Notices by Mike Sheward (secureowl@infosec.exchange)

it’s like mom always said, “work hard, keep your head down, save as much as you can, and one day a bunch of idiots who don’t even know what countries are can set it all on fire.”

The speedo in the rental VW I got looks like an attitude indicator banking hard right with a slight climb

broadcom don't seem to like vmware customers very much which begs the question, if you don't like vmware customers, why would you buy vmware?

I recently immersed myself in the slipper lifestyle. Never thought it’d be for me to be honest. I’m not much of a fan of flip flops, and slippers are essentially softer flip flops imo. At least that’s what I thought.

Anywho, I got myself a pair of slippers just to dabble. And yeah, going to get the mail, taking the dogs out. Game changer. Never going back. Regret that it took me so long to embrace.

Remember, do one thing everyday that scares you.

As someone who has never been to Waffle House, but will soon be in proximity to one, should I go to Waffle House?

“Did you remember the milk?”

“No, but I did remember every external IP address of an array of servers used by a company I worked at 22 years ago, and a Sophos activation key from around the same era, any chance we could do anything with that?”

Ok, first and foremost - an Amber alert, I hope it all works out and the kids are all safe. And I get the need to disseminate information as quickly as possible.

Secondly, I have many feelings about a government alert being broadcast to phones containing a bitly link to an X [dot] com post. The X post, is not accessible if you are not logged in to X/Twitter.

We desperately need to decouple our government departments and agencies from commercial entities when it comes to Crisis communications. This, in my opinion, is pretty unacceptable.

vendor told me they were going to send API credentials in a “secure document”

It was just a regular word document, but the credentials were in white text so you couldn’t see them without either highlighting or changing the font color

have advised them to add dark mode to their threat model

Hello here are the five things I did this week:

1) asked the FAA to divert aircraft back towards Florida following SpaceX explosion

2) performed environmental impact study following SpaceX explosion

3) sent formal apology on behalf of US government to Turks and Caicos regarding SpaceX explosion

4)worked with FAA to compensate passengers who were grounded in Florida due to SpaceX explosion

5) ran out of time to do the fifth thing because my flight was delayed due to SpaceX explosion

I see all those big tech companies who gave a million dollars to the inaugural fund of an adjudicated sexual abuser and person who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women have done cool logos in support of international Women’s day

I don’t believe for one second that a reporter from TASS was “accidentally” allowed into that room btw. I don’t think accidentally wandering into the White House is a thing.

Leaked from next Bond film script:

“Bond is at the Casino sir, he’s got the target in sight.”

“Tell him to abort. We need him back in the office five days a week. To, you know, collaborate.”

Well I figured I’d check out #msfs2024 again to see if they’d fixed the bugs and my copilot appears to have spawned outside on the roof, so I guess that answers that

Almost time for the annual “spot the companies who laid thousands of employees off citing tough market conditions while paying $17 million for a 30 second Super Bowl commercial” game.

The USPS has suspended inbound deliveries of packages from China amid fears Deepseek AI has loaded itself onto a series of floppy disks and is planning to reassemble itself inside the US.

If you've ever wondered what it is like to throw up and have diarrhea simultaneously, JIRA now has an AI button.

Never in global history have so many found out after the fucking around of so few.

Theres some pro bowl stuff on TV. I hear my kid ask my wife, “what exactly is the pro bowl?”

She explains that it’s a chance for players who didn’t get into the Super Bowl but were still extremely good to celebrate and have fun.

I walk in with a, “pfft why are you watching the loser bowl.”

Marketing: “we need you to put this tracking code and analytics javascript on the site.”

Dev: “k.”

Product: “we need you to put this session recording library on the site.”

Dev: “k.”

Legal: “we need you to put this cookie consent tracker on the site.”

Dev: “k.”

Sales: “hey we need you to put this chat widget on the site, every page.”

Dev. “k.”

Leadership: “hey make sure that chat bot is AI.”

Dev. “k.”

Security: “hey can you put this EDR on your laptop?”

Dev: “oh my god that’s gonna fuck up my performance why don’t you people ever think of user experience?!?!”

if ByteDance divests they should do so into 8 smaller companies called BitDance