SecurityWriter

@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

Security Architect. Technical Auditor. Speaker. Author: Humanising Security I specialise in organisational and operational security. I help people do better. “The rising tide raises all ships” ~ Ancient proverb Donor: Infosec.exchange :donor: #Infosec #CISSP #TOGAF #SABSA #COBIT #CITP #MBCS #Iaas #Cybersecurity #SIGINT #OSINT #SecOps #OpSec #Blueteam #Philosophy #ADHD #Privacy #DRM #MediaPreservation #History #Geopolitics GNU Terry Pratchett

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SecurityWriter, to random

Pretty sure that Ivanti software is 95% zero days in the codebase now.

The other 5% is known exploits in the ADO backlog.

SecurityWriter, to random

Genus: Felis Floofus

SecurityWriter, to random

I like to think I’m a gnarled, grizzled, greybeard in infosec. I’ve seen everything, and nothing surprises me.

But every now and then, very infrequently, an incident genuinely makes my jaw drop.

How was your day?

SecurityWriter,

@sambowne this one has more to do with the bounds of human stupidity than anything!

hayo, to random

Chinesium Lego is improving. This German steam locomotive is actually sturdy, and only 2 missing pieces.

SecurityWriter,

@hayo I’ve found a lot of decent products that way in recent years. My strategy is to find what sells best, has the best reviews etc. over there, and buy that version of whatever you’re looking for.

China has dual economies, but some items are the same domestically and exported. Those are what you’re after.

Most items are manufactured there, so it makes sense they have areas with good quality control without duplicating workstreams to make one version of the product cheaper. Often it comes down to which screen print they apply to the item, and what box it goes in.

Also, cool loco!

Daojoan, to random
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Never told anyone this but if I’d been born just 100 years earlier, and been in England, and had a reason to go to New York, and had enough money for a ticket, and selected that particular ship, and not made it onto the lifeboat, I would have died on the Titanic.

Crazy close call.

Someone up there looking out for me.

Blessed.

SecurityWriter,

@Daojoan dodged a bullet there.

SecurityWriter, to random

Oh dear. Accidentally bought another baitcasting combo. This time Abu Garcia.

🙄

JennyList, to random
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I wish I'd known the word "Enshittification" when I wrote this for @hackaday back in 2020.

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/15/electric-vehicles-continue-the-same-wasteful-mistakes-that-limit-longevity/

SecurityWriter,

@JennyList @hackaday it’s a great word isn’t it? I started using it back in the early 90s, little did I know I’d still be using it now, but it so perfectly captures the direction of travel of just about everything… especially tech.

SecurityWriter, to random

Look at this derpy chungus

SecurityWriter, (edited )

Floof unit.

SecurityWriter,

Pounds of floof per square inch: Many

SecurityWriter, to random

All I’m saying is don’t image search ‘French Telephone Plug’ on DuckDuckGo during a presentation with safe search turned OFF.

SecurityWriter,

Or do, because it’s fucking hilarious.

Hint: it’s not this.

SecurityWriter,

@ddr 🙃

SecurityWriter,

@drsbaitso it’s definitely not this, so what could it be??

🤷

SecurityWriter,

@noodle glad we’re doing some root-cause anal-ysis on this.

Doing gods work.

SecurityWriter,

@richardstocks @noodle What’s really odd is that my friend from New Zealand gets exactly my problem.

SecurityWriter,

@Wortex17 We believe it’s location based… crowdsourced ‘research’ appears to be ongoing.

SecurityWriter,

@richardstocks @noodle oh. Oh no. It’s spreading 😂

So to speak…

SecurityWriter,

@shinjiikarus We believe it’s caused by location. Strangely.

DDG search results are alleged to be ‘bubbleless’ so it shouldn’t make any difference who you are, only where you’ve set it to search.

Seems that UK, US, and New Zealand get some rather different results.

SecurityWriter, to random

Not to be the “what are they teaching kids at school these days” guy. But I have two digital forensics/cyber security post grads on my team, and I had to give them the birds and the bees talk (networking and DNS).

I’m happy to of course, you don’t learn by not asking, but it was a revelation to them.

Both are more ‘qualified’ than me, but had no clue further than what an IP address does.

SecurityWriter,

@a I wouldn’t shame someone for not knowing a thing, and I’ll happily embrace an opportunity for them to learn, but I was blown away but what seems like a glaring omission. I’ve booked them on CompTIA Network+ courses, and we’ll go from there.

SecurityWriter,

@a perhaps, but SO much of the jobs those degrees lead to will involve heavy amounts of network analysis.

I’d feel totally out of my depth starting a job not knowing that stuff.

Moreover, imagine not knowing that you needed to know that stuff.

SecurityWriter,

@ktneely @a I couldn’t describe how traceroute works on a good day, let alone in an interview.

But 20 years in infosec for government, military, and the worlds largest enterprises, and nobody has picked up on it yet 😂

Attitude and ability to learn above all else, when I’m hiring. I’ve had school leavers learn more in 6 months than NetEngs with 40 years under their belts ever did.

SecurityWriter,

@QRSS_Test I led them to this question organically and asked what their solution was. They actually got pretty close on the first go between them!

They’d seen a mask before, but putting the bits of information to get themselves gave them an “oooooooh!” moment.

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