AJCxZ0

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Doing Mastodon wrong on purpose: here only for Information Security (which I have done professionally and unprofessionally involving unix platforms for decades), elsewhere for other things.

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Avatar is Mr. Flibble from the episode "Quarantine" of the TV series "Red Dwarf".
Header image is Arnold J. Rimmer with Mr. Flibble.
Mr. Flibble s very cross.

GitHubhttps://github.com/AJCxZ0
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OwnerH.A.L. Plant (halplant.com)
Show threadAJCxZ0Feb 18

Risky Business Features presented by James Wilson is the newest podcast in the @riskybusiness media empire.

https://risky.biz/risky-business-features/
https://risky.biz/feeds/risky-business-features

The first episode, "History Repeats: Security in the AI Agent Era", addresses our new best friend, OpenClaw.

Risky Business Features Podcast - Risky Business Media

Risky Business Features Podcast

AJCxZ0Dec 12
DecipherDec 10

Oh hey, new podcast is out. It's a fascinating conversation with former CIA officer and ODNI cybersecurity official Erin Whitmore. Very interesting story.

https://youtu.be/u9pMZrMOW-E?si=OCgxVeRBPFy7T8cz

From CIA Officer to a Career in Cybersecurity With Erin Whitmore

YouTube
AJCxZ0Nov 20

The latest Risky Biz Soap Box podcast episode, "Greynoise knows when bad bugs are coming", with @riskybusiness and @morris is exceptionally edutaining.

https://risky.biz/soapbox102
https://risky.biz/feeds/risky-business

Even if I am blind to my nominative prejudice, Andrew Morris (@morris) should be at least co-host of a semi-regular podcast like Wide World of Cyber, but uncensored.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Greynoise knows when bad bugs are coming - Risky Business Media

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast, Andrew Morris joins Patrick Gray to talk about how Greynoise can often get a 90 day hea [Read More]

AJCxZ0Nov 20
Show threadBrianKrebsNov 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI
Hal 9000 sings Daisy

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AJCxZ0Nov 20

The most frustrating thing about this book is that it stops in the past, rather than continuing to narrate this history right up to the present, then predicting what happens next.

Robertson Dean narrates engagingly.

#DavidESanger #RobertsonDean #ThePerfectWeapon #Book #Audiobook #NewYorkTimes #CyberWar #CyberWeapons #CyberSecurity #InformationSecurity #ElectionSecurity #NationalSecurity #Stuxnet #OperationOlympicGames #USGovernment #NationalSecurityAgency #NSA #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CIA #USCyberCommand #USCYBERCOM

AJCxZ0Oct 31

"Aardvark works by monitoring commits and changes to codebases, identifying vulnerabilities, how they might be exploited, and proposing fixes."

https://openai.com/index/introducing-aardvark/

"If your organization or open source project is interested in joining [the Aardvark private beta.], you can apply here⁠."

https://www.openai.com/form/aardvark-beta-signup

#Aardvark @TheAntAndTheAardvark #ThePinkPantherShow #OpenAI #InformationSecurity #InfoSec #BugHunting

Show threadAJCxZ0Oct 30

Not only is Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) still sending these, but they still have no multi-factor authentication for accounts.

From https://www.cisecurity.org/about-us

The CIS Vision
Leading the global community to secure our ever-changing connected world.

The CIS Mission
Our mission is to make the connected world a safer place by developing, validating, and
promoting timely best practice solutions that help people, businesses, and governments
protect themselves against pervasive cyber threats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51gf648nRyE&t=118s

#Phishing #ComplianceVsSecurity #CIS #CenterForInternetSecurity #MFA #2FA #InfoSec #InformationSecurity #CyberSecurity

About us - CIS®

CIS is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks®, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data.

Center for Internet Security
AJCxZ0Sep 29

Lobot: Cyborg responsible for systems and operations with unclear motives and allegiances.
Atom Eins: Cyborg responsible for systems and operations with unclear motives and allegiances.
Jerry Bell (@jerry): ...

#AlienEarth #StarWars #EmpireStrikesBack #DefensiveSecurity

AJCxZ0Sep 3, 2025

A welcome return of the podcast @Deciphersec with @dennisf and @LindseyODWelch

https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/228511.rss
https://decipher.sc/2025/09/02/decipher-is-everyone/

AJCxZ0Aug 5, 2025

From OpenAI concerning their new gpt-oss open-weight language models: ESTIMATING WORST-CASE FRONTIER RISKS OF OPEN-WEIGHT LLMS, in which they tried to make it hack by giving it a terminal in a container and limited web access, but it wasn't very good with computers (compared to o3 and some humans).

gpt-oss blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/
paper blog post: https://openai.com/index/estimating-worst-case-frontier-risks-of-open-weight-llms/
paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/231bf018-659a-494d-976c-2efdfc72b652/oai_gpt-oss_Model_Safety.pdf

It wasn't a good bio-terrorist either, unlike Leah.

#InformationSecurity #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Hacking #CaptureTheFlag #AI #GenerativeAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #OpenAI #GPT #GPTOSS #OpenWeight #MaliciousFineTuning #MFT