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I'm trying to understand why one of the worst bulletproof hosting providers out there today -- Russia-based Prospero OOO -- is now getting transit to the larger internet via the antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab? […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Security engineering should be embedded in engineering teams, doing joint engineering work. Security engineering that operates as its own isolated team is an organizational artifact of a company’s “we’ll bolt on security later” culture.

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Re-watching The Strain

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If you've got any interest at all in Australian history, please write a word in support of Tim Sherratt - his API keys for national archives services have been revoked, cutting off years of work building tools around them. Contact info at bottom of post. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Not hating Zero Day

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

what happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope? they kaleidescope

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Seems like a lot of the NIST standards have gone missing.

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Woo time for a free will related existential crisis, do hiccup cures work?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I started doing victim notification (vn) work back in 2011. At the time, I was working as a Security Analyst at #SecureWorks in their Security Operation Center. In between the alerts for malware, there would be an occasional alert for malware check-in, but the domain had expired. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Cthulhu is read for looooove

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Amazing that internal RDP hosts are still getting exposed by orgs that should know better

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Loud bang just after midnight and the power went out. UPS is reporting over 7 hours runtime, eta for a crew is 2am

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Oh man, I have so many stories about that "startup". The founder Marshall Webb spent a year harassing me because I posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet (he considered himself to be the sole authority). It later turned out his knowledge came from him personally hosting their infrastructure 1/5

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

That feeling when you have to tell a cybersecurity consultant their webserver (hosted on a residential service) seems to have been popped and is being used maliciously 🤣😂😭😩

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW JWST IMAGE SHOWING A PROTOPLANETARY DISK AROUND A NEWLY FORMED STAR!!! 🤩

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

I started a @bsky.app Aussie infosec starter pack a while ago, Its to helps us find each other on here. If you work in infosec in Australia and want to be added (or removed) shoot me a DM. Reskeets appreciated. go.bsky.app/TUqsrmJ

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hellgrogu

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

yesterday it came to light that calvin robinson, a priest who recently lost his license for giving an elon-esque nazi salute at a pro life conference, owns a video game site called god is a geek. today the site's entire staff quit in protest aftermath.site/god-is-a-gee...

submitted 28 days ago • 82 comments

We are back to a state where every morning I sit down at my desk, take a deep breath, and then ask "let's see who has been very stupid while I was sleeping again".

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles. #happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy

submitted 35 days ago • 79 comments

i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive

submitted 36 days ago • 127 comments

Mad kitchen sink device but no idea whatever what the computer bit did let alone what OS it ran Reposting for alt text props, they really worked for this one

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

A favorite from my collection - this luminous little one from the 1960s.

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