Albert Loo

husband, father, @asu alum, #riskmgt pro, #fincrime specialist, #infosec nerd, #ai safety advocate, always curious, #VeryAsian (opinions are my own)

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

This is too funny. Can’t believe this is actually a true story. @LenaMiculek is as a genuine pro shooter! Canadians, fudds lecture world-champ shooter about guns https://t.co/uBURHQrzlT via @Not_the_Bee

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

Interesting … NCUA Liquidates African Diaspora FCU, Just Over Year After Granting Charter / Fresh Today / https://t.co/TMpUTwoXsd - CU Today https://t.co/kwOkrnHcn3 #ezpublish

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Advertisement for asbestos, 1960s

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

Today, @FinCENnews issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

#missouri lol

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Don’t get worked up about it, but I’m loving this map.

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

The change is a reaction to the economic and demographic realities.

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

Times have changed

[Jonathan Goodman 🇨🇦 @itscoachgoodman]

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.

My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.

This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:

Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.

This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.

I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.

"No way this affects me." I thought.

I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.

Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.

From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.

18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.

Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.

I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.

None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.

I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.

A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.

I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

This one page changed my life.

42 years ago today, it convinced my parents I shouldn't go back to college.

I started by upgrading PCs from a dorm room.

Today @Dell is helping build the infrastructure that powers AI, from the edge to some of the world's largest AI factories.

You never know which small decision will change everything.

Keep building🚀🙏 #PlayNiceButWin

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

A family of four now needs $178,000 to $301,000 a year to get by in America.

Meanwhile, the median U.S. household only earns $83,730.

The American Dream now requires an income most will never earn.

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

Everyone in St. Louis is dead

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Arizona State University is now offering a degree in becoming an influencer

Students must build a social media account and prove they can gain real followers to graduate

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

2nd semi final

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

Sad situation. Praying for safety and recovery.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely HORRIFYING video footage is emerging from Southeast Missouri after a ‘1-in-1,000-year flood' prompted over 350 rescues.

The damage gives me so many flashbacks to Hurricane Helene here in Western North Carolina.

Please pray for these people!!!!!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

Lol

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

That’s awesome!!

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

.@TrumpAccounts are now live, giving every child a stake in the American Dream from day one thanks to @POTUS.

The Trump Accounts app is now updated with the full suite of account capabilities: you can start funding your child’s account, exploring financial education modules, and more.

Visit https://t.co/PEeRkzlkD1 and download the official Trump Accounts app to access your child’s account before markets open on Monday.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

You bought a smart TV on Amazon.

Wanted to watch Netflix.

The TV already had malware on it before it shipped.

That malware turns your home internet connection into a proxy exit node.

So cybercriminals can route their attacks through your address.

And your address gets blamed.

Two million home devices.

Smart TVs. Streaming boxes. Android TV.

All part of the NetNut botnet called Popa.

In one week in June Google caught 316 different hacker groups using those exit nodes.

Password sprays. Espionage ops. Ransomware reconnaissance.

Coming from your home IP.

While your internet bill was paying for the bandwidth.

NetNut is owned by a publicly traded Israeli company called Alarum Technologies.

On Nasdaq.

They sold this proxy access to resellers.

Who sold it to other resellers.

Who sold it to criminals.

The FBI just seized their domains.

Google disabled their accounts.

Alarum’s legal counsel said they will fully cooperate.

Your home network has been a crime scene for months.

And the only way to know is if someone raids a datacenter.

The TV still works.

Netflix is still loading.

The backdoor is still open.

[Albert Loo @AlbertCLoo]

Not a good look…

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Super Micro Computer stock, $SMCI, falls over -9% on the day on news that the company's office has been raided as Taiwan expands its "chip smuggling" probe.

[vegastar @vegastarr]

This Is Who We Were...
Before The World Told Us Who To Be. 🔺👁️

Pure.
Whole.
Unconditional Love.✨💛