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Chief Research Officer @ Unit 221B most reliable way to reach me is my company's outreach form on the website my other urls: https://infosec.exchange/@nixonnixoff https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-nixon-81822124/ don't bother contacting me on twitter
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They put the "AI Mode" button in that exact spot in the hopes you accidentally click it and inflate some executive's usage report.

Recent press highlights from SLEUTHCON: Covering Allison Nixon's talk on "The Com": cyberscoop.com/the-com-subc... Highlights from Thibault Seret's talk: www.wired.com/story/cyberc... #Cybercrime #Cybercriminals #cybersecurity #SLEUTHCON

The Com’s chaotic, sprawling network, composed of mostly teenagers and young adults, are committing their crimes primarily for notoriety amongst their peers on the internet, @nixonnixoff.bsky.social said during a presentation @sleuthcon.bsky.social. cyberscoop.com/the-com-subc...

"Dude are you ok?" "I don't think he is..."

Maxar collected images of Russian aircraft feeling nervous

Woooo Sleuthcon!!!

Nothing's computer! insideevs.com/news/757681/...

There's a 2021 stealer log for a telemessage employee's hootsuite login. Other websites in the same stealer log (looks like websites the same machine visited) include readcomiconline[.]to and kissanime[.]ru. For national security reasons, Anime was a mistake

Politicians pushing around infosec people opens the door to companies that make insecure shit doing same. And then they wonder why China has all our secrets. No gov is going to tell us what to do, not the last one, not this one, not the next one if there's a next one www.eff.org/press/releas...

this thread is really funny

Does anyone remember this from the 90's? Can someone bring back this delivery style, but instead use it for cease & desists?

Bad AAPL

Do we need a new NSA Director now? I hope they accidentally invite a journalist it would be so funny

I have been a fan of the "Stupid Hackathon" for years and it is honest to god better than CES futurism.com/vape-tamagot...

Journalists should change their name on Signal to "Note to Self" and see what happens

SCIF = Signal Chat Is Fun

new policy for classified signal groupchats

The Snowflake hacker that was threatening researchers just consented to extradition. I don't know why he would consent, given that his group extorted and leaked the most vengeful President in American history (and worse, threatened me), but it's a win! cyberscoop.com/connor-mouck...

Advanced persistent friends

A 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier linked to last year's Snowflake attack spree allegedly tried to sell stolen data to a foreign intelligence service after searching for information about how to defect to Russia. Hat tip to @nixonnixoff.bsky.social @austinlarsen.me cyberscoop.com/army-soldier...

The no-opsec Army guy who was part of the group that leaked Trump's call logs (and worse, threatened me) google searched how to defect to Russia and "can hacking be treason" 💀💀💀💀 He was never going to get away.

5 things i did last week: -i talk to the customer -i take specifications from the customer and give them to the engineers -i deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers dont have to -i have people skills damnit -what the hell is wrong with you people

next techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/u...

Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.

📄 New Intelligence Notification calls attention to violent online communities threatening children. The document focuses on the rise of online grooming cult groups dedicated to extremely violent child abuse. Read more in our press release ⬇️ www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

The SEC Twitter account hacker was a cybersecurity major in college, and also wants to let people know that the hack was actually his victims' fault. x.com/vxundergroun...