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📢 Save the Date! #HackersOnTheHill returns on January 9, 2025, just before ShmooCon. Bridge the gap between cybersecurity researchers and policymakers. Details and registration links to come at hackersonthehill.org #HackersOnTheHill #Cybersecurity

Interesting listen (NSA's Brian Snow on risk-based security): risky.biz/RB191/ "Basically it boils down to the fact that it's impossible to assign a likelihood to an unknown attack. So how on earth did risk-based security become the 'standard' way of doing things in the

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action 404media.co/someone-put-fa…

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Anyone got a BBC contact that can get this fixed? Not sure if this is your piece @daniel_thomasg: "The hackers, who call themselves "Have I Been Pwned", made off with more than 31 million email addresses, usernames and passwords." view.email.bbc.com/?vawpToken=PXK…

Anthony Jeselnik is a comedian who is as edgy and as offensive as comedy comes, but he also doing it in good faith and in the context of stand-up comedy. And he accepts and understands what he is doing. He is RIGHT ON here.

We called it: the new changes are that they will be using Twitter for AI training and you no longer have any choice about it (if you're in the U.S.).

"Installing Arch Linux every day until I find a girlfriend"

Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to The Wayback Machine.

COBOL and chill.

Have a friend looking for a hacking / infosec group in the Phoenix area. Anyone know of some? Also, do they still meet up? Virtual?

It comes with heavy heart that we announce the passing of The Amazing Kreskin, known as George Kresge, who was on born January 12, 1935. The Amazing Kreskin would have turned 90 years old. The Amazing Kreskin cared only to perform for all of you. 10 more days until his retirement

Landline phones would almost sound fantastical if you proposed them today. "It's a hardwired dedicated communications line with greater than 99.999% uptime that you can use to talk to people across the world, and it even works when your power's out."

Can’t believe he’s adapting a Simpsons episode

My Son has always wanted a Switch and since he’s been so good this year with school etc I thought I’d go all out. I hope the Avaya 64 port gigabit switch is the one he wanted, he tried to keep his excitement in but he’s probably trying to play it cool!

1985: The Orange Book was born! DoD 5200.28-STD, "DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria" was published. It is commonly referred to as the "Orange Book".

CVE-2025-0001 Computers were a mistake

1986: HBO began using VideoCipher 2000E encryption to "scramble" signals for HBO and Cinemax, preventing satellite dish owners from receiving its signal for free as they had been able to do prior to this. Within 3 months satellite dish sales which had been rising fell sharply.