As an IT admin something I learned the hard way was to never trust yourself to not misconfigure anything. Double check your work, even get a second set of eyes on it. Your future self will thank you.
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Which security controls reduce cyber risk and by how much?
Until recently, vendors tried to answer with peacock like competition, e.g. ever fancier marketing campaigns.
Our new article is a step towards answering with empirical evidence.
Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. "The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run...widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched" https://t.co/yjQTogcIzk
1/ The man who did the most damage to American industry was Jack Welch, as the CEO of GE. The Boeing engineering disaster had roots in Welch's deeply flawed management doctrines which were spread across American industry by his acolytes.
This has to be understood in India too.
Given how strongly memory in humans is organized around spatial memory, and given that a common memory technique is storing facts in imagined spatial surroundings, the possibility for vision-pro like devices on reverse engineering and program understanding are vast.
An HK-based employee of a multinational firm wired out $25M after attending a video call where all employees were deepfaked, including the CFO.
He first got an email which was suspicious but then was reassured on the video call with his “coworkers.”