André 3001
@andrevdw.bsky.social
Cyber Janitor. Mangler of machines.
Defender of the realm.
Defender of the realm.
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Glad to see the Ombudsman for Children leaving X. The office is on Bluesky - @ocoireland.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Glad to see the Ombudsman for Children leaving X. The office is on Bluesky - @ocoireland.bsky.social
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If you're in the UK and have Facebook, a woman is giving away her late father's PDP-8/L based in Bristol. Schematics included.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
If you're in the UK and have Facebook, a woman is giving away her late father's PDP-8/L based in Bristol. Schematics included.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...
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Mac users found their Logitech mice stopped working because someone at Logitech forgot to renew an expired app certificate.
*pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly for the rest of time*
*pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly for the rest of time*
Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate
That’s one heck of an oversight.
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Mac users found their Logitech mice stopped working because someone at Logitech forgot to renew an expired app certificate.
*pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly for the rest of time*
*pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly for the rest of time*
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Not the "pulling a Rabbit out of a hat" magic trick that most want. This Firefox extension completely changes from a "Simple Label Editor" to a Rabby wallet stealer overnight.
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Not the "pulling a Rabbit out of a hat" magic trick that most want. This Firefox extension completely changes from a "Simple Label Editor" to a Rabby wallet stealer overnight.
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Look at this collapse in StackOverflow post creation! Over 186,000 in April 2022 to just 3800 in December 2025.
data.stackexchange.c...
data.stackexchange.c...
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Look at this collapse in StackOverflow post creation! Over 186,000 in April 2022 to just 3800 in December 2025.
data.stackexchange.c...
data.stackexchange.c...
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Emails waiting and ready to circle back now that it's the new year
January 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Emails waiting and ready to circle back now that it's the new year
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For social media companies, the fight against tech regulation has nothing to do with free speech but everything to do with continuing to generate profit from the scam industry, which is stealing money from their users, without oversight or accountability.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...
www.reuters.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For social media companies, the fight against tech regulation has nothing to do with free speech but everything to do with continuing to generate profit from the scam industry, which is stealing money from their users, without oversight or accountability.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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My teammate Asger Deleuran Strunk worked on a case where the TA tried to dump LSASS with procdump on a server, resulting in Defender blocking the attempt:
December 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My teammate Asger Deleuran Strunk worked on a case where the TA tried to dump LSASS with procdump on a server, resulting in Defender blocking the attempt:
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Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
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Stealing Microsoft Teams access tokens in 2025 - Randorisec - blog.randorisec.fr/ms-teams-acc...
Stealing Microsoft Teams access tokens in 2025
RandoriSec Offensive Security
blog.randorisec.fr
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Stealing Microsoft Teams access tokens in 2025 - Randorisec - blog.randorisec.fr/ms-teams-acc...
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G DATA's Karsten Hahn documents a few browser hijacking techniques and also suggests a new malware type: unlike a RAT, this malware doesn't control the whole computer, and Karsten coins the term BRAT—a browser remote access tool. www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2025/11...
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
G DATA's Karsten Hahn documents a few browser hijacking techniques and also suggests a new malware type: unlike a RAT, this malware doesn't control the whole computer, and Karsten coins the term BRAT—a browser remote access tool. www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2025/11...
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We are familiar with eMClient and axios, so let me introduce Trufflehog, the new kid on the block.
Trufflehog made headlines during the recent "Shai-Hulud" campaign, in which threat actors used it to search for passwords and sensitive information. [1] According to the Trufflehog GitHub page:
Trufflehog made headlines during the recent "Shai-Hulud" campaign, in which threat actors used it to search for passwords and sensitive information. [1] According to the Trufflehog GitHub page:
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We are familiar with eMClient and axios, so let me introduce Trufflehog, the new kid on the block.
