By the way, this is absolutely terrible advice for dealing with a major and high visibility ransomware incident.
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Independent security researcher.
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Recall still scoops up WhatsApp and Signal chats, haven't tried others yet. Fully searchable and stored as text in the local Recall database. My blur on screenshot.
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Voice of America’s "affiliate partner stations that need to fill air and screen time are already lining up programs from the international broadcasting services of Russia and China to replace American programming.” - Former VOA Director Geoffrey Cowan https://www.marinij.com/2025/03/31/california-voice-under-trump-voice-of-america-radio-has-fallen-silent/
@0xabad1dea @wirepair thanks for following up here. Yeah, I’m fine. Thanks for checking :)
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My team at Internet Archive has 3 open roles: a senior product manager (we build web and digital preservation services for mission-aligned memory and cultural heritage institutions), a senior AI engineer (exploring how we might use AI/ML to better surface human-authored content to humans), and a (non-senior) backend software engineer.
If you want to help keep this ember glowing and growing, and are up for some unique challenges, please apply!
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@tomatospy @thegrugq 'why do cyber attacks have to be mean?'
It's as if The Grugq had his own Ueshiba epiphany. According to the stories, that's how he gave up fighting and created Aikido.
Interesting premise and great discussion btw
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ICYMI from yesterday: The biggest breach of U.S. government data is under way.
"Whether DOGE staffers are bad actors misses part of the point. Acts of subterfuge, espionage, or ignorance could produce the same suboptimal outcome: exposure or loss of the nation’s sensitive datasets."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/the-biggest-breach-of-u-s-government-data-is-under-way/
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British engineering giant IMI has disclosed a cybersecurity incident just days after rival firm Smiths said it was targeted by hackers https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/imi-becomes-the-latest-british-engineering-firm-to-be-hacked/
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When Sam Altman says his technology requires “a new social contract,” what he means is that he’s about to exploit a ton of people & doesn’t want them to have any recourse.
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FortiGate have a blog out: https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-data-posting
It’s essentially the same as my blog - but in corporate 🤣
It plays heavily on the ‘this is old data’ angle and says you’ll be fine as long as you rotated credentials. Sure, somebody obtained all your firewall rules.. but that’s okay.. right. ✅
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oh my god. OH my god.
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I am pleased to announce the availability of scans of a 1971 DRAFT version of Aho & Ullman's "Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling" (1972)
Enabled by the kind permission of the authors - Turing award winners Drs. Al Aho and Jeff Ullman, whom I've been privileged to know... /
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(please re-post for reach - thank you!)
Learned a cool new Linux trick? Know an interesting quirk in a network protocol? Or have something else to share?
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Soft deadline is Feb 1st.
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An excellent write-up and timeline of the Chrome extensions hacking campaign that included Cyberhaven.
Per @dangoodin: At least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store, some for as long as 18 months, were surreptitiously siphoning sensitive data from roughly 2.6 million devices.
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"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/
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