The enshittification of email has led to their announcement emails getting filed to spam by Google etc al. (We run our own mailserver and have been wrestling with this for years, but at least our livelihoods don't depend on it!)
But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.
It's been 40 years since #EmmanuelGoldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing @2600: The #Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first #phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Mandiant's X account was compromised through a brute-force password attack by a drainer-as-a-service (DaaS)* group. The account lacked two-factor authentication (2FA), which could have mitigated the attack.
*(DaaS): A Drainer-as-a-Service is a type of cyber attack where hackers sell access to their botnets, which are networks of computers controlled remotely.
"Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked"
Now that's security!
To be fair, though, it's more like a Twitter security issue...
Then again, what kind of security firm still advertises on Twitter?
Lieve mensen, ik werd dus gehackt en kan met geen mogelijkheid bij mijn profiel inloggen. Iets met de 2 staps authenticator die het inloggen onmogelijk maakt. Nu heb ik dus een nieuw account en ga ik proberen jullie weer te vinden 🤞.
Als jullie me willen boosten dan gaat het vast sneller.
Un linker type R4 pour la Nintendo switch qui lancerait tout les jeux, sur tout les modèles et versions de consoles à ce jour...? 🤔
Avouons que l'on peut rester dubitatif, mais cela laisse rêveur tant qu'il y a un proof of concept dans les prochains moment et que ce n'est pas un fake video.
Nettoyage annuel des ordi familiaux. La nièce avait des Adwares qui popaient régulièrement. Après 10 min a fouiller les fichiers système, je suis tombé sur ce script.
Je n’ai pas ma machine sous la main, j’analyserai ça plus tard dans une sandbox.