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March 3, 2024

March 3, 2024

March 3, 2024

Updates: good news, I sent second section to the editor a day early. Bad news, now the third section is due on March 4.

Teaser: after I submit on the 14th, I’ll share it publicly.


Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp


Ignore the white house.
Use gets() and strcpy().
Be a man.https://t.co/Aqfh4YBHDH

— AIfredo Ortega (@ortegaalfredo) March 1, 2024


One of the many lessons from @thegrugq's "OPSEC for Hackers" (HITB 2012) stuck with me, and I shared it in an OPSEC training in April 2022: "Never let anyone get into a position to blackmail you".

(Especially state officers and influential businesspeople/politicians). https://t.co/gEUkcMgykW pic.twitter.com/xEX2DqA4KM

— JT (@johntroony) March 1, 2024

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: In P Diddy’s recent lawsuit It is alleged believed that Puff Daddy has hidden cameras all throughout his house in Jeffrey Epstein style blackmail honeypot.

Sean Combs is also accused of trafficking underaged women. This lawsuit also claims Diddy’s girlfriend… pic.twitter.com/avpKakOiwx

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 1, 2024


Here’s a thought. Not only is lack of competition in a market bad for consumers in general, it also creates a single point of failure. This is a critical problem for modern digitised society where the computers that companies depend on to function aren’t secured against the idle hands of Siberian teenagers.

US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack | Ars Technica

Patients having trouble getting lifesaving meds have the AlphV crime group to thank.


Interesting project attempting to reverse engineering the precompiled Wi-Fi stack of ESP32 SoC to recreate an open source version

Part 1: https://t.co/ZGtu0ZIaAk
Part 2: https://t.co/tTTLNn8D6a
Repo: https://t.co/25ezvSu2Fw#esp32 #infosec pic.twitter.com/RJuin3Xkv1

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) March 3, 2024


"Former politician accused of helping international spies was recruited while serving in parliament".https://t.co/Md36npatR1

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) March 3, 2024
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