313 Team posting clumsily made video about attacking Bluesky with DDoS now.

lol

I’m not sure what hacktivist groups that have these capabilities are being referred to here. The vast majority are doing DDoS. Maybe groups like Handala Hack which are widely suspected to be the Iranian government in the online equivalent of a Guy Fawkes mask? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dear @support.bsky.team please use some of your hundred million dollars on some serious DDoS mitigation, because after this last week other groups will be looking to grab some headlines by giving this site a severe kicking.

They couldn’t make Real Genius today because audiences would be confused why a bunch of nerds would sabotage selling their technology to the military-industrial complex

This still seems to be going on, 313 Team are the dog that caught the car and aren’t sure what to do next.

The FBI takes 686 days on average to respond to an *expedited* FOIA request. Give me a break.

Right. Obvious to people who follow it, less clear to lay people who see this and start to wonder why which again is very understandable but some of the speculation I saw flying by in the feed is very silly.

There are a lot of non-cyber folks speculating wildly about how and why and what it all means, all understandable questions. Before searching for deep and hidden meaning, I would urge you to consider the ancient strategy of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks

I think part of why generative AI has gotten such a following among tech bros is because so many guys I have dealt with working in tech, intelligent and knowledgeable people in their fields, just cannot string sentences together at all and find it very hard to explain problems or solutions in text.

People were persuaded to give up piracy because legitimate platforms were seen as priced low enough to be worth avoiding the hassle and potential risk of hunting down pirate sites and downloading movies or music. As people are squeezed financially and prices rise, that logic just does not hold now.

Yes. Same group as last week. And, same ones attacking Mastodon right now.

This is taking longer than expected, but our server should be back online with substantially more storage later this week.

Is it a good or bad sign for the US economy that my Instagram feed is full of people trying to come up with homebrew methods of extracting gold from SIM cards and old TVs?

Bluesky being packeted to fuck again by 313 Team. Sounds like some of that hundred million needs to go into DDoS mitigation.

@bsky.realhackhistory.org found another ancient "hacker" movie. Written and directed by Michael Crichton of all people.

Platforms and services that email you to tell you that you need to log in to their app or website to retrieve a message or announcement of some kind. No context, no details as to what the thing they want to tell you is.

people keep telling me to touch grass but my computer says that file already exists

Infosec people, help me out! Apparently South Korea and Kazakhstan have identified and arrested the leader of a ransomware operation active since 2022 What group is this? www.newsis.com/view/NISX202...

If anyone has old copies of these kind of magazines kicking around, can you please hit up @bsky.realhackhistory.org.

Photocopy scans of Hacker Defence (Line?) magazine, a #hacker magazine from #China that ceased publication in I think 2015. I regret that these aren’t better copies and I am working on tracking them down. #hacking #history archive.org/details/2000...

"Asherah gave me the number of the FBI agent in charge of Anonymous tips, I just called him up and spoke to him to explain our position, he said he'd pass along my contact info to the other agents out in California." - Barrett Brown to Gregg Housh, April 27, 2011

Asherah/A5h3r4 was one of several anti-Anonymous people at the time who worked with the FBI and claimed to have doxed Sabu before his arrest and subsequent FBI cooperation. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... web.archive.org/web/20130315...

Why does Bluesky still not have the option of doing a poll? Like fuck editing, fuck AI doohickeys, can we just get basic shit?

And how are those models trained? A small group of underfunded open source developers? Or did it require a corporation pouring vast amounts of compute at data from the kind of vast scraping tasks that get your connection killed for TOS and the kind of piracy that regular people get jailed for?

Imagine if someone was kicked out of Occupy as an informant and then ran the old YourAnonNews with Gregg Housh while running Anonymous ops while getting paid to write about Anonymous and then was friends with Sabu and then tried to keep Topiary's police interviews quiet. Wouldn't that be something?

Man if this dude had been in charge of the FBI in the nineties there’d be a lot of old hackers in the U.S. who wouldn’t have criminal records now.

Schrödinger's Strait of Hormuz.

Checking in on regional and national hacktivist groups on Telegram and discovering racist slurs and usage of racist slurs that I had not previously seen or imagined. Russian, Indian and Pakistani groups are, I’d say, the most out of line.

Tyler Buchanan, a Scottish Scattered Spider hacker has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack the computers of at least a dozen companies and to steal $8m crypto from individuals. I wrote about his arrest in my book. Looks like we have our 2nd SS conviction now... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I've been uploading #hacking magazines from #China, some of which have been removed for reasons I don't understand, to Internet Archive. This is a decent scan of an issue of Hacker Defence (or Hacker Defence Line?) from I think the early to mid 00s. #hacker #history archive.org/details/hack...

NoName057(16) boasting of gaining access to CCTV cameras and how they can see “The kitchen. The parking lot. The warehouse. The restaurant hall. The garden center. And every customer.” Chilling stuff. As the war goes on these groups get weirder and weirder.

313 Team still claiming to be giving Bluesky a DDoS kicking today, not a great idea to announce an attack when the platform isn’t actually down. Not great advertising for the booter service.

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Just saw a trailer for the Michael Jackson movie and the entire cast look computer generated what is going on

I've been uploading #hacking magazines from #China, some of which have been removed for reasons I don't understand, to Internet Archive. This is a decent scan of an issue of Hacker Defence (or Hacker Defence Line?) from I think the early to mid 00s. #hacker #history archive.org/details/hack...

Tech companies weren’t satisfied with just hoarding money, now they have everyone hoarding history and culture in the form of media too.

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

Why is denial of service not mentioned by the official status account that references “further issues” and “fixes”, but the COO blames the Bluesky outage on an attack?

Just like “the cloud”, it turns out people realise that AI is just other people’s computers.

in addition to this I think it's worth bearing in mind that one of bluesky's tech leads once put his phone in a swimming pool because it was overheating then was surprised that this broke it

No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit

The UK has passed a bad, unworkable, lumbering, political law that failed because it didn't take into account the reality of the internet or technology. They are flailing, and proposing even more draconian, privacy invasive, pro-censorship methods to save face.

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