I totally forgot to post about this huge leak from Chinese government linked infosec company KnownSec (a name that makes me think of 2013 Anonymous more than anything else). www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...

For those interested in the #history angle KnownSec attracted talent from some late 90s Chinese #hacker groups like the Green Army, 0x557 and XFocus. You can read more on my recent interest in #hacktivism in #China back in the day here: realhackhistory.org/2025/09/22/h...

2600 followers! If you know, you know. Thanks everyone! Here is to more skeets about the #history of #hacking.

This seems like a lot for a skeet about a Chinese infosec company having a breach in 2023 that is just now producing data leaked online, wtf.

finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well

illustration, dreamcast magazine (1998) archive.org/details/drea...

A banger from Terminus / Len Rose from 1993 @bsky.realhackhistory.org you might like this one.

Power event at Archive. Machines coming back, give us a few.

Russian hackers staycation in Russia challenge (impossible) If this guy was involved with the DNC hack and the U.S. manages to actually get him stateside how will Trump react? therecord.media/russian-hack...

I can really tell you didn’t grow up on Internet forums if you’re shocked and indignant about “sometimes even human moderators make capricious and inscrutable decisions that you don’t like”

I totally forgot to post about this huge leak from Chinese government linked infosec company KnownSec (a name that makes me think of 2013 Anonymous more than anything else). www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...

Just noticed I broke 2,500 followers on here, thanks everyone for wanting to read my skeets on #hacker #history (or #hacking present) tangents.

Pro-Kurdish DDoS hacktivist crew HeziRash seem to be shutting up shop.

This video that Russian pro-Putin hacker group Killnet just posted on Telegram.

Share your cyber starter packs!

"Our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond" took me out

Why is this happening? Big tech co's AI revenue *is* growing rapidly. It's a game of chicken where none can afford to blink, because they don't want to get left behind. But is that revenue enough to support projections this rosy? Analysts say, not likely. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when...

People who don’t read past the headline of an article are complaining that headlines aren’t informative enough. If you are barely reading the headline then a lengthier summary of the topics covered in the article isn’t going to help, sweetie.

Corporations are in the political driving seat.

*FINAL MUSTER* CULT OF THE DEAD COW is saddened to report that longtime cDc Ninja Strike Force member, Delchi, has passed over the great rainbow teleconference bridge. He can now be found amongst the most blessed celestial engineers, venerating the great DemonSeed Elite, k-rad be his name. **

This shit about agentic AI executing a cyber attack with "thousands of requests, often multiple per second—an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match" coming out of Anthropic is such marketing bullshit.

Throwback Thursday. How CFP's used to look like (21 years ago, p62 cfp at ph-neutral). SOMETHING IS COOKING....STAY TUNED.

Reminds me of this, IIRC twitter basically said accounts that represent governments or public interest are semi-immune to ToS in the end. www.politico.com/blogs/media/...

Beautiful mural spotted in Oakland,California today #Photography #Oakland #Mural #Art 📷

I'm heartbroken to share that my friend of 30 yrs, Arthur Phillip Delchi, @delchi.bsky.social, DJ Delchi, has left us. A founding force behind DEF CON’s Hackers with Disabilities, a member of cDc Ninja Strike Force, a L0pht regular who DJed our wildest parties (two of those moments captured below)

Is being shocked that implied threats to people on social media can result in negative consequences an age thing? Is it Gen-X having trouble with this because they have a flair for the melodramatic online? Genuinely trying to wrap my head around this.

Loving the “DDoS” sticker on this photo of a laptop posted by Cambodian hacktivists on Telegram.

Language models are models of a corpus, not cognition

🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐 We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10 🧵👇

GenAI companies are always like “HACKERS from CHINA and RUSSIA are using our AI to do incredible HACKING because our AI is so advanced but don’t worry we stopped them and also we won’t be giving any more details at this time just know our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond”

Crowd shots aren't permitted (though still happen). He did like to have his photo taken, it seems. I've certainly been gracious when strangers want to be in a photo with me. May rethink this.

Feels unlikely, but there are 41 pages of photos here if anyone wants to come through them: hackerphotos.com/index.php?/c...

Thursday at DEF CON. "Wagging the Tail: Covert Passive Surveillance". Excerpt of abstract: "this talk will focus on mobile and foot surveillance techniques used by surveillance teams. It will also include tips on identifying if you are under surveillance and how to make their life difficult."

I did a search for Wikileaks and Assange: they shared around articles about it, but not a lot of interesting commentary

So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour. Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences

Looking for words like “hacked” in #Epstein docs you’ll see he was throwing tens of thousands of dollars at people to try to manicure his Wikipedia entry or change his top google results on page one. Imagine typing out an email explaining browser incognito mode to a pedophile as part of your job.

Epstein met someone at DEFCON 26, 2018.

Absolute shit.

ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails

Very sincerely, I think that from the Russia/WikiLeaks slow release of DNC and Hillary files onward our society has completely lost the ability to properly scale outrage from reporting on troves of documents

Though in retrospect some aspects were grossly overblown, the last time I think we got it even halfway right was with the Snowden stuff. Ironic because Greenwald became such an insular, petty hack in the years that followed. And his reporting still left a lot to be desired.

If you want to have a long a fruitful time on social media don’t post things that can be construed as a threat of violence or death against anyone. This isn’t a new thing, twitter back in the 2010s honestly didn’t care but other than that most platforms have this as a stringent rule.

"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics

This is right. Don't ever hand your phone to the cops, locked or otherwise. Digital IDs might seem convenient but they expose a huge flaw in your personal security. Cops and feds are not your friends. theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

What kind of drug concoctions was Epstein on because I’ve communicated with people who were high as fuck online over the decades and this is next level.

this is really separating out the people who have posted on forums before from the people who have not

Politically it's easier to pass the less onerous restrictions, the ones that just seem like common sense — "like flashing your ID at a liquor store!" The government builds a moral panic, then promises its easily solvable. That panic, once taken hold, now provides cover for bolder restrictions.

Uh-huh. Good luck with that. They can monitor who is USING a vpn, but not what people are using them FOR. Absent a wholesale rebuilding of internet access/infratructure in the UK, they can't prevent VPN use, either.

This is a technological money pit and the pit is on fire.