Victor Gevers

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The AI Gold Rush: Boom or Bubble? - Victor Gevers - Medium

The technology sector has enthusiastically and rapidly embraced the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI), capturing stock market participants' keen interest and substantial…

Medium

Voor de allerlaatste keer mag ik een korte toelichting geven over de politiezaak in Brighton, waarbij ontbrekende multifactor beveiliging en een te gemakkelijk te raden wachtwoord hebben geleid tot toegang tot het Twitter-account van de voormalige president van Amerika."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xyFCTyhf0Ict3zDAb7O23?si=nseHRoJYS8icO54uwZBYEA

De hack die de wereld had kunnen veranderen

Listen to this episode from Takedown on Spotify. Wat doe je als je jezelf als hacker toegang hebt verschaft tot een online account van één de machtigste personen ter wereld? Victor Gevers belandt in een bijzondere positie als hij doet wat hij altijd doet: als ethisch hacker zwaktes in computersystemen opsporen. En dat heeft alles te maken met zijn doelwit: de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump.Zonder al te veel moeite weet Victor in te breken in het Twitter-account van Trump, in een periode dat dit zo ongeveer het allerbelangrijkste communicatiekanaal voor het Witte Huis is. Daarmee belandt Victor onverwacht op het wereldtoneel, met alle risico's van dien. Vanaf dat moment wordt Team High Tech Crime bij de zaak betrokken. Hoe voorkomen de teamleden dat deze hack leidt tot allerlei ongewenste reacties vanuit de Verenigde Staten? En heeft hij binnen de legale kaders gebruikgemaakt van zijn hacking-skills? Meer weten over deze aflevering? Check het hier.Team High Tech Crime heeft als doel om Nederland veiliger en minder aantrekkelijk maken voor cybercriminelen. De politie is daarvoor altijd op zoek naar nieuwe collega's. Nieuwsgierig? Bekijk jouw mogelijkheden.Wij zijn benieuwd wat jij van deze podcast vindt, vul onze korte enquête in en laat het ons weten.Takedown is een XTR branded podcast in samenwerking met audio agency Airborne en de politie.

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Finally, this week is finally over. What a train wreck. I think I am going to do absolutely nothing this weekend. My motivation has never dropped so low. :-( https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/24/suspect-major-data-theft-case-linked-dutch-subsidized-cybersecurity-org-report
Suspect in major data theft case linked to Dutch-subsidized cybersecurity org.: report

One of three hackers recently arrested for large-scale data theft was active for cyber security organization DIVD, sources told NOS. DIVD is a government-subsidized association of Dutch security experts that researches unsafe computer systems.

NL Times
I just woke up on the first workday of the year, and I have failed instantly to keep up with my strides. Every now and again, a swing and a miss is a sign you are trying to do it better. :-)
"Take the initiative and do what you think needs to be done without waiting for permission. It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Make sure you do and bring in the research to back you up."

Microsoft recently published an article on "Vulnerable SDK components lead to supply chain risks in IoT and OT environments" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/22/vulnerable-sdk-components-lead-to-supply-chain-risks-in-iot-and-ot-environments/) where they highlight the dangers of vulnerable IoT devices using Boa webservers.

We recently added Boa fingerprints to our scans, which you can now view on our public Dashboard: https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/iot-devices/tree/?day=2022-12-08&vendor=boa&geo=all&data_set=count&scale=log

There are at least 467k IPs on 2022-12-08. Most in South Korea (74.9K), India (62.8K) & Vietnam (59.7K).

We also see a large number of attacks in our sensors coming from devices with Boa, which you can track here: https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/honeypot/monitoring/vendor/?category=monitoring&statistic=unique_ips

Data on accessible Boa devices is shared daily in our Device Identification report: https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/device-identification-report/

Data on attacks seen coming from Boa devices is shared in our honeypot and darknet reports, for example - https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/honeypot-http-scanner-events/

Vulnerable SDK components lead to supply chain risks in IoT and OT environments - Microsoft Security Blog

As vulnerabilities in network components, architecture files, and developer tools have become an increasingly popular attack vector to leverage access into secure networks and devices, Microsoft identified such a vulnerable component and found evidence of a supply chain risk that might affect millions of organizations and devices.

Microsoft Security Blog
Make sure you download an archive of your Twitter data before you leave voluntarily or get banned from the Twitter platform. It can take a while before the library is ready for download.
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive
How to download your Twitter archive and Tweets | Twitter Help

It's easy to download your Twitter archive from your first Tweet to your last. Here's how.

Please make sure to "back up" your posts on Mastodon if you are concerned about censorship or if the server you are on suddenly disappears. This Fediverse contains bright shining stars but beware of supernovas. It only takes a few seconds to add your profile to the internet archive (Waybackmachine) via https://archive.org/ and https://archive.ph/
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