November 27, 2023
November 27, 2023
This is an incredibly awesome development.
In the latest release of GrapheneOS, you can now enable hardware memory tagging for all user installed apps on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro to make them substantially harder to exploit. This is particularly useful for apps like Signal and WhatsApp.https://t.co/AEExOIk381
— GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) November 26, 2023
Napoleon at Waterloo. pic.twitter.com/SZ5FstXsDr
— Simon Leeson (@SimonLeeson1) November 25, 2023
Some old tech for #StandingStoneSunday - Axe-polishing grooves on one of the entrance Sarsen stones at West Kennet #Neolithic chambered long barrow, #Avebury, Wiltshire
— Dr Toby Driver (@Toby_Driver1) November 26, 2023
📷 My own, September 2023 pic.twitter.com/Syfc6gExD0
If the Olympian Gods ever sent each other Christmas cards... https://t.co/b1DzAqWnrL
— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) November 26, 2023
Welcome to Norfolk. pic.twitter.com/do9Z1whZeV
— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) November 25, 2023
Today Security researchers Samuel Barnes-Thornton, @TheCyberJoe, and Awais Rashid disclosed a vulnerability in cow tracking collars. They were able to both read and inject animal captivity activity data
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) November 27, 2023
They're hackin' the cows 😭😭😭
More info: https://t.co/0wmymRz1QN pic.twitter.com/jI29mnGTkZ
Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop pic.twitter.com/wqYmlZQmSN
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) November 27, 2023
This week on the blog! A look at the rather unusual Roman heavy javelin, the pilum, and its place in Rome's rather unusual infantry tactical system!https://t.co/sl8HotvJ5l
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) November 27, 2023
Do you think a red teamer / Pentester should go out of scope?
— mRr3b00t (@UK_Daniel_Card) November 25, 2023
There are things on the floor that will crash or corrupt from a port scan, if you’re in the right privileged source range. They start calculating losses every 60 seconds. Do NOT fucking go out of scope. https://t.co/VxIXc1PfZv
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) November 26, 2023
As someone who has infamously gone out of scope and accidentally robbed the wrong bank and barely avoided prison time in a foreign country!
— Jayson E. Street 💙 🤗💛 Hacker - Helper - Human (@jaysonstreet) November 27, 2023
NEVER SCREW UP SO BAD THAT YOU GO OUT OF SCOPE!!! ☠️ https://t.co/vGC4mWUKVF
Most people today think that the ancient Greeks thought that Persephone was in the underworld during the winter, but the ancient Greek agricultural and religious calendars suggest it was actually the summer.#myths #classics #GreekMythology #Persephonehttps://t.co/O5kyJb7V2P
— Spencer McDaniel (@SpenceMcDaniel) November 26, 2023
Yup! Both Greece and Rome are growing 'winter wheat.' I laid out a primer on ancient agriculture back on my blog a while back (https://t.co/lMfzPC5hnp). Fascinating how our distance from agriculture makes it harder to parse the writings of societies that were so agricultural.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) November 27, 2023
Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukrainian MoD obtained documents from Russia's civil aviation agency "as a result of a successful complex special operation in cyberspace"
— Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) November 26, 2023
It's quite rare that a state openly takes credit for an offensive cyber actionhttps://t.co/55tZCrYpbG
Yet another potentially big cyber story from Russia
— Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) March 29, 2022
Rosaviatsiya (Federal Air Transport Agency) reportedly got its e-document management system hacked over a weekend losing many files and had to switch to paper-based workflow
Best report so far https://t.co/1HJFLUQ7M9
Almost forgot: an uncofirmed and questionable claim that some kind of a virus that transmits information to the United States was delivered on a flash drive to the Russian civial aviation agencyhttps://t.co/lwSWKq7nFm
— Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) June 20, 2023
Who says amateur radio is dead? https://t.co/IfAKNMc52K
— Accidental CISO (@AccidentalCISO) November 26, 2023
The moment a criminal gang stole the £350,000 car in Aveley Essex
— London & UK Street News (@CrimeLdn) November 26, 2023
(🎥East News) pic.twitter.com/zbrvvVkv5n
This is a 3,200 year old attendance sheet from Ancient Egypt. The limestone ostracon covers 280 days of the year with a list of 40 different names and dates written in black. The notes in red are the reasons for being absent, which include the following:
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) November 26, 2023
1. Drinking with Khonsu… pic.twitter.com/MAHHwzzr9b
AWS unveils the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer resembling a Fire TV Cube that's meant for workers to access cloud-based virtual desktops (Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE)https://t.co/JyKM4m5oe6https://t.co/EvFAST9LL6
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) November 27, 2023
What's old is new again https://t.co/bbE84O6qm5 pic.twitter.com/taLXu1ShUS
— Matt Linton (@0xMatt) November 27, 2023
The network^W cloud is the computer
— thaddeus e. grugq thegrugq@infosec.exchange (@thegrugq) November 27, 2023
New @ASPI_org work out today - Singing from the CCP’s songsheet: The role of foreign influencers in China’s propaganda system by @fryan @DariImpio & Matt Knight.
