Breaker of software | VP R&D @hunterstrategy | CTI/DFIR | @ians_security faculty | Bookings: jake at malwarejake dot com | GSE #150 | He/him
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Let's not mince words:
* If you don't support trans people, you're a bad human
* If you have to add caveats to your support (e.g. "as long as my kids don't see"), you're one of the worst kinds of human
* Trans deserve your *unconditional* support for their humanity
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Dear web developers,
The answer is zero. Zero. Get it through your thick skulls. Zero is the number of times anyone has EVER wanted something to autoplay on your site and start making noise. I'd honestly rather you mine crypto-currency in my browser than use my speakers.
#kthxbye
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Okay, I'm just going to throw this out there, but maybe - just maybe - a vendor having the ability to change every one of their kernel drivers in the field at the same time without any approval from IT/end users is a model we need to reconsider... @CrowdStrike.
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If corporate infosec is texting a personal number, they've stepped squarely into the line of fire...
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Can we make it a rule that this guy only gets to use single core computers from here on?
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I'm showing this to the next person that asks me what security compliance looks like...
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Quick national security note: everyone on the planet now knows the US is running without a leader at the helm.
Every hour the 25th Amendment isn't invoked, we're rolling the dice that a foreign threat takes advantage of the situation. This is not a game, there is no do over.
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There's always that one person in every IT shop that insists on over-automating everything... (via @misslaneym)
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Totally normal, definitely not a bubble, investment cycle.
fortune.com/2023/06/14/mistr…
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What I expect to find when an org says "please evaluate our containerized microservices deployed across a hybrid infrastructure in a mulit-cloud environment..."
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I actually feel bad for Zuckerberg. He and Facebook aren't exactly innocent here, but let's be clear:
1. Nobody forced ANYONE to use Facebook.
2. You didn't pay for it.
3. You were ALWAYS the product.
4. The goal was ALWAYS to sell you more ads and monetize your data. Period.
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Security teams, I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that executives are suddenly very interested in security controls.
The bad news is, they're not interested for reasons you probably hoped when you dreamed this day might come...
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Nobody* saw this coming.
*Literally everyone who studies AI and automation saw this coming.
NEW: Amazon's new AI-powered cameras are penalizing delivery drivers for driving mistakes they didn't make & drivers are losing income.
It's the nightmare scenario that AI experts frequently warn about. I talked to drivers about how AI is punishing them:
vice.com/en/article/88npjv/a…
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This boils my blood. If my social media were reviewed, there's little chance I'd be issued a US visa.
Also, I'm already thinking of ways to abuse this. There's little chance foreign intelligence haven't figured out the same...
U.S. now requires nearly all visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers
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The person who made the decision to push this to prod should never be allowed to work in tech again.
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Network engineer: there's only one port open on the firewall, attackers will never get in!
Red team: so about that one port...
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Illustrating security concepts: sure you have integrity and availability, but without confidentiality, does it really matter?
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On the left, a certification ranger with 25 letters after his name trying to pentest the network.
On the right, a kid with no formal education, but who spent time figuring out to make it work *before* he tried to break it just dominating your defenses...
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Someone awesome put together a parody site offering "Hate Offsets" so you can "rainbow wash your sins away."
Please RT this until it goes so viral that Cloudflare PR has to seriously answer questions about whether they actually offer "Hate Offsets."
cloudflarehatecredits.org/
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If @GitHub (Microsoft) truly believes copilot isn't infringing on anyone's work, I want to offer them a chance to prove it: I'll donate $50k to a charity of their choice (or @EFF if we can't agree) if they release a Copilot version trained solely on Windows kernel source. 1/
Hi. I know you’re excited about copilot.
GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you for copilot after you help train it further.
It’s truly disappointing to watch people cheer at having their work and time exploited by a company worth billions.
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Hey @lyft - is it okay for your drivers to have removed the door handles inside the vehicle so you can only be let out from the outside?
Asking for a me - because this is NOT okay.
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Vegas is a cesspool. Keep your head on a swivel. Look out for each other. Never leave a drink out of your sight. Some men think this is only a problem for women. It is not.
