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The Spamhaus Project📢 ENDGAME REMEDIATION - SOCGHOLISH | Following last week’s announcement and today’s update from Europol (link below), the disruption effort against SocGholish has expanded to include Amadey and StealC.
Spamhaus is now sending notification emails 📩 to hosters of confirmed compromised WordPress sites.
Here's what to do if you receive one:
👉 Go to this remediation webpage: https://www.spamhaus.org/endgame-socgholish
👉 Enter the access code included in the email
👉 Download the list of compromised WordPress administrator credentials
👉 Verify and where necessary, contact the owner to update their credentials, enable multi-factor authentication, remove any unrecognised WordPress accounts, and ensure your WordPress installation is fully up to date. (there's a ready-made email template for you to use on the remediation webpage 😀)
Thank you to everyone who is part of this effort.
Europol announcement: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cyber-strike-disrupts-socgholish-amadey-and-stealc-malware-networks
#Trustandsafety #Endgame #SocGholish #Disruption #Infosec #CyberSecurity #Malware
LorryI was talking to a friend last week about a personal/work project I had about 10 years ago where every month or so, I had to change my mind (properly!) about something I believed in – Which in this case, meant I had to go and seek things out because it’s really hard to do every month unless it’s active.
It’s half of the reason I spent so long embedded in Flat-Earth and Scientology; the other half was that I was researching pathways to radicalisation and trying to trace a lot of them to the source and exit.
I was listening to a Sherlock Holmes podcast yesterday and realised that being able to change your mind completely about something is a core investigative skill (and this is how I increased my B2B sales… No! No… Away with you LinkedIn!).
Good investigative technique means having a theory of the case from the start, but then, importantly, it means deliberately challenging it and then changing it, when new evidence emerges. It can be a lot of paperwork and mental gymnastics. Sticking to the original theory of a case and looking for evidence to support it is what created the Birmingham Six and the Central Park Five. Completely irresponsible and incompetent police work and static minds are a liability to any good casework (see also: Donald Trump who is still trying to execute the CP5).
This isn’t really going anywhere except to note that although Sherlock was excellent at changing case-theories (and does so a lot in the books), his creator, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, of Cottingley Fairies and Harry Houdini feud fame, was so bad at it that he’d certainly have had a leadership role waiting in the West Midlands Police any time.
Ironically, the person in his most famous stories that he can be most said to resemble, is Lestrade of the Yard.
#Books #SherlockHomes #Detective #Investigation #TrustAndSafety #Fairies #Police #Crime #Houdini #Ramblings #ASIS #FlatEarth #Scientology #Radicalization #LinkedIn #B2B
@alice I talked with some people a couple of years ago about setting one up. One of the huge problems that I see is that the sort of governance and safety you really want on a dating site, especially one that deals with 2SLGBTQIA+ people, is not really compatible with a federated model.
I have given a few interviews where I say that I am expecting the concept of dating sites becoming past history, it's much easier these days to just start adding a way to identify that somebody posting to existing sites you use are willing and interested in being contacted for dating or friends purposes. Rather than answering 3000 binary questions with limited answers, people can see all you post and repost, and see for how long you have been around to give you credibility and substance. A summariser would be useful here.
You can see it happening on things like TikTok where people are hashtagging that they are available for dating. So say for example you are a Swiftie, it's immediatley obvious there that the person who is messaging you, who has been posting Swiftie posts for the last 5 years, is not some astroturfed predator profile.
It doesn't solve ALL the problems by any means... For example TikTok isn't going to remove a profile because you met in person and they assaulted you because that's not a thing that TikTok's safety teams deal with (sadly).
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Close Your Apps And Think Of England
Stefan BohacekThe ActivityPub Trust and Safety Task Force is looking for a new co-lead with experience in Trust & Safety and moderation.
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/135
#SocialWeb #SWICG #TrustAndSafety #moderation #volunteer #activitypub #fediverse
tools for commensality 🧿RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116767878695105626
as i've written elsewhere, i've stopped recommending people who are likely targets for harassment join here, and stopped inviting them, precisely because of this opening for abuse
i would LOOOVE to be able to go back to inviting people to Mastodon again 💚 ❤️
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