Hi all. In order to make the Defensive Security Podcast content a bit more approachable and easier to navigate, I've created a playlist of individual stories/segments we cover here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzHXsgtVDQEq9JiCbwJojE4nd9dRVAT5l
Note: I've only gone back 4 episodes, but will be doing this for all episodes going forward.
Happy holidays!
Many of us will have some time off over the next few weeks. Some of us have more than others 
Be sure to reflect on what it all means. It’s cold and crappy in the northern hemisphere and Australia is on fire. It’s a time of retailers marking things up to put them on sale. It’s a time for passive aggressive political discussions with relatives. It’s a time to read about the famous people you never met who died over the past year.
But above all else, it’s a time to push that code to production. Push like you’ve never pushed before.
@rallias @ryanc @screaminggoat @hacks_zach @GossiTheDog yeah, but the way it’s displayed has been updated
@ryanc @screaminggoat @hacks_zach @GossiTheDog a recent mastodon/glitch-soc update did change that
On the -7th day of Christmas Fortinet gave to meeee a critical Fortigate C… V….
On the -7th day of Christmas Fortinet gave to meeee a critical Fortigate C… V…. EEEEEE
I really hate LinkedIn
If you can't be part of the solution, be part of the problem! So here is today's DefSec Today: https://youtube.com/shorts/cbjPHyf8u5U
@aleksandralesya it’s a little quieter. I think lots of people are doing other stuff instead of being online. Like decorating the house for the holidays or out watching the drones
Holy moly - gandi.net’s prices have gone through the rough. Get ye to porkbun
Everyone seems to be asking where the drones in New Jersey are coming from but no one is asking what the people in NJ are up to that requires so many drones to keep an eye on
The infosec./fedia./convo.casa systems had been running continuously for a year. I use Ubuntu's live patch, which provides kernel security fixes in a way that does not require a reboot, however that only works for a year, then you have to reboot, and well, I'm a security guy so I wasn't going to do without patches.
Apologies for the downtime and I hope y'all have a good weekend.
remarkably, the problem with my storage server is that after reboot, the god damned network interface changed from enp7s0 to enp6s0
Reminder: infosec.exchange and all other infosec/fedia sites are about to be rebooted and will be unavailable for about 10 minutes at the top of the hour.
I am thinking about renting one of these beauties and heading up up New Jersey to sort out this drone nonsense https://www.adorama.com/us1627462.html?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADxgUsyk7oVRn_lzeH6wly60--GkH&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0--6BhCBARIsADYqyL8bLKwi-F8x9gEjiqlY3i30am6Y2mHb6ebadQwhm4u6jbSeHbOCaRYaAhsjEALw_wcB&utm_source=inc-google-shop-p
TIL that Yahoo is still a thing and they just laid off 1/4 of their security team. I’m sure nothing bad will happen as a result.
I woke up this morning and realized that I wasn’t feeling fully connected with the world. As I lay there staring at the ceiling, I pondered how I had relied on Time magazine to keep me informed decades ago, but I realized I hadn’t engaged with them at all for many years. After some more soul searching, it struck me that the reason I haven’t thought much about Time is their utter lack of AI. No chatbots, no AI search engines, and certainly no AI produced articles.
Well, imagine my complete surprise when one of my AI minions stumbled upon this post from Time: https://time.com/7201556/generative-ai-time-journalism/
This friday is Friday the 13th. The proper way to avoid the bad luck that day can cause is to push your code to production before you leave for the day.
@jwildeboer FWIW, I recently had an albeit non-scientific discussion with the fire marshal of a city about the fire hazard of batteries. My take away from the discussion is that we have to segment the discussion into two - batteries that are made by reputable companies with reasonable safety standards and those that are super cheap (he mentioned buying through Alibaba as being problematic, but guessing both good and bad can be bought there but that people shopping there tend to look for the cheapest thing with the specs they want)
