Chris Boyd

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Award winning Infosec researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame (2006) | Keeper of the visa and the colander | 🇬🇧​ 🇵🇭​
Paperghost.comhttps://www.paperghost.com/p/about-me.html
Chris BoydNov 6, 2023
rounding off a decade of research with my final talk for malwarebytes at this year's virus bulletin conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDcKHsvXOY the full paper about visa and immigration scams can be found here: https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference/vb2023/papers/The-history-and-tactics-of-visa-centric-scams-in-search-spam-and-social-apps.pdf
The history & tactics of visa-centric scams in search, spam, & social apps Chris Boyd (Malwarebytes)

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Chris BoydSep 11, 2023
I'll be looking for work from next month. If you know of a UK based, full-time remote position in security (I research but I usually - but not always! - report to marketing as everything I do is public facing) then by all means let me know. linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/paperghost/
Chris BoydMay 5, 2023
i had to play counter strike for work purposes which was somewhat novel https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/evading-russian-media-restrictions-with-custom-video-game-maps
Newspaper evades Russian censors, hides news in Counter-Strike map

We take a look at one newspaper's innovative way of bypassing Russian media restrictions.

Malwarebytes
Chris BoydMay 5, 2023
Jonty WareingMay 4, 2023

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

Chris BoydMay 4, 2023
i'll be giving my first talk in 6 years in october at VB2023. it is, of course, about visas because i am relentlessly on brand https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2023/
Virus Bulletin :: VB2023

Chris BoydMar 11, 2023
had my hernia op last sunday, and it's a sign of how spectacularly badly everything went wrong that this is the first time i've been able to hold a phone up. won't be online for a while, but on the bright side i've discovered that you can't get rid of me that easily
Chris BoydMar 4, 2023

"sam raimi loves first person, off center camera zooms and pans. He's not meant for the genre (comics)"

you think you've seen all of the bad takes, and then whoops! here's another one

Show threadChris BoydMar 4, 2023
the most fun part so far: i was given my operation date on tuesday. they also told me that i need to supply an nhs covid test ordered from the gov.uk website 3 days in advance of the op or be refused admission, and that it can take "up to 10 working days" to receive the test through the post. thankfully it turned up on wednesday because i mean
Chris BoydMar 4, 2023
after a few false starts and a row of computers basically shutting down forever after i walked in the door of the hospital, i'm finally having my hernia operation tomorrow
Show threadChris BoydMar 2, 2023
lmao some of them are FLYING. this is the greatest CAPTCHA i have ever seen, my god