These 976 accounts are part of an astroturf botnet consisting of (at least) 1212 accounts. The network is split into followers, which follow the aforementioned verified accounts as well as other members of the botnet, and followees, which are followed by the other bots.

This botnet uses multiple varieties of GAN-generated profile pics. (GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technique used by thispersondoesnotexist.com.) • 160 fake human faces (all female) • 169 fake cats • 183 anime pics

I'm excited to see that my PhD thesis is now available online: pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publ… Title: How Many Phish Can Tweet? Investigating the Effectiveness of Twitter's Phishing and Malware Defence System. Let me know if you have any questions / particular interests Abstract in 🧵

Get off Twitter and patch your iPhones

I have created an XMPP account to make it easier for people to anonymously send me key dumps. So if you want to off-load your key database when you shut down your operation, feel free to contact me at [email protected] - no questions asked.

this pandemic is the worst group project i’ve ever been a part of in my life.

Can we normalize NOT confusing someone’s FREE time with their availability….

Removing query params before sharing a link is a basic sign of respect

Samstag ist #APITag! Deshalb stellen wir Ihnen heute die Schnittstellen, die wir in dieser Woche gemeinsam mit Akteur*innen der #Zivilgesellschaft dokumentiert haben, vor.

Hello @LIRs, I would appreciate to give RIPE Feedback via this Form what can be done better / what is the Problem with the current UI.

A botnet of thousands of compromised #GitLab instances (exploited via CVE-2021-22205) is generating DDoS attacks in excess of 1 Tbps. Please patch your servers!

Heads up: Log4Shell update: second log4j vulnerability published CVE-2021-45046: the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations... lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4…

Das deutsch Super-Cookie TrustPid ist jetzt da. Damit setzen die Mobilfunkanbieter ein Cookie das über die Grenzen von Websites hinaus gültig ist. Siehe auch heise.de/news/EU-erteil…

⚠️ Please do not delete inetpub ⚠️ This is the fastest solution they could come up with to a privilege escalation vulnerability in the update stack that results in SYSTEM privileges If you delete it, at least deny write on the root of the drive msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/v…

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Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's about having space to be yourself. Without an audience of algorithms.