we ( poland can into space ) got second place in hack-a-sat ctf! it was a lot of fun~

Great to see #OWASP Booth 2416D at #BlackHat - and catch up with both current and previous Board members @bilcorry @infosecvandana @vanderaj.

Registered for BHat 😀 - ready for it

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Fast Company reviews 6 Twitter replacements, and author @harrymccracken calls Mastodon the "heir apparent".

He says the Mastodon crowd is "friendly and engaged".

And he observes that Mastodon has higher interaction even with lower follower counts.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90886959/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-t2-post-bluesky

@fediversenews

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Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-claims-to-be-selling-twitter-data-of-400-million-users/

Jared Kushner (who the Saudis gave $2B) and Elon Musk (who the Saudis helped finance his Twitter buyout) are hanging at the #worldcup in Qatar, because of course they are 🤮

👀

Cybereason Issues a Warning on a Rapid Growth of Royal Ransomware https://ift.tt/pziMEKC

Does ChatGPT Bot Empower Cyber Crime? https://ift.tt/5wyks8d

Does Twitter blocking Mastodon links constitute anticompetitive behavior against a nascent rival? I asked a couple of legal experts, including Bill Baer, the former antitrust chief at DOJ and FTC in two US administrations. Here's what they say: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html

Interesting - the Twitter account encouraging people to join rival social network Mastodon has been suspended, the latest in a string of accounts suspended this week.
https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/twitter-suspends-account-encouraging-others-to-join-mastodon/

@stephenanfield @mastodonusercount sweet 🙂

Unprotected API endpoint at HAwebsso.nl leads to data leak of +15k medical doctor usernames & password hashes
https://link.medium.com/dEApmWGzPvb

#infosec #bugbountytip #bugbountywriteup

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Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

@jerry wow, that really impressive.