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neurovagrant

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

Security ops engineer, former congressional sysadmin, writer, voracious reader. he/him. Opinions here mine only. No LLM content from me, all flaws detected are human-generated. Autistic/depressed/anxious/hungry.

#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

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neurovagrant, to random
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Oh that's not good.

"Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) is a U.S.-based company specializing in digital audio-visual recording solutions for courtroom environments. According to the vendor’s website, JAVS technologies are used in courtrooms, chambers and jury rooms, jail and prison facilities, and council, hearing, and lecture rooms. Their company website cites over 10,000 installations of their technologies worldwide."

https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112490670461707090

jmsdnns, to DuckDuckGo
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I know #DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, but I love what they're trying to do so much.

Let's go easy on them for whatever mistakes they make today as they work under extreme stress to get everything working again.

Airplane Sweat GIF

neurovagrant,
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@jmsdnns seems like they're quacking under the pressure

neurovagrant, to random
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Way to be, whoever you are.

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/112490579438165429

zackwhittaker, to random
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NEW, by me: The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a consumer-grade spyware app called pcTattletale.

pcTattletale was seen stealthily and continually capturing screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest information and reservation details.

This was discovered because a security researcher found a flaw in the spyware is exposing these screenshots to the internet, not just the spyware's intended users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers/

neurovagrant,
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@zackwhittaker Suddenly the seemingly ubiquitous very-well-informed scam calls following hotel bookings make even more sense.

neurovagrant, to random
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lots of Sun/ack traffic on this network all of a sudden...

neurovagrant,
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hmph, figures that joke wouldn't get a response

neurovagrant, to random
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The UK holding a general election on our independence day feels like an odd choice

neurovagrant,
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makes more coffee, starts spinning up UK election domain monitors to spot the inevitable info ops

neurovagrant, to random
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Did no one warn the mailroom that Peter Thiel was visiting? That's just in his speaking contract.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/112485049471513212

neurovagrant, to random
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I feel like I’m being punked.

Recall acts like a gold standard infostealer and now the clipboard is getting compromised like a cryptocurrency wallet replacer infection.

https://mastodon.social/@Viss/112482080262150869

neurovagrant,
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If I’m being punked and @Viss is actually Ashton Kutcher I am going to be very upset.

Viss, to random
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you dont get copy and paste anymore either.

neurovagrant,
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@Viss isn’t this what cryptocurrency wallet replacer malware does

neurovagrant, to random
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Coming to theaters in 2025,

MINORITY RECALL.

Tom Cruise is a star Microsoft developer responsible for a system that remembers everything you do on your computer, to the second.

That same system proves he committed a murder.

He must race against the system clock to prove his innocence in this dystopian tale of consumer technology...

neurovagrant, to random
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Any user-friendly antivirus for linux?

(no, clamav doesn't count)

If not, why are you recommending regular folks use linux? I'm concerned by this trend.

neurovagrant,
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I'd love to be wrong about this.

neurovagrant,
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@maddad It's learnable.

It's not viable for consumer use, from everything I've seen.

Without endpoint protection I'm really concerned about folks casually recommending people just "use ubuntu"

(not saying you're saying this)

neurovagrant,
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@maddad Yeah, same. Breaking things taught me a lot more than anything else.

neurovagrant, to random
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i can already feel my tinfoil thickening,

hear the crackling of its new edges,

see in my mind's eye the quicksilver of its shiny side out.

neurovagrant, to random
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Okay, does anyone out there do good and useful identity theft monitoring or related services?

neurovagrant, to random
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maybe Google's recent "unprecedented misconfiguration" was someone automatically running LLM-generated commands

did ya think about THAT iTERM?!?!

neurovagrant,
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i try not to be a gatekeeper but all this AI bullshit be testing me, lord

neurovagrant, to random
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So, interesting happening:

It looks like someone submitted 4 different credit applications at 3 different banks with my deets since Sunday.

The only credit-kinda thing I've done lately was pick up a new phone through T-Mobile on Saturday.

So either that's a total coincidence or some API is fucking giving up the game somewhere.

neurovagrant,
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Oh, VERY WORTH NOTING - I noticed these fraudulent credit inquiries because I'm signed up for Experian's free product, and I saw a handful of inquiries start pinging my file.

MONITOR YO CREDIT. This was a hell of a lot easier since I caught it within 2 days of starting.

Also, FREEZE YO CREDIT with all 3 agencies. It's free - they'll use some dark patterns to try to get you to pay for products, but it's free for all 3.

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Pirated for alt text

neurovagrant,
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@x00001 but you're weird and you're inquisitive and you give a shit about people.

Scully's still very proud of you.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

neurovagrant,
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@GossiTheDog I can't wait for the wave of aging-techie email/message footers of "I do not consent to Microsoft Recall storing or data-mining my communications in any way and revoke any rights they claim with this message.

Copy & paste this to your own status to do the same!"

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