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September 4, 2022

September 4, 2022

A former DDoS for hire operator ponders why CloudFlare provides service to booter’s websites. The booters’ service actively makes the Internet a worse place by increasing the amount of garbage DDoS traffic. Which just makes services like CloudFlare more desirable… oooh.

I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and CloudFlare helped

The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.

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Australia released a 50c coin commemorating the ASD. It was covered in codes. Here is how they were solved:

http://senwerks.com/hacktheplanet/Solving-the-Australian-Signals-Directorate-cryptography-challenge-coin.html

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vx-underground

@vxunderground

11.84GB of United States Military Contractor and Military Reserve data has been leaked. We suspect (the now defunct) Conti ransomware group is distributing United States Military data they acquired when they breached Puerto Rico.

Sep 3, 2022

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Ami Toben

@amitoben

Tips and suggestions for surveillance detection operators. protectioncircle.org/2015/06/19/sur… … #ProtectionCircle #SurveillanceZone #SurveillanceDetection #Surveillance #ExecutiveProtection #CloseProtection @As_solution @LaSorsaTraining @fred_burton @thegrugq @barryeisler

Tips & Suggestions For Surveillance Detection Operators

This article is a follow-up to some of my earlier articles on the subject of surveillance and surveillance detection. For those of you who haven’t done so, it might be best to start with tho…

Aug 16, 2018

Tips & Suggestions For Covert Operators

The intention of this article is to give some tips and suggestions for covert operators, and to point out some of the more common, and therefore predictable – and therefore detectable –…

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Significant victory for Russian information operations.

Hromadske Int.

@Hromadske

~70,000 people came out for anti-govt protests in Prague. They demand the lifting of sanctions against Russia and the cessation of arms supplies to Ukraine. Czech authorities say that the protest was called by pro-Russian forces that act against Czech interests, says Ceske Noviny

Sep 3, 2022

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EOC

@funcrusherplus

We are still learning every day about the horrors of The Patriot Act and the Extraordinary Rendition Programme.

Sep 3, 2022

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Joseph Menn

@josephmenn

Story here:

Under pressure, security firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms website

Cloudfare Chief Executive Matthew Prince told The Washington Post he would no longer protect the site becaause of a surge in credible violent threats stemming from the site.

Sep 3, 2022

Hexadecim8

@hexadecim8

It’s one thing to dox trans women. It happens online all the time. You start doxing ppl in security making corporate decisions about which CDN to buy and you’re gonna feel it. KF’s sin is the same one all unsuccessful bigots make - they fucked with the money.

Sep 3, 2022

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🅰🅳🅼

@securityfreax

Run your shellcode directly from bash: dd of=/proc/$$/mem bs=1 seek=$(($(cut -d" " -f9</proc/$$/syscall))) if=<(base64 -d<<<utz+IUO+aRkSKL+t3uH+McCwqQ8F) conv=notrunc Credits to "unknown"

Sep 3, 2022

Battle Programmer Yu​u

@netspooky

@securityfreax This technique is covered here!

https://blog.sektor7.net/#!res/2018/pure-in-memory-linux.md Sep 4, 2022

For non-root + aslr:

Erik Bosman

@brainsmoke

@varcharr cd /proc/$$;exec 3>mem;(base64 -d<<<MdtoL2JpbkiJ54FvBNGMl/9qLcZH+WNIieBTSIni6w5QSI1ADVBIieaNQzsPBejt////L2Jpbi9iYXNoAADrwA==;yes $'\xeb\xfc'|tr -d '\n')|dd bs=1 seek=$((0x$(grep vdso -m1 maps|cut -f1 -d-)))>&3

May 8, 2020

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Dan Guido

@dguido

It has brightened my whole day that some researchers in 1993 put polyester pants on rats and tracked how much sex they had. The results are SHOCKING (literally). tl;dr wear cotton underwear 😆

Sep 4, 2022

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gene

@curiousgene

My wife: So, wait, who’s Morgoth? Me: LET’S DISCUSS THE MUSIC OF THE AINUR My wife: oh no Me: FIRST ERU MADE THE AINUR I HAVE PREPARED SOME SLIDES My wife: I just want to watch the show

Sep 2, 2022

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Matt Suiche

@msuiche

"Welcome to InfoSec Radio. Thanks for listening, we are in year 2022 and today we will talk about DDoS"

Sep 4, 2022

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Sasha Costanza-Chock

@schock

In the end, the machines were left alone in generative adversarial loops, swapping advertising copy, imaginary logos, protein folding structures, and eery half-cubist, half-onlyfans NFTs

Sep 3, 2022

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qntm

@qntm

Speaking as a Moon ghost, I think that astronaut overreacted

Sep 3, 2022

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OSINTtechnical

@Osinttechnical

A major portion of the Nova Kakhovka Dam bridge is now sitting at the bottom of the shipping channel. https://t.co/wfpEQEUYCI

Sep 3, 2022

E.E. Knight

@EE_Knight

@LesserFrederick No worries. Goering has promised he can resupply them by air.

Sep 4, 2022

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web3 is going just great

@web3isgreat

Crypto scam watchdog group launches NFT project, which is then exploited September 2, 2022 web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=crypto-sca…

Sep 3, 2022

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Duffel Blog

@DuffelBlog

The slide, innocuously labeled 142215LOCT09CUB_v4_FINAL_USETHISONE.ppt, contained multiple layers of misguided strategy, operational short-sightedness, incorrect tactical updates, and incoherent jargony nonsense.

Afghanistan Commission identifies exact PowerPoint slide that lost War

Just in time.

Sep 3, 2022

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April Henry

@aprilhenrybooks

OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.

Sep 4, 2022

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April Henry

@aprilhenrybooks

90 percent of titles sell fewer than 2,000 units.

Sep 4, 2022

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Bitfinex’ed 🔥 Κασσάνδρα 🏺

@Bitfinexed

This won’t age well.

Sep 4, 2022

It gets better.

Hilko Bengen

@_hillu

@Bitfinexed @thegrugq It gets better. From the same presentation:

Sep 4, 2022

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Karl Sharro

@KarlreMarks

European energy policy now is like someone who's forgotten their wedding anniversary and is driving around late at night looking for petrol station flowers

Sep 4, 2022

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