randsAnswer email/Slack/messages promptly, be unfailingly kind, and don’t be a jerk. The rest is details.
Space and beer enthusiast. Decent Geezer.
CSmizzle
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Software Engineer.
I’m interested in infosec but I don’t work in infosec.
Space and beer enthusiast. Decent Geezer.
Space and beer enthusiast. Decent Geezer.
Deviant OllamHey there, internet friends. I feel like I make this request maybe once or twice a year, and I know that I generally come up with zilch... but here I go again: do I know *anybody* in New York City with a guest room who likes me enough to host me for a day or two? 😏🤞
It's not that I can't afford a hotel room when I travel. I generally can. But NYC seems uniquely positioned in the world of travel logistics in the sense that you all do not have your garden variety Courtyard Marriott or Doubletree Hilton for around $250/night...
In NYC, travelers seem to be presented with only three choices:
1. the most posh hotel you've ever heard of, for $1000/night at minimum
2. quirky boutique hotel with a 13 sq ft room, for $300/night (no rooms available)
3. battered and firebombed hostel with bunk beds bought at a Dresden fire sale, for $39/night (bag theft included for free)
... I'm just a guy trying to come into town for a weekend to see a play, hah. (And while I appreciate couch offers, I'm over 40 and no longer really do that, please forgive me for being posh)
Tinker ☀️The meeting with the local food bank with really really well!!!
They have solid relationships with a bunch of grocery stores already and they already do "big haul" food rescues as it is. That's good. That means I dont have to waste time going out and "cold calling" those folks.
But here's the thing... they are really struggling with the "small haul" food rescues.
While they have trucks and even paid drivers who can pick up large food rescues, they don't have the bandwidth to send someone to a small grocery store (think your dollar stores or small convenience stores and gas stations). Those places dont always have food rescue and if they do, its small enough to only fit in the back of an SUV or similar.
Buuuuut... that's what my group is really good at!!! We *focus* on rescues that a single person can do with their car, truck, or even their bicycle / trailer!
In fact, the food bank has FOURTEEN!!! stores lined up already that just need people to pick up the food! They have the relationship already set up. They have the places to receive the food rescue and distribute it out already set up. They just need people to pick up from point A and drop off at point B.
Well dang. Let's do it!
I've set up a next meeting with the food bank's food rescue coordinator. We'll sit down and hash out requirements. My plan is to then get one or two "test routes" put out to see if we can handle those. Once we do, we'll scale up.
I'M SO EXCITED!!!
Natasha 
🇪🇺This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings ...
Daphnis is only about 8 km wide, but its gravity disturbs Saturn's A ring, creating ripples and edge waves. It orbits within the Keeler Gap, a 42 km-wide gap in the rings. This image shows how even small moons can shape massive ring systems.
⬇️ It's a render from 2016 by Kevin Gill. Lots of discussions in the replies.
Troy HuntIt finally happened - I got phished. Impact is limited to the Mailchimp mailing list for my blog, brief blog post with details here and more to come later: https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account and exported the mailing
Wonder of ScienceThis is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.
Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
BrianKrebsIf you want to learn how Chinese phishing or "smishing" groups are turning phished card data into mobile wallets, check out today's story. The innovation coming out of these groups is remarkable, and includes mobile apps that let thieves relay "ghost tap" NFC transactions to a payment terminal from halfway around the world.
What I find most remarkable is how millions of businesses have spent years and billions of dollars upgrading payment terminals to use more secure chip-based cards. And now these phishers come along and just bypass all of that, creating Apple and Google mobile wallets with the phished card data and a one-time code.
Here's the lede:
Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/how-phished-data-turns-into-apple-google-wallets/
Pro-tip. If you are asking me to donate to your political cause using the same tired tropes that didn’t work last time, you are failing. Again.
Electronic Frontier FoundationBREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.
Andy GreenbergAs an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison.
Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-crypto-crimefighters-descent-nigerian-prison-binance/
