If you’re in London today, head across to the Greene Man for a couple of excellent talks.

Just got started at BSides Tirana!

Some nice new stickers from Ogsec 😎

OSINTMAILER Email information gathering #Python tool: - search avatar in Gravatar - check email reputation - check Github account registration - quick links to google dorks for email info/social media accounts/search github.com/techenthusia... Creator x.com/CtPrecious #socmint

Every time I buy a Flipper product the box looks so good that I have to keep it.

Another enjoyable @steelcon.info with great people, great talks, and the usual quality swag.

Excellent swag at today’s SteelCon (as usual). It’s been great to see so many familiar and friendly faces too.

My new version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite is feature-complete! Now for some testing. Here's the feature list. It’s big! Big enough that this is effectively a Compendium version of Electron Elite; to sit proudly alongside the #BBCMicro Compendia. 🫡 Not long now! #retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit

The slides from my talk at BSides Umea are here. Useful for anyone interested in fixing a fictional AI in a sci-fi movie... github.com/N1ckDunn/OWA...

For anyone who’s at BSides Umea and wants to see me take a fun subject like 2001: A Space Odyssey and make it all about cybersecurity, my talk is this afternoon: indico.neic.no/event/273/ti...

For anyone who was at DC4420 (@dc4420.bsky.social) on Tuesday, thanks for all the appreciation for my talk. Slides are available here: github.com/N1ckDunn/SOS...

Currently working on a non-trivial jigsaw puzzle. It may take some time.

Aaah @campuscodi.risky.biz has done a better write up on this with today’s newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... He details the oversight body too, which I wasn’t aware of. Catalin is epic and you should subscribe

Fact: The most dangerous vulnerabilities are the ones nobody knows about yet. From Day Zero to Zero Day by Eugene Lim teaches you how to find them first. Preorder now with code SPACERACCOON for 30% OFF through 5/20.

I cannot stress this enough: do the weird thing. The hobby, the course, the group, the volunteering, the reading, the relationship, the home. If people take the piss, so much the better – chances are it will make you happier than their bland minds can conceive. Be brave.

Learn about monitoring inauthentic accounts and conducting investigations into Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) in our next Stage Talk on Thursday, 4pm CEST/10am EDT. We're joined by the @doublethinklab.bsky.social team live in our Discord Server discord.gg/FGq4XfYm?eve...

If you’re in the area and have kids with an interest hacking, programming, IT, electronics, then take them to a con where the kids track looks like more fun than the adult track.

Good friend of the con @finux.bsky.social needs somewhere to stay while in Sheffield for the event, does anyone have a spare hotel bed or room he could use for a couple of days while over here?

Think those logins are safe? Think again. The World Password Day flash sale is now online. Unlock 30% off all cybersecurity + hacking books with code PASSWORD123. Ends at midnight PT. Don’t sleep. nostarch.com/catalog/secu...

@dc4420.bsky.social The resuscitation edition of DC4420 will be on Tuesday 29th April 2025 commencing from 19:00. New venue is: Greene Man (Euston),383 Euston Road,London,NW1 3AU (maps.app.goo.gl/mPahakU6ZFmQ...) Nearest Tube: Great Portland Street, Warren Street. · Share · Like · Enjoy

My slides from BSides Prishtina are now available on GitHub. github.com/N1ckDunn/SOS... github.com/N1ckDunn/Dou...

The CFP is open for one of the friendliest cons that has the best swag. (if you have children, the kids' track at SteelCon looks better than the adult track)

Vote on swag for the next edition of the con with the best swag.

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Hackers rejoice! We are releasing the Phrack 71 PDF for you today! Don't forget this year is Phrack's 40th anniversary release! Send in your contribution and be part of this historical issue! The CFP is still open, you can find it and the PDF link at phrack.org

My initial data-bouncing code rewritten in Go is in GitHub. It barely counts as Alpha code right now but I have plans to improve it and add a GUI. github.com/N1ckDunn/Int...

