Scott Wilson

@scottwilson@infosec.exchange
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27+ year information security “professional”.

I like non-alcoholic #beer, #gardening and yardwork, playing guitar, and reading #books (mystery, thriller, suspense, #scifi, fantasy, astrophysics, and cosmology).

Stage IIIB #ColorectalCancer survivor.

I'm a middle-aged, middle class Christian, husband, dad, doggy-daddy, and friend. I’m supporter of #LGBTQIA rights, a #BlackLivesMatter advocate, a believer in #TransRights and proponent of equality. I support #Ukraine.

Only hand-crafted, artisanal memes.

Posts are on auto-delete (1 week).

Home Pagehttps://bscottwilson.com
Codehttps://codeberg.org/bswilson

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Someone has gone through and run the numbers on molestation crimes against children.

67% of politicians accused or convicted of child abuse nationwide were Republicans.

QAnon needs to look in the mirror.

Out of nearly 11,000 USA cases examined, just 1 offender was a drag queen. Only 5 were trans. 846 were religious figures. 301 were police.

Date range: February 10, 2023 through May 23, 2024

Source: https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators

#notadragqueen #lgbtqia #trans #TransRights

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Breach of 16 billion passwords...

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#Aflac seems to be dealing with a cyberattack.

They've "identified suspicious activity on its network in the U.S. that may impact Social Security numbers and other personal information."

Furthermore, the company is "in the early stages of a review of the incident, and so far is unable to determine the total number of affected individuals."

#infosec #cybersecurity #incident

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/aflac-cyberattack-breach-expose-personal-data-customers/story?id=123035688

Aflac says cyberattack breach could expose personal data of customers

Aflac is the latest victim in a string of cyberattacks against insurance firms.

ABC News

For those who haven't given up completely on #Firefox, version 140 comes out next Tuesday, 24 June.

A couple of interesting changes; first, all the Pocket integration will be removed...  

But also, custom search engines will now be fully supported. That seems good.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0beta/releasenotes/

Firefox Beta 140.0beta, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

Mozilla

I found an interesting Microsoft Recall issue with the latest version - Recall is enabled on my PC, but the tray icon (bottom right) saying it is running is missing.

Edit: after a reboot, it's back. I'll keep an eye on it. After the latest Windows Update the UI wasn't visible, but it was still recording.

-New SERPENTINE#CLOUD, Mocha Manakin, and Banana Squad groups
-Scammers abuse search parameter injections
-Qilin rises as top RaaS
-Malware reports on Meowstorio, LightPerlGirl, GodFather
-New SHOE RACK and UMBRELLA STAND malware targets Fortinet devices
-BlueNoroff's Zoom attack
-Famous Chollima's new PylangGhost malware
-New BeyondTrust RCEs
-Two new Linux LPEs
-Another dumb Erlang/OTP bug
-Cisco and Citrix updates
-Bitdefenedr buys email security firm Mesh
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@beep me too, hayao miyazaki, me too
@kayserifserif he speaks for you, for me, for so many of us

@beep "AN INSULT TO LIFE ITSELF!"

Never truer words spoken

#HayaoMiyasaki #AI

@Lazarou @beep
Naps are crucial for balance.

AI: generates meaningless drivel with fake gravitas.
Humans: quote it back like it’s scripture.

We have officially reached the ‘Morpheus from The Matrix but make it vibes’ stage of the discourse.

Also, lay off the em dashes. dashremover.com

@beep the best nap of his life, while AI work
@beep Two guys who have no idea why people don't use AI, published a few pages from a deep dive into all the people who have gone mad and become suicidal when ChatGPT convinced them the world isn't real and they can jump off buildings.
@beep name.one person who uses "#AI" unsarcastically...
@beep That's an insulated bubble headline if I have ever seen one.
I would assume the article is LLM slop, because the fictional writer would be someone who uses LLm slop for everything.
@beep today in the final middle-school exam a student of mine has brought the exact first four lines of the boilerplate AI answer of a google search for that topic. Sadly, neither google nor the student had any idea that the paragraph the AI had vomited had nothing to do with the painting they were supposed to write about. It just so happened that the title of that painting has very different meaning in different context (I know, wild). Neither the student nor the AI seemed to care.
@beep embrace the future (enshittification through incompetence)
@beep @nullagent Reminds me of the Iraq War WMD discourse. No, not “everybody”, silly groupthinking NYT.
@beep: That headline is a rare exception to Betteridge's Law, even if I suspect from the source that it's a defence of LLM slop.
@beep I don't need to read for 9 minutes to answer that question lmao