NZSmartie

@nzsmartie
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Security Consultant, Electronics are my veins, with angry pixies as my blood. Adorer of many cartoons including gems and ponies 💎💠🐲🦄
PronounsHe/Him
CountryNew Zealand
Well I just got double charged for @Patreon, the first two on 3rd March is two different currencies, but the 4th of March looks to be a duplicate of one of payments from the 3rd...

Vulnerability of the week (or maybe the year?):

This UNMANAGED network switch, has an undocumented management function. Please install a firmware update on your UNMANAGED network switch to remove the function. I guess. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3843 .

NVD - CVE-2022-3843

Hey friends - we have news on Kawaiicon: https://kawaiicon.org/

It was a real tough call to make, the crüe and I care for the community dearly. Last year was hard, and there is just too many other things going on this year to do it right.

In the meantime, do cool stuff and be excellent to each other. We hope to bring back that sparkly stage for you soon.

Kawaiicon 2025

Infosec, but cuter.

Kawaiicon 2025
Did a much better job of encapsulating this one too.
When everyone is adding multiple \n to the start of their log messages just so it's more visible... I feel like everyone is missing the point?
Why isn't there a URI for wifi credntials, for example: guest network access that friends can easily tap on with their phones in a group chat?

This is pretty near:

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!

TL;DR;

Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!

1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

Swipe right on our new credit card tokens!

Thinkst Thoughts

If your take is trying to both-sides transphobia

I will just ban you

We had a lot of fun with this over the last two weeks of the year. @szczys wrote device side code on an @adafruit MagTag and then a Slackbot to process images we could push to everyone in the company.

https://blog.golioth.io/move-over-internet-of-things-i-built-the-internet-of-memes/

Move over Internet of Things, I built the Internet of Memes - Golioth

These internet-connected ePaper devices are on the desk of every Golioth employee. Now we can upload memes to them all.

Golioth