Many thanks to James O'Brien for inviting me to his show to discuss the concept of genocide and why we need broader definitions. Not narrow excuses.

This ACM CHI Conference paper finds non-intentional social media usage / algorithmically recommended content particularly regrettable. The paper's methodology is very neat: the authors triangulate surveys with screenshot analysis (with VLMs). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

I post this website every once and a while because it's a good reminder that if you can't find a way to delete your account somewhere, this website will usually tell you how. justdeleteme.xyz

I wanna be on that subway in London and read my poem aloud.

Microsoft and CrowdStrike are teaming up to create alignment across our threat actor taxonomies, mapping where knowledge of these actors align to enable security professionals to connect insights faster and make decisions with greater confidence. msft.it/6011SlOZ9

Over the past 30 days, six gTLDs have ranked in the Top 10 for being associated with botnet C2s - all showing significant increases in detections 📈: .tech (+4,000%), .icu (+433%), .today (+429%), .fun (+400%), .digital (+314%), and .life (+258%). 🌐 Full stats over at:

New York in 2025; before the Islamic Revolution:

Microsoft found Turla, Russia's elite FSB cyberespionage group, hacking foreign embassies' staff in Moscow by directly meddling with ISP traffic to infect targets with spyware that silently stripped away encryption on their communications and credentials. wired.com/story/russia-f…

It's 2025. There is no excuse for any product to past tokens into SQL statements like this, much less a security product. Fortinet, a cybersecurity company, has become famous over the last several years for its security flaws. An occasional flaw is forgiveable, but this line of

Rolling Stone names Ms. Rachel as one of the most influential creators of 2025 🏅 No other creator has stood by their channel’s mission as strongly and fearlessly as children’s musical-content creator Rachel Anne Accurso has this year. Full list: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Time to un-embargo our ACM CCS 2025 paper. We discovered that GEO satellites have been broadcasting a whole host of different kinds of traffic in the clear, including SMS and unencrypted calls from cellphones, military data, critical infrastructure, and more. wired.com/story/satellit…

NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp. NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp, etc ether. Must delete exploits... Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company. Big additional win for WhatsApp 1

BlackBasta Ransomware Chat Logs

That's why I asked how to analyze iOS logs without intrusion traces the day before yesterday. iverify.io/blog/key-iocs-…

The HackingTeam is back! New name, new malware, new exploits securelist.com/forumtroll-apt…

a muslim man becoming mayor of ny on the day dick cheney dies. what a world.

‼️ Meet Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a Digital Forensics and Incident Response manager at Sygnia, he is one of three insiders accused of cybercrimes. He allegedly conducted cyberattacks using ALPHV BlackCat ransomware. Goldberg and two other insiders ran ransomware operations since

PAY ATTENTION: they're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America. Your rights and freedoms are in danger. Don't believe the spin, NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump. wsj.com/tech/israeli-s… via The Wall Street Journal

🚨Rhadamanthys Stealer infrastructure is completely down and the Exploit clearnet site is also offline. The Exploit TOR site is still active. Developing... Image: club1337 (X)