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Phish wrangler. Insatiably curious.

Since CISA killed it's RSS feed[1], If anyone is interested, I created an account here that will allow anyone to subscribe both via the fediverse and via RSS using the mastodon RSS feed for that account. The account is @cisareflector

1. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/05/12/update-how-cisa-shares-cyber-related-alerts-and-notifications

By popular demand, I have given the community public access to my personal threat actor naming system: the Cyberthreatarator.

https://falling-anvil.com/cyberthreaterator/

CyberThreaterator

A later-than-usual ~this week in security~ is out:

• Western Digital outage following security incident
• Police seize Genesis Market, home to stolen logins
• Alcohol recovery startups shared patients' private data
• Cyber in-fighting at the White House
• DOD is investigating classified data leak... on Discord
• Apple fixes iOS bug under attack
• A brand new cyber cat, and more.

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It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.

You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.

Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.

What makes Windows 11 so much better is that instead of using 1's and 0's, Windows 11 only uses 1's.
Cyber Security is a human good when it makes the practice of society predictable and reliable. That is what builds prosperity. It is not simply in defense of your corporate profits. It is defending the commons. To make everyone else's work be work, instead of nullified waste discarded upon the trash heap of seized systems.
I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.
@hacks4pancakes Gorgeous! Is that wallpaper or did you stencil the stars?

From Entrepreneur Magazine: Shopify Is Canceling Meetings For Two Weeks As a Test

"The meetings will be reevaluated after the two-week period, but the company suggests employees "be really critical" about putting them back on, per the memo obtained by CNN.

Shopify will further enforce "no-meeting Wednesdays" and implement a rule that meetings with over 50 people can only be held in a certain time window on Thursdays."

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/shopify-clears-employee-meetings-calendars/442216

Shopify Clears Employee Meetings, Calendars

The e-commerce company is pushing back on some 70,000 hours of employee meetings -- and encouraging them not to reschedule.

Entrepreneur
@hacks4pancakes you are amazing, and I could not be happier!