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#Infosec2025: Good Cybersecurity Enabled Ukraine’s Surprise Attack on Russia, Says NCSC
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/infosec2025-ukraine-drone-atta…

#Infosec2025: Good Cybersecurity Enabled Ukraine’s Surprise Attack on Russia, Says NCSC
Effective cybersecurity played a key role Ukraine drone attack on Russian strategic bombers, a leading government security expert has claimed

Just like one prevents losing money by having none.
But seriously, “just use Linux” is the territorial call of the not-so-bright teenage geek. It screams of solipsism and inexperience. I say this as someone who has never chosen Windows for anything.
The idea that the solution to #infosec is for organizations to dump Windows and run Linux instead is a childish fantasy.

One #infosec example of the very many NSF funding awards being revoked:
"Hudson County Community College (HCCC) was awarded a $599,811 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for its program, “Nurturing Resilience: Empowering the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals with a Focus on Women.” The program goals are to recruit and retain more women in the HCCC Cybersecurity Prog…

Hudson County Community College Receives $600,000 National Science Foundation Grant to Expand Its Nationally Acclaimed Cybersecurity Program
The explosive demand for Cybersecurity is outpacing the supply of computer science professionals who assess threats and prevent attacks. Educational institutions, healthcare organizations, government, businesses, and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to evolving hazards including phishing, spoofing, malware, ransomware, and viruses.

Here's the #CFP for the 2025 #ICS #Cybersecurity Conference. The conference is Oct 27-30 at InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta.

2025 ICS Cybersecurity Conference: Call for Presentations
About the Conference - Know Your AudienceSecurityWeek’s ICS Cybersecurity Conference is the conference where ICS users, ICS vendors, system security p...

A salutary reminder from work Slack: important backups (including recovery codes) should be stored in more than one location.
#Infosec #security #backups

Nonmention:
If you are victim to a ransomware attack and your data gets leaked on the darknet, you shouldn't write a press release that this happened "despite your high security standards", when everyone can see your standards in your password file PW.docx.
#infosec #ransomware

Is this a parody?
I don’t do #InfoSec or other cons so I don’t have a strong sense of whether the “Open Space” concept is brilliant or uproariously absurd. I lean towards the latter because it just seems to me like a recipe for people standing around.

Not so much, really.
This is yet another case of an academic setting up a very special circumstance that doesn’t match the real world to create a “vulnerability” that is never going to be used in the real world.
Ever been in a proper data center? Was it quiet?
#InfoSec

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
#infosec …

Had to unscrew 21 screws to open a laptop. TWENTY-ONE!
And only to then tear off the cable to the speaker which was hidden under the cover.
Guess what manufacturer :-)
#DigitalForensics #DFIR

Another tool for our arsenal of protections against adversarial bots:
#zipbomb #zipbombs #bots #crawlers #aislop #infosec

OH on work slack while joking about how ridiculous infosec gatekeeping can be:
IF YOU’VE NEVER CHANGED YOUR BAUD RATE BY ADJUSTING DIP SWITCHES, I’M NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR CYBERSECURITY OPINIONS
#greyscale #infosec #sre #secops @… @… @…

I have a trick for getting into a box that’s being clobbered by a crawler DDoS: set the ITerm2 profile to auto-restart and open a half-dozen duplicate sessions. Basically: put a bunch of my SYNs in the queues to compete with the bots.
Ugly as sin, but it ultimately works.
Also: fuck those guys. And fuck their ISPs for being so comatose that they don't notice.
#InfoSec

If your day begins with debugging the registry entries of one of your tools to make it run - you know it's gonna be a great day.
But hey... it was simple. Just delete every registry key of it.
#DigitalForensics #DFIR

#DigitalForensics department doing hot stuff in their rooms today!
#DFIR #forensics #InfoSec