APT ate my homework

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I'm a teapot.

Occasionally I post about security stuff.

@Viss that skid from your talk doing the crappy exploits seems to have forgotten the shift key - which is a very basic problem I encountered when first messing around with VNC scripting.

Flexispy told to get lost: good riddance to them.

Shame it took so long.

https://www.hackerone.com/blog/ethical-considerations-of-access-to-the-HackerOne-community

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38934822

Today's trash fire. The quotes from the CEO are pure gold.

"Updates actually cause a cascading effect and now you're patching patches and that is not a good place to be in," he told Click.

Today's incident: SIEM detects suspicious user-agent.

Tracing through the events, it looks like the cause is a user using a chinese browser to read chinese books.

The DC is running bare-metal, and is hosting Hyper-V instances beneath it.

How is that configuration even -allowed-?

Heads-up to another scam targeting Apple device owners. If you get an unexpected message telling you of problems with an account (any account), there's a high probability it is a #phishing scam. Your best bet is to log into the account at the address you know (NOT the link in the email) and check for yourself. #ScamAware

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/04/06/icloud-mail-phishing/

If you search, does that cover all federated instances?
Deleted my previous post because inaccuracy. Better version: People are getting here by word of mouth, which means they will go to the instance they are told about. This will cause a lot of people to go to the same place. That being the case, would it not be better to put more emphasis on the possibility of choice in the intro? A brief reference and a fine-print link are very easily overlooked. @bcrypt @Gargron
Wait, wait, everyone. If you're teaching someone how to use Mastodon, are you giving them a... toot-orial?
How on earth is this place not going to get sued into the ground by Twitter? It looks like a straight clone, all the verbs are obvious variations... I love what it is, but it seems like a massive risk.