Notices by Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)

@Sandrew nope, there were two things called the same name back then. We had plain old Skype for Biz. No server, no payments etc.

And there we have it.

Also, a reminder that one year ago, Microsoft thought it would be okay to build Microsoft Recall into Windows, enable it by default, and make a text based log of everything you’ve ever viewed or typed easily accessible to infostealers.

Your regular reminder that BYOD and hone access is killing your enterprise security, due to infostealers. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/06/malvertising-campaign-leads-to-info-stealers-hosted-on-github/

@Sandrew nope, Skype for Business. We couldn’t afford to pay for it.

With the NSA and CIA planning to cut so many staff, I await for Shadow Brokers 2.0 to analyse.

@regulartacos amazed I got that working over Palo-Alto firewalls tbh

@jackeric I didn’t actually realise he was doing a shit, my mum rang me afterwards in hysterics

Since people are sharing their favourite Skype stories..

Ten years ago I got the enterprise version of Skype working at Crabbers, and demo’d it in the boardroom by calling my dad.

He answered. On the toilet. And then couldn’t hang up as he didn’t know how. So we just stood talking to my dad doing a shit on the giant boardroom wall display.

National Presto Industries has filed an 8-K with the SEC for probably ransomware. Apparently they didn’t like including their company name in the text. https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/80172/000143774925006475/npk20250306_8k.htm

#threatintel

@waldi @vmstan 6.x have fixes

@vmstan @waldi it includes me 🤣 I pay for support and expected vuln versions to be listed on the support site.

Russian cryptocurrency cashout service Garantex has been shut down.

They were sanctioned by the EU two days after an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/e-u-sanctions-russian-crypto-exchange-garantex/

Waiting for Hulk Hogan to take over NASA

@barrowofdirt she was the President and CEO of WWE, on paper at least

Linda McMahon ran the WWE before she started at the Department of Education, which she has been instructed to burn it down.

President Trump is preparing to sign an order that would instruct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling her agency,

Ms. McMahon’s first action as education secretary was to email the department’s staff about its “final mission,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-education-department-executive-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.kckt.Iy_76Q4v7BLE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@Rairii @galaxis @jerry it hasn’t helped, the downloads on the site didn’t work yesterday

@Rairii @galaxis @jerry it’s not burned until orgs patch, and most haven’t.. I’m tracking internet facing ESXi and most just haven’t bothered.

@jerry yeah. There’s going to be a bunch of SMBs caught in the middle of Managed Hosting companies not patching as soon as somebody reverses the patches and releases an exploit on GitHub.