Amazing work.

My ggrandfather was a decorated war hero in WWI-- He firmly believed that would save him when the nazis came for the other jews. He was wrong, and he ended up in the camps. Luckily, his children had all gone into hiding by that time, and survived.

Project Zero is hiring 🎉 Please share with anyone you think would be great for the team www.google.com/about/career...

SE Radio 650: Robert Seacord on What’s New in the C Programming Language se-radio.net se-radio.net/2025/01/se-r... Have a listen!

One of the finest hackers & humans to ever hack the planet needs our help. Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers on the other site) is lucky to be alive & we are luckier to be able to help him. Donate if you can, and please *share* to spread the word. gofund.me/27112e30

I'm really proud to present my fully documented source code for #Elite on the #Commodore64. This is the original 1985 source, recently released by Ian Bell, with every single line of code explained. It’s a thing of beauty. Enjoy! github.com/markmoxon/el... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit #c64

I’ve received the perfect Christmas gift which means I can play Manic Miner while Christmas dinner is in the oven.

You will be visited by three spirits

I decided to put together a starter pack of oldskool hacker and/or hacker-adjacent folks you may want to follow (Or, y'know, maybe you want to block them all, what do I know? You do you, homeslice.) go.bsky.app/HQWqtno

For anyone who didn’t know, @nostarchpress.bsky.social are now on Bluesky.

We updated our CFP for Phrack 72! The deadline is now April 1st 2025. Check the site for specifics on how to contribute, as well as some inspiration! We also posted a link to purchase physical copies of Phrack 71, and a donation link too. Enjoy! phrack.org

For anyone who attended my talk at @bsideslondon.bsky.social yesterday on Using The OWASP Top 10 to Save the Astronauts from HAL, I've put the slides online. github.com/N1ckDunn/OWA...

For anyone who's attending @bsideslondon.bsky.social tomorrow, I'll be speaking at 10:00, and dragging some interesting sci-fi concepts into mundane reality when I discuss "Using the OWASP Top 10 to Save the Astronauts from HAL".

I've just rewritten ActiveScan++ in Java to lay the foundation for some major enhancements. It's not in the BApp store yet but if you'd like to take it for a spin you can grab it here: github.com/albinowax/Ac...

I love a good wristwatch.

While everyone waits for the next @bsideslondon.bsky.social, here are my slides from the previous event. This isn't entirely for self-promotion 😆, it's also because of the lack of resources out there for SOSL injection Apex and Java code for Salesforce. github.com/N1ckDunn/SOS...

In a couple of weeks I'll be speaking at @bsideslondon.bsky.social on the subject of Using the OWASP Top 10 to Save the Astronauts from HAL. After the con, I'll publish the slides for anyone interested in using secure software development to prevent a fictional AI from killing fictional astronauts.

Labelers where you can label accounts that frequently post AI images, have AI profile pics, etc: bsky.app/profile/did:...

A couple of quality of life recommendations for bluesky I have found useful, moderation lists where you can effectively auto block or auto mute accounts you may not want to see, such as: bsky.app/profile/did:...

2025 OWASP Top 10 Risk & Mitigations for LLMs and Gen AI Apps genai.owasp.org/llm-top-10/

BSides London talk schedule has been published. It's time to plan your day wisely :-)

With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving. Here is a starter pack of major media outlets. Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.

I'm releasing a 0.1-alpha of bsky_analyzer.py It's not in the 'main' branch, that still looks empty, until I'm happy this 0.1-alpha works. Following the instructions at: github.com/mcbazza/bsky... Let me know if you try it, and how you get on with it. If the code looks bad, remember: I'm not a Dev

Just a reminder we have a mailing list, we don't send many emails but as the #BSidesLDN2024 conference is coming up, there is some information being released via it in the next few weeks (maybe sooner, hint hint). bit.ly/BSidesLDNMai... #Security #BSides #London #MailingList