Chris Partridge

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CloudSec manager at that online-bookstore-slash-server-rental company, adjunct professor at RIT, former janitor for r/cybersecurity, and sporadic FOSS contributor. Cat person. Generally cheerful ^_^

Always trying to learn new things, and I'd rather be corrected than be correct. I try to be correct the first time anyway though!

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Blogginghttps://chris.partridge.tech
GitHubhttps://github.com/tweedge
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Chris Partridge4h ago
Hmm. Phishing kits are putting more and more effort into blocking automatic security scanners. This is a relatively short set of evasion rules - I'm seeing some kits with eight *entire files* worth of rules of what IPs, hostnames, user agents, etc. to block.
Chris PartridgeMar 1

Executive dysfunction be damned that boy can write one (1) blog post every fourteen (14) months.

I can tell it's tax season based on the IRS-impersonating email spam and #malware landing in my inbox. It's not a sophisticated campaign, but they did some things right I got a good chuckle from the things they did wrong (gif attached of the "IRS" webpage I was directed to) 😁

Post here: https://chris.partridge.tech/2026/tax-season-irs-impersonation-malware/

Hope you enjoy and good luck to the USA on our overcomplicated taxes as always.

Show threadChris PartridgeFeb 28
I'm just excited for there to maybe be cases where people could take money away from the gambling companies that are working so hard on addicting America to betting on literally anything.
Chris PartridgeFeb 22
Yeesh. Over the span of a week, nearly half of the DNS queries made from my grandmother's network (a Windows computer, a 'smart' TV, an iPad, and a couple safety devices) are for tracking/logging/etc. she did not consent to. This is after putting adblock on her browser, and this is what remains from native apps and OS-level reporting. Gross. PiHole and other DNS ad-blockers/filters are in no way a silver bullet but they're better than nothing... :/
Chris PartridgeFeb 9
That's so sick. I have a directional access point ("Barn Directional AP") outside which is pointed upwards at about 15-20 degrees. It's intermittently picking up *very faint* 2.4 GHz broadcasts of onboard WiFi from planes overhead, which are flying at around 2,000 ft as they come in towards the Rochester airport (per flightradar24).
Chris PartridgeFeb 2

UDM Pro owners, for some reason (...cost?) all of the 1Gb ports share a switch chip, which is on a shared 1Gb link to the CPU. For local, L2 switching: it's fine: your traffic can be line rate, no problem. For L3 routing - whether going to another LAN or going to WAN - all ports share 1Gb.

I found this out by putting a bunch of traffic-intensive machines on that switch that saturated the 1Gb connection to the CPU and were noticeably slower. Whoops.

Block diagram from: https://ubntwiki.com/products/unifi/unifi_dream_machine_pro

Chris PartridgeMay 10, 2025
Dimitri is very curious about you for #caturday
Chris PartridgeApr 2, 2025

#uspol Federal grants that my mom's department uses to study long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease have been withdrawn, and an accompanying letter bearing RFK Jr.'s signature decried their work as unscientific and a waste of money.

This is especially sad to our family as her father/my grandfather had Alzheimer's for many years before he passed.

To sustain the fight against Alzheimer's, consider donating to https://alz.org

Sad day. Just had to vent.

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Chris PartridgeJan 24, 2025

Need a copy of the 15k FortiGate configs leak from the Belsen Group (collected in 2022, leaked in Jan 2025)? They started charging $100. Donate that money to charity instead - here it is for free, thanks to Redditors who got it before Belsen Group started charging.

https://chris.partridge.tech/data/belsen-group-fortigate-config-leak/

Belsen Group FortiGate Config Leak - Free Torrent Download | tweedge's blog

A mirror of the FortiGate configs (from 2022) leaked by the Belsen Group in 2025, since researchers were struggling to get this from the Belsen Group's Tor s...

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Show threadChris PartridgeJan 24, 2025
@github GitHub Trust and Safety 1. correctly identified that "baiting people into running SmartLoader malware" violated GitHub's ToS on Jan 22nd but 2. declined to remove the malware-serving account or repository and it's still up as of Jan 24th. #GitHub #malware