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- Comment on Japan is having a hard time convincing employees to take 4-day workweeks 2 months ago:
How crazy an unexpected man /s
Since the 20s they’ve been riding the fuck out of people to the point that they have suicide nets up and now because they realized their work force projections are ass, they’re gonna try and fix things now over a hundred years and numerous generations later?
Good luck
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 3 months ago:
All these comments about adblockers - you’re truly naive if you think those are going to last in any capacity.
Chrome/Edge are already going to be neutering the majority of the functionality with manifest v3.
Firefox is already starting to see some commercialization/enshitification with this new exec. Adblocker days are numbered. Soon they’ll be streaming the ads in-line with the videos everywhere and you’ll need to have a special hacked up rig just to content filter and be forced to sit in silence for X minutes.
Just because the problem is at your neighbors house, doesn’t mean it won’t come to yours.
- Comment on From 'quiet quitting' to 'coffee badging' — why employees are less interested in work 4 months ago:
Less interested in work - lmfao.
No.
Less interested in toxic environments Less interested in less and less pay Less interested in non-growth Less interested in the bullshit.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Tennant: TERFs are whiny fucking babies JK Rowling, Court Jester: whines like baby
- Comment on "We're committed to release firmware updates to our devices at least until 2026" - says a company that launched a device with a 3 years old version of android. 4 months ago:
Because it exposes root and system internals. Biggest reason android devices get compromised/hacked and your fun, quirky android becomes a link in a bot net peddling god knows what including attacks against people and other illegal activities and media
- Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs? 5 months ago:
Keep this in mind, some places raises will barely cover inflation.
Now factor in gas and, most importantly, time spent commuting.
All that on top of effectiveness in working with social interruptions, trips to the coffee machine, bathroom breaks, lunch, etc.
Any of these businesses that are pushing for on-site are locked into costs from renting space - guarantee it. I get wanting to do the occasional face showing or in person meetings, but they should be concise and few in number - if they’re an efficient shop. Plenty of new blood that get the value of hybrid/remote work.
- Comment on PlayStation Rolling Out Update To Allow Players To Join Discord Chat Directly From PS5 5 months ago:
Can’t wait to listen to fans nonstop
- Comment on Google Search Result Link Hover (Edge/Chrome) 5 months ago:
So when you hover over an item usually, it shows on the bottom left/right what the link is
But in this case (edge and chrome) I see the link actively changing and like resolving or something of the sorts. Very odd. I don’t normally use these two put it was the only way I could see the sponsored links (thanks Firefox!)
Normally I’d expect just a static “this link here, goes here” rather than it changing in real time like this. Wondering if it’s normal chrome/chromium behavior or if this is an exploitation of google search functionality stemming from the google search source code leaks from earlier last week or the week prior.
Very interesting stuff.
- Submitted 5 months ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 2 comments
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 5 months ago:
We can tell.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 5 months ago:
Do you have an easier time catching flies with vinegar or with honey?
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 5 months ago:
Probably could’ve worded this better.
Maybe a “What have you all setup to remove these features, how are you running windows, etc “
Best to lead with pure curiosity and questions than to lead with assumptions. We don’t know what we don’t know, and that also means that the depth of what we don’t know could be surprisingly deep.
Stay curious!
- Comment on Took me disappointingly long 5 months ago:
The ironic stench that comes from this dudes display is fucking hilarious
It’s so multifaceted
- Comment on Discord: Have you lost access to your email? no worries, just regain access to it! 5 months ago:
Discord: our platforms is being abused to peddle malware via c2 channels, file repositories, etc. So to combat this problem, we’re going to ruin the customer experience!
- Comment on How does SecureErase work? 5 months ago:
Computers use an address to tell it where the data is stored on your memory drive
Erase just deleted the address referencing the location, meaning other things can overwrite it.
Secure erase actually deletes the address and overwrites the data that was at where the address was pointing to. Sometimes it’s all zeros, some programs will right random crap over it
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Knew it before you even said it
Lemmy.ml bans anyone and anything that has to do with even slightly anti-Russia or anti China.
Posted a comment the other day that China was still supporting Russia who were killing innocent people and got banned, then one of the admins responded, and then my comment was removed.
Seems like a super good area to have open and honest discussions and debates.
- Comment on You Can Now Jailbreak A PS4 With An LG TV 5 months ago:
I fucking love headlines like this 😂
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 6 months ago:
Forgot to mention the NIST Framework, oy vey. This one is pretty good and is an excellent resource, albeit rather scary lookin’ on the cover. Very good resource, and will definitely net you some cred in your org.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 6 months ago:
You’re in luck! Cybersec people, for the most part, love sharing what they know/have done with each other. Many believe in freedom of information and find value in open collaboration. We just wanna show you the whacky thing we did with what we had.
The biggest resource I’ll share with you is membership with ISAAC. Find whatever category you fit into here and push to get your org membership, if you don’t already. This puts you into a huge working group with your industries’ peers and they will have all sorts of resources for you to use including discussions, meetings with pros, etc.
There’s also SANS who has some free stuff (check their Reading Room) but also has classes (paid, expensive, but veeery worth it imo, again if you can get buy-in)
Outside of the paid membership options, there’s still a lot of good options:
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MISP is a great threat intel sharing platform, but will require some setup as a product (free && opensource). Take this one slow, you don’t want data leakage. Start small and locked down, gradually open up as you gain buy-in/trust/confidence.
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Cybrary IT is a free+paid learning platform, good stuff here - lots of diversity including business stuff
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OWASP - more so for web-app security, still good knowledge to add to that toolbox
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OpenSecurityTraining - heard some good things about this site, I think you may enjoy it - I have not used it myself, but please let me know if you have any problems/reasons you don’t like it.
