Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
#Peon
#Precariat
#Substituteteacher
#Temporarywork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_labor

#Capitalism #Casualwork #DayLaborer #exploitation #gigEconomy

Hey everyone! It's been a bit quiet on the news front over the last 24 hours, but we've got one significant update concerning an actively exploited SCADA vulnerability and a look at some sustained exploitation efforts. Let's dive in:

Actively Exploited SCADA XSS Added to CISA KEV ⚠️

- CISA has added CVE-2021-26829, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenPLC ScadaBR (affecting Windows through v1.12.4 and Linux through v0.9.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog due to active exploitation.
- This flaw was recently leveraged by the pro-Russian hacktivist group TwoNet, who targeted a Forescout honeypot (mistaking it for a water treatment facility). After gaining initial access via default credentials, they exploited the XSS to deface the HMI login page and disable logs/alarms.
- Separately, VulnCheck has identified a long-running exploit operation, active for about a year, originating from Google Cloud OAST infrastructure and primarily targeting Brazil. This operation scans for over 200 CVEs, including a custom variant of a Fastjson RCE flaw, demonstrating sustained, regionally-focused attack efforts.

📰 The Hacker News | https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/cisa-adds-actively-exploited-xss-bug.html

#CyberSecurity #ThreatIntelligence #Vulnerability #CVE #XSS #SCADA #ICS #CISA #KEV #Hacktivism #TwoNet #Exploitation #InfoSec #IncidentResponse

Today in Labor History November 30, 1803: The Balmis Expedition left Spain to vaccinate millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. The mission lasted from 1803 to 1806. The Spanish brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating the indigenous populations. Edward Jenner pioneered the vaccine in 1798. Variolation had already been in use for centuries in Africa, China and India, but was less safe and effective. At the time of the Balmis Expedition, about 400,000 Europeans died each year from smallpox, which is caused by the Variola virus. And it was the cause of one-third of all cases of blindness in Europe. In the 1770s, a smallpox epidemic wiped out 30% of the Indigenous peoples of the Puget Sound region. And overall, some historians estimate that smallpox wiped out over 90% of all indigenous people of the Americas, in one of the largest genocides in history.

Balmis brought 22 orphaned boys on the expedition, whom he infected with cowpox, to use as carriers of the disease. Infection with live cowpox, which was much milder than smallpox, gave lifelong immunity to the deadlier disease. In Cuba, he picked up three enslaved girls to use as additional carriers.

The Balmis expedition was both the first international vaccination program ever and the first international public health campaign. It was certainly not the last. The campaign to wipe out smallpox was ultimately successful in 1980, when the disease was declared eradicated. The WHO smallpox eradication program cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved hundreds of thousands of people to reach the most remote villages in the world. The U.S. was the largest contributor to the program, but has recouped that investment every 26 days since in terms of money no longer spent on smallpox vaccinations and in the costs of incidence.

The last known case of smallpox was in a journalist from the UK, who most likely contracted the virus from a local research facility. Since then, it has become impossible to contract the virus naturally, since there is no longer any virus circulating in any human population, the first and only human virus to reach this status. For this reason, they stopped giving the smallpox vaccine to people, since the chances of dying from the disease are now 0%, which is lower than the extremely low risk of dying from the vaccine. It is also the reason the WHO recommended destroying all remaining laboratory stocks of the virus (i.e., to prevent a lab leak and the reintroduction of the deadly virus). All known supplies were, in fact, destroyed, except for two remaining stockpiles: one in the USSR (now Russia) and one in the CDC in the U.S. The WHO also bans the genetic engineering of the Variola virus. However, in 2002, researchers at NIH have synthesized Vaccinia virus, a close relative of Variola. In 2016, researcher synthesized horsepox, which had previously been extinct.

As with the covid vaccine, there was intense resistance to early smallpox vaccination programs. And as with vaccine resistance today, much of it was based on ignorance and conspiracy theories. The idea of scoring the flesh and introducing lymph from an infected animal seemed unsanitary. Some felt it was against “god’s will” since it was combining animal with human. Others were skeptical of its efficacy, believing the disease was caused by decay in the atmosphere, rather than germs that one could be immunized against. Or they simply were ignorant of how immunity worked and couldn’t understand how the immune system could be trained to block germs from making them sick. And there were those who opposed compulsory vaccination as a violation of their privacy rights. Anti-vaccination leagues grew in the UK and U.S. in the 1800s following compulsory smallpox vaccination laws. However, unlike Covid and Influenza, vaccination against Variola conferred nearly 100% lifelong immunity to the deadly disease, preventing both illness and death, as well as the spread of the disease.

#vaccine #vaccination #publichealth #genocide #indigenous #smallpox #spain #colonialism #slavery #exploitation #consent #who #cdc #covid

MacOS Infection Vector: Using AppleScripts to bypass Gatekeeper:

https://pberba.github.io/security/2025/11/11/macos-infection-vector-applescript-bypass-gatekeeper/

#macOS #infosec #applescript #cybersecurity #exploitation #hacking

MacOS Infection Vector: Using AppleScripts to bypass Gatekeeper:

https://pberba.github.io/security/2025/11/11/macos-infection-vector-applescript-bypass-gatekeeper/

#macOS #infosec #applescript #cybersecurity #exploitation #hacking

Today in Labor History November 29, 1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, feminist and abolitionist, was born. Her writing was influenced by the transcendentalists, like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Longfellow, whom she knew personally. While she was most famous for her book, “Little Women,” she also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical novel that exposed the exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age as a teacher, seamstress, governess and domestic. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse and developed typhoid fever. The medicine she took contained mercury, which may have contributed to the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for the rest of her life and that ultimately killed her. She is buried on Author’s Ridge, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Concord, near Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #louisamayalcott #feminism #slavery #Abolition #nurse #teacher #poverty #exploitation #thoreau #hawthorne #longfellow #emerson #civilwar #books #literature #fiction #writer #author @bookstadon

