Lesault @Lesault@infosec.exchange

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill deletes his Facebook account over political ads. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51090918

THEYRE HERE

Stop everything. Update Firefox now.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/stop-everything-update-firefox-now/

~Open Source Security Tool of the Day~

#osstotd

BLAKE3 is a cryptographic hash function that is:

Much faster than MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, and BLAKE2.

Secure, unlike MD5 and SHA-1. And secure against length extension, unlike SHA-2.

Highly parallelizable across any number of threads and SIMD lanes, because it's a Merkle tree on the inside.

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/README.md

@meonkeys "ongoing support" ha!

Hey #Scotland, welcome to the party! We’re glad you’re here. I’m looking forward to learning more about this whole independence thing. Hasn’t England been bugging you for, like, centuries? #TwitterExodusScotland

Earn $2.5 million if you find a remote zero-day exploit for Android
https://www.grahamcluley.com/earn-2-5-million-if-you-find-a-remote-zero-day-exploit-for-android/

Alone on Mars. The Curiosity rover hums itself “Happy Birth Day” every year on August 5th. Today, something responded to the humming.
#writingprompts #writing

Crosscut of an old waterpipe showing the layers of limescale built up over time. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/clus2j/crosscut_of_an_old_waterpipe_showing_the_layers/

Boris Johnson: EU must scrap the backstop to avoid a no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/johnson-varadkar-clash-over-irish-backstop-phone-call-brexit this is the same old - incredibly stupid - blackmail: give me want I want or I will blow my legs off...

RT @mccrory@twitter.com

So WhatsApp scans your content as you create it, if it find anything of interest it will silently send it to FB servers for analysis (all pre-encryption on the device side). Basically wiretapping on device. Pretty horrible stuff! https://twitter.com/paul_shetler/status/1155301922603094016

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mccrory/status/1155869427226808320

Brexit: mess with Good Friday and we’ll block UK trade deal, US politicians warn - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/31/brexit-mess-with-good-friday-and-well-block-uk-trade-deal-us-politicians-warn #brexit going well, I see...

I love my code monkey friends. You devs make the best stuff! I also loved my #Commodore64. So, I made a shirt to express my BASIC love.

The pun and terrible graphic below aside, the shirt is nice and is selling well.

https://cottonbureau.com/people/christopher-sikkenga

Dominic Cummings, who has already been tapped to be one of Boris Johnson's key advisers, was found in contempt of parliament for not turning up to an inquiry about false news in March of this year.

That’s why we should be wary when Barr and others say that exceptional access is possible without compromising encryption. Breaking encryption for law enforcement access is still breaking encryption, and we will fight it every step of the way. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/dont-let-encrypted-messaging-become-hollow-promise

The really long one in Tetris, now that was a block

Repurposed sea mine

700 million reasons for Equifax to remember to patch its vulnerable IT systems in future

https://www.grahamcluley.com/700-million-reasons-for-equifax-to-remember-to-patch-its-vulnerable-it-systems-in-future/

If you would like to spend half an hour of your precious time on this planet reading what I wrote after I spent a month or two thinking very hard about load balancers, boy do I have a link for you.

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2019/07/21/load-balancing-beyond-healthchecks/

(Recommended for anyone who experiences a vague malaise when they consider how to properly set up healthchecks.)