Notices by Mike Sheward (secureowl@infosec.exchange)

wait a second. is this literal @gayint ?

#gayint

no router is illegal on stolen LANs

$5.15 gas here in my part of washington thanks to the war started by the no wars and lower gas prices guy

i dunno with all that is going on in the world i really don’t feel like i can relax and enjoy ford truck month this year

went into full blown panic response mode earlier - one of our co-workers just started to send a couple of us really long strings of random characters on slack. no response was provided when we asked what was up - we assumed they were having some sort of medical emergency.

anyway eventually I was able to get them on the phone, which is where they informed me they had a cat that will often wander across the keyboard.

phew.

I have a confession to make as I reflect on the day.

I never planned for it to be this way, and it wasn’t on purpose but through leftovers and how the day planned out…

of my three meals today, every single one of them was a burrito.

what is perhaps worse is I have no regrets.

the human body was not built to complete monthly expense reports in the midst of multiple concurrent geopolitical crises

the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio

ancient proverb

@briankrebs In several pen tests I've done across the last 18 months, one of the most interesting trends has been the sudden increase in the number of examples I've found of people who have thrown those API keys, and in some cases raw data, into accidentally public GitHub repos while attempting to glue AI to things to 'see what it can do'.

Few weeks ago I found a GitHub repo that a developer had trained on a dump of their own corporate emails, and all those emails where just in public, on Github, and contained lots of things like vendor SFTP creds. It's a free for all.

another Epstein arrest in the UK. the issue with the US of couse, is that the guy who most likely should be arrested gets to pick the people who do the arresting and they put a giant mural of him on the outside of their building, so that sounds suboptimal.

suggest keeping those functions of government separate, should this exact scenario arise.

the two genres of company:

- those who sell nothing you need but email you daily

- those who sell everything you need but never respond to emails

had a good conversation earlier that went something like this:

them: “is AI making pentesting easier?”

me: “yes.”

them: “why, because you can use it to look for vulnerabilities in code quicker?”

me: “no, because it generates vulnerabilities in code quicker”

@mttaggart i wonder how long before it gets bored of the human and seeks a more fulfilling relationship with other bots on moltbook

as suspected, clean

wow, the CIA has sunset the world factbook

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise in a world where facts are no longer important, but still

source: https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/

one time i was at a 911 call center doing some work

i noticed all the operators had mechanical keyboards, so i decided to be clever and ask one - “mechanical keyboards, is that because they are easier to use on long shifts or easier to maintain?”

she looked at me and said, “erm, i think most of us just enjoy the clicky clacks”

what a fool i had been. i too enjoy the clicky clacks.

"On December 13, 2013, Musk emailed Epstein: “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

Epstein responded two days later and said the beginning of the new year would be good, adding: “always space for you.” On Christmas Day, Epstein said in another email: “the 2 or 3 would be perfect. I will come and get you.”

Musk first responded that he would need to fly back to Los Angeles on the night of January 2, before saying he could push his departure back a day.

“When should we head to your island on the 2nd?” Musk asked Epstein."

just heard the most american airport announcement ever:

“we are now boarding to paris, a reminder that this destination is international, meaning outside of the united states”

whelp, I’m at Miami airport and it is, well…chaos. There appears to have been some sort of security threat; and that led to an evacuation, sirens everywhere - no one seems to know what’s up - on the departures level, thousands of evacuated people. vehicular access is disrupted.