Chris Lowles

@chrislowles
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It's pronounced loals. Probably annoying. #1 CATCF defender. #tfr
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conservative fans of ratm in the 90s: this sounds nice, i wish i could read :/
One of those “photos to summarize the year” contenders, but like, perennially
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
Attending a Protest

For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during,...

Today it's "OSes must record users' date of birth" tomorrow "OSes must record users' assigned sex at birth".

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, GUYS
cameron winters when there's a giant spider in his automobile: THERE'S A BUG IN MY CAR
can’t wait to pull all my hair out playing this next week 🫡
Getting to have full bodied conversations about these things and almost entirely agreeing on the fact that this jaundiced, bloated nonce and the soft reboot of Adolf Hitler is the cause of it all is a very specific kind of refreshing, sucks we can't do much about it but I'll take what I can get and hope Americans have the same thing going on.