Trufflehog made headlines during the recent "Shai-Hulud" campaign, in which threat actors used it to search for passwords and sensitive information. [1] According to the Trufflehog GitHub page:
Trufflehog made headlines during the recent "Shai-Hulud" campaign, in which threat actors used it to search for passwords and sensitive information. [1] According to the Trufflehog GitHub page:
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EMAIL WRAPPED 2025
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
EMAIL WRAPPED 2025
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
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Whoever designed the FIFA trophy seems to be unclear on the single most basic rule in soccer
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Whoever designed the FIFA trophy seems to be unclear on the single most basic rule in soccer
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you press and hold the space bar on your phone keyboard, sliding your finger will control the position of the cursor when you're editing text
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you press and hold the space bar on your phone keyboard, sliding your finger will control the position of the cursor when you're editing text
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Learned today that around 1990, Mercedes-Benz briefly offered a "mobile office" package for the W126 S-Class that included a fully functioning printer, scanner, and fax machine built into an armrest.
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Learned today that around 1990, Mercedes-Benz briefly offered a "mobile office" package for the W126 S-Class that included a fully functioning printer, scanner, and fax machine built into an armrest.
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The EU single market’s elephant in the room on.ft.com/4izH73J
The EU single market’s elephant in the room
Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm
on.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The EU single market’s elephant in the room on.ft.com/4izH73J
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We’ve published new research from the EU co-funded project NGSOTI: “Learning from large-scale IPv4 blackhole: Behavioral analysis of SNMP traffic”.
Over a 12-month period (Nov 2024–Oct 2025), our network telescope captured ~634 million unsolicited SNMP queries from more than 153,000 unique IPv4 […]
Over a 12-month period (Nov 2024–Oct 2025), our network telescope captured ~634 million unsolicited SNMP queries from more than 153,000 unique IPv4 […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We’ve published new research from the EU co-funded project NGSOTI: “Learning from large-scale IPv4 blackhole: Behavioral analysis of SNMP traffic”.
Over a 12-month period (Nov 2024–Oct 2025), our network telescope captured ~634 million unsolicited SNMP queries from more than 153,000 unique IPv4 […]
Over a 12-month period (Nov 2024–Oct 2025), our network telescope captured ~634 million unsolicited SNMP queries from more than 153,000 unique IPv4 […]
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There's a prevailing idea in the UK that a customs union with the EU would be a compromise solution if single market membership is not possible, e.g @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social recently. But a customs union is, from a trade policy, a more radical step. (1/N)
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There's a prevailing idea in the UK that a customs union with the EU would be a compromise solution if single market membership is not possible, e.g @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social recently. But a customs union is, from a trade policy, a more radical step. (1/N)
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The government could, of course, just fix the bizarre (and bad) flaw in the tax system that makes people pay a marginal rate of 62% (or 71% with student loans) at £100k, vs 42% at £99k or £126k – which is why people use salary sacrifice.
They could do this in ways that *raise more revenue*.
They could do this in ways that *raise more revenue*.
FT WEEKEND: Ukraine deal risks loss of dignity or US support, Zelenskyy warns #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The government could, of course, just fix the bizarre (and bad) flaw in the tax system that makes people pay a marginal rate of 62% (or 71% with student loans) at £100k, vs 42% at £99k or £126k – which is why people use salary sacrifice.
They could do this in ways that *raise more revenue*.
They could do this in ways that *raise more revenue*.
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“Silently patching vulnerabilities is an established bad practice that enables attackers and harms defenders." @catc0n.bsky.social
decipher.sc/2025/11/17/f...
decipher.sc/2025/11/17/f...
Fortinet CVE-2025-64446 Under Active Attack - Decipher
That vulnerability (CVE-2025-64446) affects several versions of FortiWeb and CISA has added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
decipher.sc
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Silently patching vulnerabilities is an established bad practice that enables attackers and harms defenders." @catc0n.bsky.social
decipher.sc/2025/11/17/f...
decipher.sc/2025/11/17/f...
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Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, plus photos for half and profile text for more than a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
www.wired.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, plus photos for half and profile text for more than a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...