And getting your bosses to have to say it to their bosses

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113540953769511827

Sure, it's easy to make fun of the ridiculous naming conventions for APTs, but have you considered that giving a new APT a hilarious name is one of the great joys of doing infosec?

I’m fediversed!

RE: https://www.threads.net/@eric.m.hutch/post/C4zAHg3x7azbx7TOxIX7bHPuGfOZ4qf_vhekzE0

We love working with industry as they research and uncover complex cyber intrusions. Sometimes it gets a little competitive though.

@josiahdykstra @wendynather @spaf @theladyofgeek no bird site in sight

After reading a handful of #CTI #ThreatIntel public reports this morning, I'm just going to put this out there: one of the most effective ways to level up your #infosec game is through taking a professional or technical writing class.

That is all.

Interesting aspect of today's announcement by Microsoft that they're moving toward a new, tiered/nested #CTI #ThreatActor naming schema: in moving away from element names as placeholders for activity groups/clusters as defined through a methodology like #DiamondModel, and towards a schema that posits definite value in adversary attributes (primarily geography, for now), has Microsoft Threat Intel changed some aspects of methodology and clustering to include increasing amounts of "who-focused" linking?

FWIW, they're one of the only private shops that I think could do that sort of linking with any degree of success or accuracy on a consistent basis.

Not long now before we kick off our flagship event in the amazing city of Belfast. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new ones in the ever expanding cyber security community. If you’re not joining us in person, follow our YouTube channel for some great talks and speakers. https://www.cyberuk.uk

21yo Air National Guard intel dweeb is responsible for the most serious intel leaks/losses of the last several years because he was trying to impress some other dweebs in a fucking gamer/influencer worshiping chat you can't make this shit up folks

#trurl by Daniel Stenberg https://youtu.be/oDL7DVszr2w - a run-through of the new tool and how to use it

@mmasnick has an outstanding piece re Musk labeling NPR as “state-affiliated” media. I highly recommend it.

Masnick correctly notes that while all of this may seem silly, it’s not. It’s a glaring example of how Musk keeps choosing his petty ego over serious issues of information integrity, and is actually harming trust & safety.

“It’s arbitrary, it’s stupid, it’s petty, it’s vindictive. And it’s everything that’s wrong with Twitter 2.0 in one simple stupid snapshot.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/05/npr-was-twitters-example-of-what-should-not-be-labeled-state-affiliated-media-then-musk-added-the-label-and-retconned-the-policy/

What a game

Another serial swatter (allegedly) gets...swatted.

U.S. authorities on Thursday said they arrested a Washington state man who made more than 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses to his fake reports of bombs, shootings or other threats.

Ashton Connor Garcia, 20, of Bremerton, used voice-over-internet technology to conceal his identity as he placed the calls last year — and he treated them as entertainment, broadcasting them on the social media platform Discord, federal prosecutors said.

He faces 10 felony counts filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington, that could bring up to a decade in prison. Court records did not immediately indicate if Garcia had an attorney who might speak on his behalf.

https://www.wesa.fm/courts-justice/2023-03-30/arrest-hoax-active-shooter-calls

Elon thinks you’ll pay $8 for an algorithmic boost because he paid $44 billion for it.

“Building something valuable... is really, really hard. But tearing it all down is piss easy”.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

Mandiant officially named Kimsuky as APT43 https://mandiant.widen.net/s/zvmfw5fnjs/apt43-report

Wonderful tribute to @aloria by @lorenzofb, with quotes from @shortridge, @k8em0, @quine and others. I'm happy to know Kelly achieved her goal of visiting all continents, including Antarctica. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/22/kelly-aloria-lum-passes-away-at-41-obituary/

Just pushed Textual 0.15.0 with the new Tabs control.

See the blog post for details...

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/03/13/textual-0150-adds-a-tabs-widget/

#Python

The privatization of Twitter has been a complete triumph! Note the recursive simplicity of this. Recursion is an important concept in computer science so well done there.

lmao and stuff like the MRAPs...only really useful when you need to transport infantry to and from an artillery/mine/bomb-ridden battlefield...might have otherwise been shipped off to local American police departments to sit uselessly at fair grounds, chew up pavement and one day kill three deputies in a rollover.