The asbestos of cellular networks - SS7 - strikes again! By @lighthousereports.com www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

This malware is obfuscated

I love how “the Pope says a fairly basic Catholic thing and it offends Catholics” has been a thing ever since I can remember

Please tell me this is a joke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollatsch

It’s like people who watch “South Park” and root for Cartman because they think he’s the hero of the series

13) This isn't news to me, but the manosphere complaint that "you can't compliment anyone anymore!" is bullshit. I compliment people constantly, all day, and get warm smiles and heartfelt thanks and watch people walk away in a better mood. The secret is not being a gross creep about it.

Every government who contributed to this leak probably will have this song on repeat in their press room youtu.be/9IG3zqvUqJY

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

When a BBC reporter can do this, without privileged access to communications data, I find it hard to accept law enforcement's constant claim that they are "going dark" because of encrypted messaging. Encryption is not the main obstacle to effective law enforcement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Go Poland! :)

It’s not hard to let people enjoy shit you don’t like!

“We have to be inclusive of racists otherwise they may not vote for us” is certainly an interesting take.

This is hilarious

Turns out I should’ve just sent AI slop abstracts instead of malware research :(

lmao, apparently this guy managed to give two different talks at two of the the biggest hacking conferences using AI generated slop that doesn't even make any sense. Welcome to infosec in 2025.

This is accurate.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I'm pretty happy with my adulting skills today. I went to the pharmacy some time ago to buy a bunch of cold medicine and supplies in case I ever get cold and don't feel like going out. Well, today I got a really bad cold and I don't have to go to the pharmacy. Win!

I have an unpopular opinion: I have literally no idea why people in the UK are so against any form of ID card. Literally none. Trying to open a bank account in the UK is such a mess, it cannot be made any worse.

🦢I just came back from a nice morning fun with friends, we hunted down a swan and tore it apart with our bare hands, bathing in its innards and screaming hymns to the Old Gods. That's what we do at the savage frontier. Please come visit.

I’m a Polish immigrant in London and I’ve heard stories about Polish immigrants eating swans from the first day I moved to London. This conspiracy theory goes back over 20 years. Find some new xenophobic material.

An update: made it!

1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area. Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.

Nerdy personal news: tomorrow I will visit the 50th country in my life. It’s a silly statistic but ever since I can remember I just wanted to travel. When I was little I went on long walks just to make it to the next town over so that it would count as “travelling”. Little me would be so proud!

I'm on my way to #VB2025, the Virus Bulletin conference, representing @silentpush.bsky.social. Come and say hello if that's your thing.

I'm excited to speak at #VB2025 later this week! I'll be diving into TAG-124, a group whose services are leveraged by a wide range of actors, from cybercriminals to state-sponsored groups. Hit me up if you are in town! www.virusbulletin.com/conference/v...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

If you’re a true sicko, check out the related article “How Bloomberg News Vetted the Epstein Emails” with all the sicko details: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Maybe instead of blaming “the kids these days” consider investing in better cybersecurity so that LITERAL CHILDREN cannot hack your systems? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Liberty Cabbage en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liberty...

I’m one chapter into „It Can’t Happen Here” - a novel from the 1930s about a rise of an imaginary US politician from an election campaign all the way to dictatorship - and it’s really good so far. You can read it for free! NO SPOILERS gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/030...

I think every cybersecurity expert let a huge sigh because they know this attitude all too well

Reality has a well known liberal bias

lol

4chan and Kiwifarms are suing British AV regulator Ofcom over age-verification enforcement, calling it the “official censor of the British state.” Ofcom says they’ll arrest the site’s operators. I won’t say I’m conflicted here, but boy does this work make for strange bedfellows.

I’ve recently had someone use „woke” to mean, essentially, „having emotional intelligence”… Apparently not throwing fits and managing emotions is woke.

You may not like it but this is what peak Poland looks like. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve just learned that „cybersecurity asset management” uses the acronym CSAM. I’ve learned it by reading a sentence „setup a reliable inventory of digital assets (CSAM)” and being extremely confused and concerned. I think we need a different acronym.

What do you call a clickbait that doesn’t work because the answer is so obvious you don’t need to click?

I didn’t predict that the Online Safety Act is going to lead to a legal battle between the UK Government and 4chan but it seems like a perfect next step in this saga

THINK OF THE CHILDREN! For each packet you send without the use of a VPN one child becomes thought of.

1/ Today, we release a first-of-its-kind analysis of a set of Lumma affiliates within a vast info-stealing ecosystem, showing their interconnectedness and resilience even after a major law enforcement takedown attempts earlier this year: www.recordedfuture.com/research/beh...

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

ICE is now clean on OPSEC. www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

Hey, genAI did something (potentially) very good! I would write something snarky about funding for this type of use case vs funding for chatbots but it’s almost weekend, so let’s just be happy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A PR company working for Colossal Biosciences is sending AI generated pieces to respected science journalists & asking them to publish the articles under their own names. This is so dodgy & just goes to show our critical expert scientific commentary is working. Sci comm failure 101 for Colossal.

Legal threats and refusing to acknowledge the vulnerability is sooo early 2000s 🙄