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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 03:00:24 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Go look at the U.S. federal vaccines hub -- do it now

   Just scroll down a bit:

   https://es.vaccines.gov/

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 03:01:05 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Bruce Heerssen

     @bruce @lauren It's likely a dangling hostname - it points to AWS, someone managed to get that IP.

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 03:01:06 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     @lauren

     I noticed the "es" subdomain, but I don't know what it signifies. In any case, was this a hack? A disgruntled employee? An otherwise innocuous page that was used in a way its designers didn't intend?

     I think it's hilarious, but I'm just confused.

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 03:01:09 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     @lauren

     That's very funny, but what's actually going on there? Aside from the .gov domain, it doesn't seem to be a federal website?

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 03:01:09 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Bruce Heerssen

     @bruce If it's .gov, it's a U.S. government website, by definition. In this case, some deeper page inside vaccines.gov.