My favorite IT help desk people
- documents steps for others
- remembers that a rare situation has happened before and it's able to look up what was done last time if it's the same thing
- able to handle a new situation BY READING THE INSTRUCTIONS
worth their freaking weight in gold.
SF awards eligibility 2026:
My novel "A Conventional Boy" is eligible for the Hugo and other awards for the year 2025.
"The Laundry Files" is NOT eligible for the best series Hugo award at present (even after "The Regicide Report" it falls about 65K words short of accumulating enough new material—maybe it will at some future time, but efinitely not before 2028).
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
TA584 is one of the most prominent #cybercriminal threat actors tracked by Proofpoint threat researchers. In a new blog, the team shared a detailed analysis of the threat actor, its campaigns, attack chains, targeting, payloads, and shared defensive recommendations.
Blog: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/cant-stop-wont-stop-ta584-innovates-initial-access
Our researchers have tracked #TA584 since 2020. In 2025, they observed shifts to TA584’s tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). Notably, it expanded global targeting; adopted ClickFix social engineering; and delivered new malware, Tsundere Bot.
⚠️ Such activity shows that static detections alone are not reliable against constantly evolving threat actors.
Explore the blog for more details along with protection tips, Emerging Threats Rules and IOCs.
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