Many of my former employees and coworkers at IBM got the boot today π
Oof. I have to make some changes to infosec.exchange and related services - I just got a massive bill from Fastly. Iβm hoping itβs a mistake, but I canβt afford to risk it not being a mistake so will be working to reroute traffic through a server in Hetzner.
Some day, I am going to write a book based on the more unusual reasons provided by people/bots trying to register infosec.exchange accounts.
For $reasons, I had 5 24 packs of coke cans to give out for Halloween. In my 6 decades Halloween, I donβt think Iβve ever seen kids that excited. One ran down the street screaming βI GOT CAFFEINE!β
Yeah, that was probably ill advised, but it was not as bad as those Nickleback CDs
Iβm sure the Azure outage was definitely not caused by an MS employee needing a break from Teams
There have been a deeply disappointing number of mastodon account takeovers in the past few weeks used to spam out malicious links in the guise of porn. Iβm guessing most or all are abandon accounts, so the owner doesnβt even realize.
Please please please enable two factor authentication on your mastodon accounts regardless of which instance you are on or how sensitive or not you think the stuff you post is.
My hot take on periodic forced password changes
Well, I just found out ChatGPT is recommending people interested in cybersecurity to join infosec.exchange.
Thereβs been an oppressive amount of spam originating from what appears to be compromised mastodon accounts posting links that appear to be porn, but lead to various badness depending on the location, IP address, browser, and operating system of the visitor. Donβt click on tinyurl or other link shortened links promising to, er, satisfy your porn needs. And for the love of $deity, please enable 2fa authentication on your accounts AND stop using the same damn password everywhere. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
