NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign

https://www.them.us/story/zohran-mamdani-trans-rights-are-human-rights-campaign

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://www.kr3bz.wtf/posts/sdmc-ne6037-router-recovery-backdoor/

During December 2025, I had to temporarily move to a different apartment due to renovations in my own. I spent most of the winter looking for potential targets to research and chose Windows Server Update Services (found a lame DoS, maybe I’ll post about it) as it was affected by some RCE vulnerabilities in 2025 and is a juicy target.

While I was preparing the lab environment, I noticed some Internet connectivity issues. I thought that it was the usual DHCP renewal every 24 hours enforced by the ISP, but then I realized that actually my wireless NIC was reconnecting to the router. OK, maybe some maintenance by the ISP? But the same dang thing started to happen more often, and I was getting irritated. So, how to fix this? Well, let’s pwn the device!

and

By promising to remove the backdoor and assign per-device passwords, SDMC implicitly admitted both that it exists and that every device currently ships with the same hardcoded root credentials even on latest firmware versions.

#internetOfShit

When an executive rejects a security recommendation, it's worth asking what would need to change for a different answer. That question reveals constraints we didn't see and persuasion paths we didn't consider.

https://zeltser.com/rejected-security-recommendations

#cybersecurity #securityleadership #CISO #infosec

I was recently asked for a breakdown of my daily device hygiene, communication stack, and physical safety boundaries, so I wrote about it. These are not my recommendations or options for others, but what I actually do myself.

https://blog.yaelwrites.com/what-my-privacy-and-security-stack-actually-looks-like/

This is how the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue

There is no conceivable way to break even for the AI industry—let alone to repay an investment that requires $2Tn a year from now to the end of the decade. That's about 3% of the entire planetary GNP. Just to break even.