Years ago (not at BH/DC) I was rufied at an industry security conference in Vegas. 1/
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"Ghost job" listings are far more common than you might have guessed. This is just sickening behavior. We need regulations on this just like we have for false advertising.
sfgate.com/tech/article/ghos…
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Imagine not being able to say “the woman who called for the execution of Pelosi and believes that Jewish space lasers started wildfires should not be a lawmaker” because you’re afraid of your base. It’s just crazy.
ABC: Marjorie Taylor Greene has voiced support for executing Nancy Pelosi. Is she fit to serve?
GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON: I'm not gonna answer that question as to whether she's fit to serve, because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept.
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After a failure to enumerate possible attack vectors, the adversary has executed an attack abusing a feature of the system...
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Yo, Microsoft, we need to talk. This is Notepad. Literally nobody asked for this...
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Renaming your food so the expense department confuses it for office supplies is peak hacking...
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Too many negative findings from your PCI assessment? Instantly remediate your deficiencies with this one crazy trick auditors don't want you to know about!
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The official Linux kernel mailing list being offline for days because it's hosted on a home Linux server that suffered a power outage is the most Linux thing ever... nitter.app/spaans/status/95099743…
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This is Oracle actively covering up evidence of an intrusion. This is someone executing 1990's breach playbooks in 2025.
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I am painfully aware it was "not quite an update"
- with a .sys extension
- in the \windows\system32\drivers directory
- that prevented a kernel driver from functioning correctly
See also: distinction without a difference...
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Embedding the admin username and password in the HTML comments of your web application...
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Pro tip: open a command prompt and run "ipconfig /all" then look for any IPv6 addresses that may be present.
Any addresses starting with "fe80:" means that your machine is compromised and your communications are being monitored by intelligence agencies.
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Using all your awesome tools and zero day exploits to pwn a domain controller, only to find out that you're in a staging lab and have nowhere to go...
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Can we PLEASE stop with the "there's 750,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the US?"
I don't care what the "official" numbers are because it's certainly not reflective of the job market.
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This is fantastic. Anyone using a coding "interview assignment" in production deserves this and so much more...
H/T:@TProphet who I unfortunately can't RT
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"Software glitch"
A software glitch at Deutsche Bank has for almost a decade prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged to law enforcement authorities, Germany’s biggest bank has discovered.
ft.com/content/d537f416-7c71…
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I cannot believe I risked my personal safety repeatedly for a country on the verge of voting itself into fascism. I don't regret my service - I just can't believe this is where we are. Legit speechless.
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Fuck everything about this.
@HiltonHotels - get your people in line. Treating hackers with this level of disrespect is a bold move (TM). Looking forward to your official public written apology.
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Always have healthy skepticism when reviewing logs. Things aren't always as they seem...
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DOGE is a bigger threat to US federal government information systems than China. If you find this statement controversial, I'm going to question your IT and cybersecurity credentials.
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Imagine dismissing anyone with legitimate security and privacy concerns as being "screeching voices of the minority."
When engaging these people, let's not pretend they're interested in dialogue. They know better than you and nothing will change that. Do NOT plan for discourse.
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Whatever this guy is training for, I'm betting the job description reads like a lot of infosec:
Entry level position, requires 10 years experience with 5G technology, CISSP, strong baking skills, 10x engineer qualification, CEH strongly preferred.
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When there's not enough space on the server, so you zip up someone else's files to make space for your data...
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With @Snowden book coming out, I'm hearing multiple respected people in the industry say "the domestic programs were wrong, I just don't agree with how he released the data." I get where these people are coming from, but let's examine why this is a hollow argument. 1/
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If this is the way the Parler hack actually went down, it’s a fantastic case study in cascading security failures.
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Hey infosec: remember that your job is risk reduction, not risk elimination. There's a BIG difference.
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When you have a master's degree in computer science and find out that the entry level jobs in infosec you qualify for are things like "monitor DLP for alarms"
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I've had more than a few people note that I'm posting some "political content" and they want to only see cybersecurity.
Neat, but:
1. I'm a whole person, not a robot
2. I will always speak truth to power, party be damned
3. I will use my platform for social good
4. Unfollow me?
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When a user clicks on an malicious PDF, it crashes Acrobat Reader, and then the user forwards it to all their coworkers "to see if it opens correctly on their machine"
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Beginning the response and learning the incident has not been properly scoped...
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