Abolish the Wages System: Reclaiming Life from the Logic of Capital

https://classautonomy.info/abolish-the-wages-system-reclaiming-life-from-the-logic-of-capital/

In a world characterized by the obscene accumulation of wealth by the few and the grinding precarity of the many, this slogan is not merely a relic of the past. It is a call to confront the deep structure of modern exploitation: the domination of labor by capital, of human life by the wage…

#OrganizeAgainst #Slavery #Exploitation #Mechanisms #Control #Workers #Extraction #Surplus #Capitalists

Exploit Development: Building Your Own Fuzzer with BASH

Send random/invalid data, watch for crashes. Simple but powerful intro to finding zero-days:
https://hackers-arise.com/exploit-development-building-your-own-fuzzer-with-bash/

#zeroday #bash #cybersecurity #fuzzers #exploitation #infosec

For those who wonder why I'm so adamant about not installing the Black Rock Coffee app, here you go. Some of us in technology have been trying to warn you about this dirty game for a long time.

The solution? Normalize buying from the lowest-tech businesses possible. Because the temptation to abuse this information is irresistible to money-hungry, soulless profiteers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/dynamic-pricing-algorithms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k8.rCqE.jhegJgw9lt42&smid=url-share

#Business #Collusion #Exploitation

Black Friday. Cartoon for Trouw.

#BlackFriday #consumerism #exploitation #sweatshops

Reporterre
Black Friday : des ONG dénoncent
l’exploitation des ouvrières du textile
https://mcinformactions.net/black-friday-des-ong-denoncent-l-exploitation-des-ouvrieres-du-textile
#BlackFriday #textile #exploitation

How do you get rich in this world?

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-5769-28e3-ab62-afe098590431

Unholy alliance of #fashion brands, factory owners, governments propping up industry known for #HumanRights abuses. Industry thrived for decades on underpaid, overworked and mostly female workforce

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/garment-industry-profits-from-denial-of-right-to-unionize/

#union #unions #Bangladesh #India #Pakistan #SriLanka #Germany #Denmark #Japan #Spain #Sweden #UK #USA #Spain #China #MAndS #Walmart #Boohoo #HAndM #Desigual #Next #Gap #UnionBusting #SEZ #MinimumWage #OECD #SexualHarassment #poverty #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

thewire.in/labour/clima... #Maharashtra is one of the largest states in #India 100M+ population and largest GDP and yet the plight of #poor #women is among the worst in the #world. This #exploitation is akin to #colonialism #climate #climatechange #sugarcane #humanrights #justice

Climate, Caste and the Surgica...

https://thewire.in/labour/climate-caste-and-the-surgical-scars-of-sugarcane-labour-in-maharashtra

#Maharashtra is one of the largest states in #India 100M+ population and largest GDP and yet the plight of #poor #women is among the worst in the #world. This #exploitation is akin to #colonialism

#climate #climatechange #sugarcane #humanrights #justice

Tour du Cinéma Outsider – Etappe 6: „The Toxic Avenger“ von Lloyd Kaufman und Michael Herz
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– Wann: Freitag, 28. November, 20 Uhr
– Wo: ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Thalia⁩⁩⁩⁩-Kino, ⁨#DresdenNeustadt⁩
– Eintritt: 8 €, für Vereinsmitglieder des Phase IV e. V. ist der Eintritt frei!
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Save the dates: 12.12. Die Liebenden von Pont Neuf / 26.12. Tokyo Godfathers / 09.01. American Honey
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Willkommen in Tromaville, einer Kleinstadt in New Jersey, idyllisch gelegen am Rande einer radioaktiven Müllhalde. Ein korrupter Bürgermeister und seine Kumpane terrorisieren zwar die Stadt, aber ansonsten ist alles … (1/2)

⁨⁨#LloydKaufman ⁨⁨#MichaelHerz #Outsider⁩⁩ ⁨#Trash ⁨#Horror #Splatter #Exploitation ⁨#Komödie #Comedy #Monster #Mutanten #Mutants ⁨#TourduCinema⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinema⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#movies⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Kino⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#Film⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinemastodon⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩

i still dont understand how ANYONE is in #prison for ANYTHING at all, because its HIGHLY hypocritcal for people who do the same "#crimes" and worse (serial r4pe as a #lifestyle, mass murdering #genocides, #exploitation, #slavery, #fraud, #theft...etc) are being blindly obeyed and followed as "#leaders and #heroes"!!!

Painting on paper: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #astronaut #spaceSuit #outerSpace #innerSpace #spaceTravel #ressources #earthOvershootDay #sustainability #exploration #exploitation #solarSystem #anatomy #theDisplay #revelation #renaissance #watchMe #innerSelf #exposure #medicine

"$100,000 Is the New Poor" – "We are measuring starvation". In the US today, you will need 150k per year at least to avoid poverty.

But their measures for poverty still use the numbers from the 60ies. A dying country, a failed state. So sad to see this.

#USA #poverty #exploitation

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

...if the "nation" is so moral why does nearly every major atrocity have the #uspol stamp and seal on it?

...remember the #guatamala #genocide aided by reagan?

no, me either cos i was a baby, but entire towns were slaughtered and "disappeared" with uskkk aligned interests...which were NOT about "cold war communism"

...once again it was #economic #exploitation for agricultural lands (united fruit co, coffee and sugar plantations) and to suppress labour movements against foreign #corporations.