 9.4/10.
The world's first(?) kernel exploit for Vision Pro- on launch day! pic.twitter.com/9rVtaSmbei
— Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx) February 3, 2024
I remember loving finding VPN appliances when I was doing network penetration tests in the early 2000's because they were linux boxes running badly written web apps that yielded massive privileges. That doesn't seem to have changed one iota...
— Dino A. Dai Zovi (@dinodaizovi) February 1, 2024
I wrote a piece in @lawfare today arguing that, after costly misses on advanced chips and 5G, it's time for the US to level up its analysis of long-term tech trends to better anticipate threats and secure America's technology leadership. (1/7) https://t.co/iwPP2UK5oV
— Vivek Chilukuri (@vivekchil) February 2, 2024
So, the rumors were true:
— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) February 2, 2024
AnyDesk has been breached.
Announced on Friday afternoon East Coast U.S. time/Friday night in the U.K.
Like all responsible vendors looking to keep their customers best informed do.😐 https://t.co/LJ7JVw2Bp3
The playbook works once again. AnyDesk breached, Crowdstrike doing IR, announced Friday at 10pm UK time... again.https://t.co/To05xAJ9bu https://t.co/wMwIBK0vYN
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) February 2, 2024
Lenovo X1 Carbon Bitlocker Key Sniffing any% Speedrun
— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) February 2, 2024
(42.9 seconds) pic.twitter.com/O1dI2H8S2R
happy 45th birthday to the Cox-Zucker machine pic.twitter.com/XqBzSpPPUO
— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) February 2, 2024