Mastodawn

Dec 1, 2024

Allison Nixon Nov 29, 2024

Who wants to be next?

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/accused-kitchener-hacker-unmasked-after-threatening-woman-online/article_3501ea8b-1514-5524-8de6-f52e92c3e103.html

Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online

Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221B, a U.S. cybersecurity firm.

Metroland Media

Matt Held

Nov 27, 2024

Joseph Cox Nov 27, 2024

The Economist calls DARK WIRE, my book on the FBI's secret running of a tech company for organized crime, as one of the best books of the year.

"The author spent years getting to know the players, many of them unsavoury international gangsters." https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/22/the-best-books-of-2024-as-chosen-by-the-economist

The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist

Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies

The Economist

Das Auto

Looking for a fun & cyberpunk-y way to flex your scripting muscles? Check out Bitburner—a distopian, relaxing hacking sim where you write scripts to hack, automate, & grow your empire. https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/ #Infosec #HackingGames

Bitburner

Matt Held

Nov 25, 2024

A 35 year old Chinese man was arrested in Bangkok, driving around populated areas with a "SMS blaster" (fake base station) with a 3km radius coverage sending ~1,000,000 phishing SMS messages per hour." Phone users within range received a message stating: “Your 9,268 points are about to expire! Hurry up and redeem your gift now”. This was followed by a URL for phishing website."

This is the arrest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELn9cpMvs4

1. Nice music!
2. Nice setup!
3. Why so many LEDs tho? This ain't a Tuktuk!
4. I like the CYBER Police Jackets!

จับกุมแก๊งจีนเทา ใช้เครื่องส่ง SMS ปลอม (False Base Station) ส่งข้อความเกือบล้านครั้ง

YouTube

Matt Held

Nov 25, 2024

Daniel Kuhl ✌🏻☮️☕️Nov 25, 2024

Did you know that there are exciting escape rooms and challenging red/blue team scenarios available at Check Point’s Cyber Park website? You can purchase scenarios or use existing IGS points.

Some escape rooms are free to play… Take a look! 🤓

#CheckPoint #cyberpark #cybersecurity #redteam #blueteam

https://cyberpark.checkpoint.com/

Cyber Park By Check Point

Innovative Cyber Security Training challenges and Gaming platform

Matt Held

Nov 13, 2024

Micah Lee Nov 13, 2024

I haven't been posting so much recently but it’s because I’m hard at work writing lots of code to make it easy for everyone to delete all their shit from X. Good riddance. Will be released extremely soon

Matt Held

Nov 11, 2024

Peter Lowe Nov 11, 2024

OK, let's try this again.

December 11: I WILL be talking about Blocking Ads with Domains for an ICANN webinar!

Details here:

https://www.icann.org/en/engagement-calendar/details/icann-webinar-series-europe-blocking-ads-and-trackers-at-the-domain-level-2024-10-23

ICANN Webinar Series - Europe: Blocking Ads and Trackers at the Domain Level

View details and how to join the ICANN Webinar Series - Europe: Blocking Ads and Trackers at the Domain Level event on Wednesday 11 December 2024.

Matt Held

Mar 16, 2024

Last week, I found myself stranded at an airport for 24 hours thanks to the world's longest yet least effective security checks, which caused me to miss my connecting flight. While I'm sure there's a brilliant lesson or metaphor hidden in this ordeal, I seem to be missing the boarding call on that one.

I don’t understand how people can fall for #phishing! All you have to do is check whether the domain is valid.

Like the following example obviously is phishing because…

Oh, it's the actual website of a German ministry?

🤦‍♂️

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