karver @karver@infosec.exchange

VirtualBox 6.0 released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723936
#hackernews #tech

Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18720187
#hackernews #tech

Show HN: 𝕱𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖞 𝖋𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖆𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖆𝖓𝖞𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701772
#hackernews #tech

RT @amnestyusa@birdsite.link
UPDATE: @theintercept has just reported that Google has shelved plans for Dragonfly, its censored search app for China.

#dropdragonfly https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/

https://twitter.com/amnestyusa/status/1074752736263057413

Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18581269
#hackernews #tech

RT @zooko@birdsite.link
This has been exploited in practice by Bitcoin thieves. They replaced the cold-wallet address in a hacked server so that BTC got redirected to them, and they vanity-generated their addr to match the first and last chars of the original and this successfully fooled the victims.

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1068902564152975362

The event-stream library in NPM has been backdoored with a Trojan for some time. Looks like a damn mess. If you do/did anything with that library, time to put your helmet on.

Citizens of infosec.exchange: i will very likely be migrating to a new server this weekend. Several things to note:
1. The new server does not have an IPv6 address. Apparently there is a shortage of IPv6 addresses and hosting providers are rationing them.
2. I will be applying the glitch.social mods, which will provide longer toot length, among other enhancements.
3. The new server uses NVMe SSD’s, which I’ve been told are so fast that you may get toots even before you’ve asked for them.

@jerry @smays there is a cool podcast about the machine that generates the sitcom laughs: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-laff-box/

I read a bit about #PrimeNumbers yesterday, as I've always had a fondness for primes. I use them a lot in config settings for servers, as when you get weird timeouts, it's usually very obvious from a multiple of a given prime which timeout is being hit.

Paint16b: A 16 byte paint program written in 12 lines
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481929
#hackernews #tech

Forgot your #instagram password? You just had to use their GDPR export tool to get it in plain text https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/17/18100235/instagram-security-bug-exposed-user-passwords-data-download-tool

Anyone running their mastodon instance using a cloud hosting object storage service (s3, etc)? I am in awe at how fast the storage needs of infosec.exchange are growing. #mastoadmins

Well written @wired piece about the real risks of using free wifi nowadays
TL;DR: If you're you're no high-value target you're probably safe as most (commonly used) websites are served over HTTPS.
https://www.wired.com/story/hotel-airport-wifi-safe/
#Infosec #CyberSecurity

#Defrag simulator

http://hultbergs.org/defrag/

#Nostalgia #RetroComputing

Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468651
#hackernews #tech

Japan cyber security minister admits he has never used a computer. More secure than any of us!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/japan-cyber-security-ministernever-used-computer-yoshitaka-sakurada

Old MacDonald had a CPU instruction set, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.alangref/idalangref_eieio_instrs.htm