— Danielle Cave (@DaniellesCave) November 24, 2023
The @FT has done a fantastic long piece with their own reporting by @JKynge 👇https://t.co/v6uB1OsUcj
Working in InfoSec watching the rest of IT pic.twitter.com/Kwj8klpqIU
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) September 19, 2023
It seems that every few months, some people discover my SSRF talk from 2015 and learn from it.
— Nicolas Grégoire (@Agarri_FR) November 27, 2023
So I'll post the links again 😇
- slides https://t.co/rpVZzyN17W
- English-speaking video https://t.co/YOWA1uqvwX
- French-speaking video https://t.co/lzbzCbJ2TQ
Yesterday's interference got repeated in today's pass over Sevastopol.
— Scil (@scil_int) November 24, 2023
Sentinel-1 AWS-IW-VVVH
2023-11-24
15:37:02 UTC https://t.co/SI00WU4wId pic.twitter.com/DUCFSE9lpp
bruhhhhhhhhhh
— Killed by Google (@killedbygoogle) November 27, 2023
"Google has potentially lost Google Drive user data."https://t.co/3BNhwFUSzP
Bing is badass pic.twitter.com/EIm7Sx6MKS
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) November 27, 2023
In many ways the best christmas present for your spouse is getting something for yourself. Seeing you happy is the greatest gift they can receive
— Mr. Midwest (@InternetHippo) November 26, 2023
My timeline now: pic.twitter.com/TDXcFXzLLN
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) November 26, 2023
Remember when very smart people predicted that just in terms of hardware and electricity-related costs it would eventually be cheaper to use a given amount of compute in the cloud than it would be locally because big providers could buy both so efficiently?
— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) November 27, 2023
Good times. :)
It turns out that even more than buying hardware and electricity efficiently big tech companies love using those savings to create & maintain remarkably high profit margins. And competition among them has not done as much as expected.
— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) November 27, 2023
Today, the cost savings promotional calculus for cloud becomes "Well, if you also include A, B, C, D, E, and F costs and presume on-prem hardware needs to be replaced every six months and...."etc. etc..
— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) November 27, 2023
The Foundation for Information Policy Research has been engaged in the crypto wars, and in policy tussles from medical privacy to AI regulation, for 25 years now. Celebration on November 30! Time to ask: what's changed and what's next?https://t.co/Qt6AEA95pc
— Ross Anderson (@rossjanderson) November 23, 2023
Yes, one hour before the meeting starts at 4pm GMT, Nov 30,we will put a streaming URL on the web page: https://t.co/Qt6AEA9DeK https://t.co/XIT3V2F5cj
— Ross Anderson (@rossjanderson) November 27, 2023
Succinct, edifying article on the topic of Tagged Pointers and their various uses in the real world:https://t.co/O6mzZTNosz
— Mark E. Dawson, Jr. (@medawsonjr) November 26, 2023
The new Australian 🇦🇺 cyber security strategy was launched last week. 👇
— Ciaran Martin (@ciaranmartinoxf) November 27, 2023
It's a strong set of measures: congratulations to everyone involved.
Honoured to play a small part in it as chair of the international advisory committee.https://t.co/VXUQHPGTAQ