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September 20, 2022

September 20, 2022

Lapsus$ did Uber.

Children hacking multi billion dollar corporations by spamming MFA alerts to a phone until the user just hits Accept to make it stop.

Uber admits 'several internal systems' breached, blames gang

From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated



Patrick C Miller

@PatrickCMiller

Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it

Lens reflections may betray your secrets in Zoom video calls

About time someone shone some light onto this

Sep 20, 2022

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Dom

@Tdr1nka

This has got to be the Twitter exchange of the day.

Sep 19, 2022

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Lily Simpson has blue hair + pronouns

@LilySimpson1312

This might be the greatest paragraph ever written

Sep 19, 2022

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The TikTok Juror

@AynRandy

imagine if you got to the front of the queue and there was none of the Queen left. you'd be absolutely starving

Sep 19, 2022

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Josh Baron

@JoshuaWBaron

This is a really cool paper coming out of the @DARPA SIEVE program demonstrating how to do zero knowledge proofs of exploitability for MSP430 microcorruptions. Of note, we have several teams doing work in this “ZK proof of vulnerability/exploitability” space.

Sep 19, 2022

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Corey Quinn

@QuinnyPig

Imagine being referred to henceforth as Mandoogle. https://t.co/RwZOlcvYIr

Sep 20, 2022

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Chris Carpenter

@NCC800_53A

Compliance: what's the minimum I have to do for you to trust my product or service? Security: how do I keep from losing that confidence now that I've gained it?

Sep 20, 2022

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Jack Grimes

@Jackapedia_

i've preemptively named every mountain dew-based cocktail. please note I've only made like 3 of these combinations

Sep 19, 2022

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Nome

@NomeDaBarbarian

Meanwhile, I regularly get emails telling me that twitter has found nothing wrong with folks advocating for genocide, and that maybe I should learn how to be less sensetive or use blocking tools. So it's clear that twitter has my preferred nazi to pornographer ratio flipped.

Sep 20, 2022

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Sport Fails TV

@SportFailTV

You're gonna want the sound on for this commentary

Sep 19, 2022

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Ralf (RPW)

@esizkur

Weak PRNGs strike yet again, episode “Vanity Wallets”:

Private key safety · Issue #61 · johguse/profanity

Hi, could you elaborate on how private keys are being generated and brute forced? It seems like a reliable random number generator std::mt19937_64 is being fully initialized by unsigned int (https:...

Sep 20, 2022

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Marcus Hutchins

@MalwareTechBlog

Ok guys you've convinced me TikTok is spyware. I'm uninstalling it now so China can't get my personal data which is is only accessible by a ride share company that was hacked by a child, and a cell provider that was hacked by a child, and Twitter which was hacked by a child

Sep 20, 2022

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Kateryna Yushchenko 🌻 🇺🇦

@KatyaYushchenko

So this is what happened. "Wagner" recruited convicts and signed contracts with them: get out of prison if you fight Ukraine. They got several days training and were sent to Bakhmut. Then guess what? They surrendered. https://t.co/wnJ7dDrlnT

Sep 19, 2022

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Center for Democracy & Technology

@CenDemTech

.@CenDemTech filed an amicus brief in Woodhull v. United States, challenging the constitutionality of #FOSTA. The brief argues that FOSTA is unconstitutionally vague/overbroad & will cause online intermediaries to remove constitutionally protected speech:

CDT Files Amicus Brief Challenging Constitutionality of FOSTA

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) filed an amicus brief in Woodhull v. United States, a case challenging the constitutionality of Allowing States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA). FOSTA, signed into law in April 2018, made significant changes to federal criminal law…

Sep 14, 2022

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Fake History Hunter

@fakehistoryhunt

As this question returns now and then, here a short thread on the story behind these fantastic photos. Yes, they did have motorised scooters over a century ago, lots of them, they were kind of a craze, well, among those who could afford them of course. 🧵with many cool pics:

Sep 19, 2022

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Zhenpeng Lin

@Markak_

I just released the #DirtyCred version of exploit to CVE-2022-2588 (an 8-year-old bug) along with a brief write-up. Ideally, the exploit could work on different distros if the kernel is vulnerable. Feel free to check it out at github.com/Markakd/CVE-20…!

Sep 19, 2022

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US companies have figured out how to get indentured servants.

https://truthout.org/articles/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude/

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Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc

@JohnDiesattheEn

No act of hubris is more reliably punished than putting "final" in the file name of a project

Sep 18, 2022

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No Context Brits

@NoContextBrits

For a minute I thought I was about to watch the wildest cooking show of all-time.

Sep 19, 2022

Matt Rose

@rose_matt

@NoContextBrits “Fuck me, it’s like a pile of powdered spunk” “And how’s your line for you?” “Do me a favour darling… taste that would you?” “Ugh.. it’s.. it’s not good” “It’s bland, it’s weak and it’s fucking disgusting, yeah?”

Sep 19, 2022

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