HAHA. Just realized I wrote a Patch Tuesday post this week but somehow never hit publish on it. I guess it's still good, but oh man I'm losing it.

In January I wrote about a series of six-and seven-figure cyberheists that were carried out using a voice phishing panel that is sold/rented from a cybercriminal who goes by the handle "Perm." It appears Perm has since renamed his vishing panel to "Krebs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

After reading some of the Epstein emails, I was compelled to look in Constella Intelligence and Spycloud for exposed passwords tied to Epstein's email address: Would you believe he reused the password "Ghislaine"? If he didn't tell all his secrets, he probably leaked them inadvertently through […]

If you are interested in purchasing or evaluating the quality of hand bound books here are some of the things I look for as a sign of "high quality" 1. Look at the "headband" this is the place where the pages meet the spine. A headband can be hand sewn, glued, or some combination of both. It's […]

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm […]

A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s effort to cancel collective bargaining agreements for VOA and USAGM employees, slamming the move as clear retaliation for the workers’ efforts to halt the dismantling government-funded news outlets […]

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯 https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

Another one of the new to me #leiden guerilla #art cobble stones.

I don't know how how it happened that this is how I found this out. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.

Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲 https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/boeing-has-a-carbon-emissions-problem-startup-charm-industrial-is-cleaning-up/

The salmon have arrived in our neighborhood! Last night's rain did the trick.

Best quote I've seen all day so far, from an Ars piece by @dangoodin on skepticism around OpenAI's breathless claim that a Chinese hacking group used Claude code to automate 90 percent of their attack: “I continue to refuse to believe that attackers are somehow able to get these models to jump […]

hey. Check out this squirrel

Is there a term for the inverse productivity achieved when you have so many tabs open that you can no longer see any favicons? If not, I'm going to spend some CPU cycles coining one. I feel like I hit this pivotal point almost daily, even though I'm working on many screens at once. The problem […]

This is pretty wild. Checkout.com got hacked by a group that claims to be Shiny Hunters again. Checkout said in blog post that it would not be extorted by criminals. "We will not pay this ransom. Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We […]

Historical perspective is fine and all that, but this headline comes across as just more whitewashing bullshit from WaPo's watered down opinion section.

It's not clear yet whether Epstein was ever able to share info with the Russians, but this could explain a lot. From Politico: "Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top […]

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

New, by me: Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text message lures, and convert phished […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

People like to complain about holiday decorations creeping into public spaces earlier and earlier each year. It's true: I did speaking gig in Nashville at the end October and they were already festooning the place with holiday wreaths and ribbons. But my big Grinch gripe is that the stupid […]

#WhoopingCough, aka #pertussis, is exploding in #Texas. #rfkjr#texas#pertussis#whoopingcoughst be proud. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5602511-texas-pertussis-cases-rise/

Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the newest member of Congress. https://tucson.com/news/local/government-politics/article_6fc34cd3-02aa-4cc5-a371-51ae9a27ec8f.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

I did not have "new surge of accounts on infosec.exchange due to X bungling their passkey migration" on my bingo card for today

Disgusting. Vile. Illegal. Republicans. GOP sneaks $500K bonus for senators probed by Jack Smith into shutdown-busting budget bill https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/ #TrumpDidThis #republicansdidthis #gopkakistocracy #americanfascistparty #project2025 […]

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

It has been an especially tough couple of days in a very rough time. I needed to remember beauty, so pulled up some photos of the aspens in their fall glory, from several weeks ago here in #newmexico. Maybe they can provide a moment of tonic for you too.

Surprised the POTUS hasn't pulled out his "I didn't know the guy I pardoned, it was my son-in-law's deal" excuse yet, as he did recently in response to 60 Minutes's questioning about why he pardoned the founder of Binance for money laundering. From the NYT: "In the final hours of President […]

President Trump demands air traffic controllers (who are facing a second missed paycheck) “report to work immediately.”

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US. The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This is probably the first album recommendation from Apple Music that I've actually enjoyed: The Universe Smiles Upon You ii, by Khruangbin. Can't really say the genre here, but a lot of this album is light on the vocals, which suits me just fine. Anyway, I'm really diggin it […]

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co-conspirator, is planning to apply for a commutation of her federal prison sentence, according to documents obtained by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and seen by CBS News […]

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

Anyone know what to do with 20 lbs of green tomatoes? I guess we can still broil them and turn them into green salsa. We're supposed to get a freeze overnight soon, and so furiously picked the unripe fruit. But now I'm looking at this pile thinking, this is nuts.

That icky sense of growing deeply ashamed for your country worsens with each passing day this sorry excuse for a human being remains in office. From the NYT: "The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income […]

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US. The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Enjoyed this Techcrunch piece about the new show Pluribus from the creator of Breaking Bad. Fun fact, the star of the new show Rhea Seehorn and I used to study for a statistics class together at GMU. I had such a secret crush back then (okay maybe still a little). "If you watched all the way to […]

Breaking #volcano News The USGS has a live feed on their YouTube channel :LRRR_zoom:

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. CBS News is gone; CNN seems about to follow. The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers […]

This is what the inventory of vehicle rentals looks like at Enterprise in Crystal City. The manager told me I got the last car that was available in northern Virginia. The CEO of Hertz, Gil West, is appealing for an end to the government shutdown, saying flight […] [Original post on journa.host]

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

This commentary by Lawrence Stowe nails it on why sanctioning bulletproof hosting providers doesn't work unless you also revoke their network resources at the same time (or preferably before sanctions are announced/leaked) […]

From the independent reporter Jacqueline Sweet (Disaster Girl): "An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any […]

The former DoJ employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s law enforcement surge in DC has been found not guilty of assault. https://wtop.com/dc/2025/11/man-who-threw-sandwich-at-federal-agent-in-washington-is-found-not-guilty-of-assault-charge/

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/115503399845524889 Intuit must be doing a little jig right now. "But the IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have spent millions lobbying Congress. The average American typically spends about […]

IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the Trump administration has confirmed. https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-not-available-2026-04f2d0c31bec80b55d122a0e76e08c36

New, from me: Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]