Then there’s always the classic CTF/Hack Challenges websites out there which let you get real experience with red-teaming/bolstering your knowledge of attacker TTPs (Techniques, Tactics, Procedures):
- HackTheBox - challenges for practicing your skills. No hand-holding, just a sandbox for you to play in. They have academy offerings (paid, and a new service, recommend skipping unless you can get buy in from the company/have a team who would benefit from a bulk-license purchase), regular free boxes to challenge yourself with, etc
-TryHackMe - this one is also CTFs but its more so lesson based/training stuff
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Heard good things about (KC7)[kc7cyber.com] as well, seems to be more threat hunting/blue team focused (blue team = defend, red team = attack)
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(Lets Defend)[www.letsdefend.io] - Free + paid options, more blue team stuff, great for SOCs which may or may not hit your mark.
Hope this helps you out, biggest thing is getting integrated with the community, reading the news (religiously), and managing burn out. Security is an uphill battle, but we roll this boulder for others who cannot. Respect your body and take care of your mental, or you will burn out and scar yourself. LMK if you need anything!
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- Comment on Off-Topic Friday (experimental) 6 months ago:
I think so too tbh, kinda seems like the course for any new technology tbh. Implementations come and go as we refine the tech itself - not sure if you’ve read it before but “How We Got To Now” was a pretty good read. Talks about tech in general all the way from the inventions of glass to modern tech and discusses the social reception along the way. Think they made a tv show about it too IIRC
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday (experimental) 6 months ago:
Interesting take - you mention AI pretty broadly here, is there a specific sector/use-case you have in mind specifically? Or do you truly mean the technology itself?
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday (experimental) 6 months ago:
Been playing around with Image generation for a little while now - so much fun. I’d never want to monetize off my work, mainly because I know that a lot of the image training is stolen (specific verbiage ‘stolen’ is my opinion, not legal damnation)
With that being said, does anyone know of any specific projects/models which are solely trained on consensual training/sharing? I know if my own artistic abilities were better, I’d want to share with the community and would have interest in training my own models to generate new, creative stuff with my unique stroke added.
- Comment on Request: Guidance from Staff+ Security Engineers 6 months ago:
<3 Threat Modeling <3
- Comment on Request: Guidance from Staff+ Security Engineers 6 months ago:
I’m an InfoSec guy (cybersec, intel, risk)
The biggest thing I attribute to my various success are mostly personal growth. You can learn everything in the world about technicality, but it means squat if you can’t get buy in, don’t have trust, etc. As much as we hate to see it, silos are still very real and InfoSec can be hard to communicate sometimes. I look at it like this: most departments can hang up their jackets at the end of the day and say “im done working” and not have to worry about it from there. With security, it’s constant and affects pretty much every aspect of your life. Information/strats/etc are changing constantly, by the hour and that means we have to take a different approach to things.
However, for the purposes of this discussion, I’d have to say OSINT frameworks and being one with the intel community are huge. You can learn a lot from peoples failures, success, and what threat actors/hacktivists/etc are doing. MISP is pretty cool, but it can be a bit unwieldy to the uninitiated. My recommendation would be to lock it down as much as you can off the bat, run it in a vm, and learn the inter-workings from youtube and their documentation/other sec. companies documentation until you feel more comfortable. I’d also recommend going to some conferences, competing in some ctfs, etc to not only network, but to also work on skills and learn from others and their techniques/paths/routes.
Automation and scripting are also huge, of course. Learn Python (I can’t stress how much I fucking love python and it’s syntax - genuinely enjoyable to use for 99% of your ‘I need a thing that does this for me quick’), JavaScript (I know, I know, but the bad guys loooooove obfuscating JS - like it or not, these be yo’ vegetables. The faster you eat your vegetables, the faster you get to desert.), etc.
There’s always certs too - I have mixed feelings about them, but I would recommend only going for certs you know are in high demand in your area. So many people shell out hundreds of bucks for what are essentially paperweights. I think Thor (youtube shorts guy aka piratesoftware) mentioned something about only going for keys that you know will unlock doors you want to open.
Don’t feel like you have to everything at once either. Cybersec is fucking massive, and there are maaaaany facets for you to get snuggy inside. Pick whats interesting, and run it into the ground. Don’t stop until you get bored. When you’re bored, pivot into other areas that may now be more interesting to you.
Which brings me to Cryptography. This is huge today, and it will become more important as we progress towards commercialization of quantum computers. This area is a bit book heavy, because its an intricate process, but push through it. Embrace the Chaos Theory! If math isn’t your thing, thats okay too. Like I said, there’s a lot of other areas you can become an expert/advanced in.
As I also mentioned, networking and being social with the Cybersec/IT community is huge. Back in the day, hackin was about fuckin around with what you had and doing whacky stuff to show your buddies. Share with each other, be kind to each other, never stop learning and let those creative juices fly. Find what inspires you and love the fuck out of it.
Hope this helps anyone who’s interested. Might not be the best advice, but it’s what has worked for me. Looking forward to any conversation!
- Comment on Too soon? 6 months ago:
idk if you can call image generation derived from colored static based on preexisting statistically common knowledge/examples “planning” per se xD
Humans have come up with plenty worse, this is just more of the same at worst imo haha
- Comment on Too soon? 6 months ago:
Factual haha. Tbf I’d be a bit disturbed if the AI was good at drawing dead bodies tho
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 6 months ago:
Reviewing docs/playbooks mostly. Trying to make sure I can pay whatever I can forward.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 months ago:
The double tails things is sometimes normal, but that missing end quote fs tho. Still, pretty good all things considered. Wonder what model was used
- Comment on Too soon? 6 months ago:
This is AI, right? Some much cursed shit when you zoom in lol
- Comment on Checkmate 6 months ago:
(It was a joke)