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IT Security, Fraud and Phishing. Progressive politics. Weird cars.
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Somebody has hacked LockBit. I’m going to guess DragonForce. They’ve dumped their victim payment chats and backend SQL. #threatintel #ransomware

The president has created his own money-fleecing spin on Reagonomics — instead of promising trickle-down wealth, it’s trickle-down opportunities for fraud. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66210...

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This is your annual reminder that your European colleagues are on holiday today and probably won't have set their out-of office message. And to all Europeans on holiday, the UK will be off on Monday and also won't have set their OOO. #mayday #may1st #internationalworkersday

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This is great

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

The last guy to show off his military access by sharing classified military intel with unauthorized people on a consumer chat app, Jack Teixeira, will be in prison until 2036

The Wimbledon mansion that's also the Vatican's Embassy to Great Britain ianvisits.co.uk/articles/806... A large mansion house in Wimbledon will be unusually busy over the next few weeks, as it's the Apostolic Nunciature to Great Britain, or what we might call the Vatican's Embassy.

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Wow. CVE database is in serious trouble, in two days. The cyber industry as a whole is in trouble also really, it’s the elephant in the room - the collapse of the White House’s support for cybersecurity is obvious and pronounced due to widespread cutbacks.

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/o...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Let it begin.

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer and computer scientist Bob Morris, father of Robert Morris – who had just released the first Internet worm. "A line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed." (John McCumber, Assessing&Managing Security Risk in IT Systems)

The UK and our NATO allies will never forget the sacrifice of 43 Danish soldiers in Afghanistan after 9/11. But it appears JD Vance has.