Austin Urfer

Tall, but not very dark or handsome.

[Real Post Folder @RealPostFolder]

>I remember my art prof telling us about this kind of thing
>big scam that's been going on since forever

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

"Hey smelly, I work for (company), we had a threat actor phish an employee and use ScreenConnect to get access to their computer. The Threat Actor then dropped a .exe on the computer. Our AV/EDR stopped it, but we don't know what it is. Do you want to see?"

> yes, absolutely, give me goopies
> give malware
> download
> look inside
> position independent c code
> points to section of memory
> xor'd several times
> un-xor's thingie in memory
> creates process of random thingie
> pauses process of random thinie
> hollows out process
> puts goopies it extracted from itself into it
> resumes process
> lol process hollowing from embedded payload
> payload not in .exe section
> payload in .rdata mixed with other stuff
> omg w/e fine, make me work
> run the goopie
> bonk with stick
> find thingie it hollowed out
> grab the magic goop from it
> yay
> look inside
> another .exe
> ok, .exe has .exe hidden inside, runs random .exe and puts secret .exe inside it
> look at secret .exe thingie
> c#.net .exe
> ok lol
> look inside
> has hidden .exe inside it
> omfg why bro are you doing this to me
> pull .exe out of hidden .exe (im on secret .exe two now)
> dies
> base64 encoded the .exe internally
> omfg why bro
> base64 decode second secret .exe internally
> get the goopies
> second .exe is actually .dll
> heavily obfuscated c#.net
> really annoying me now
> check virustotal
> second mystery .exe (actually .dll) never seen before
> look inside more
> sniff sniff
> sniff sniff
> PURE-RAT
> attributed to suspected Vietnamese Threat Actor group
> matches known tactics, techniques, and procedures of group
> matches details from Trellix and Huntress
> group still evolving
> went from noobs to doing p good malware

My Brother in Christ, your organization is (probably) being targeted by a known Vietnamese Threat Group

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Tokyo has a building whose entire job is to air condition other buildings. One plant in Shinjuku produces 65,000 tons of cooling capacity, roughly the output of 20,000 home AC units, and pipes chilled water underground to more than 20 skyscrapers at once.

The mechanism is called district cooling. Rather than every tower installing its own chillers and cooling towers, one central plant chills water with massive compressors and steam absorption chillers, then pushes it through insulated pipes beneath the streets. Each skyscraper just runs a heat exchanger. That giant fan visible from the observation deck is one building rejecting the heat of an entire district.

The math is why it wins. A chiller sized for one building has to survive that building's single worst hour. A plant sized for 20 buildings shares capacity, because offices, hotels, and department stores all hit peak load at different times. Central plants also run machines far bigger and more efficient than anything that fits on a rooftop, and they free the top floors of every connected tower, some of the most valuable real estate on the planet.

The plant generates its own electricity with gas turbines too. When the grid fails, it keeps cooling and powering the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building next door. Tokyo's disaster command center rides out blackouts on a neighborhood air conditioner.

The system started in 1971, before most of the skyscrapers it now serves existed. Tokyo laid the cooling grid first, then built the skyline on top of it.

[Real Post Folder @RealPostFolder]

>look up at the traffic poles
>you live in an open air prison

[Baaulp @Baaulp]

closest you're going to get to seeing how dark ages peasants acted

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"

When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.

[Ken James @openshutter21]

You'll have to forgive me if I'm not necessary celebrating our "freedom" when driving on I80 across the country after seeing thousands of cameras, plate readers, and WiFi/Bluetooth signal trackers every exit or two.

I'm reasonably positive that I got pulled over in Mississippi and my car searched because the system flagged my movements as suspicious since I'm a landscape photographer that just chases beautiful scenes. There was zero reason that I was pulled over and the cop never gave me one, even though I kept asking. I got no ticket and no warning. So this time I'm looking at cameras wondering if I'm gonna have another interaction while I just on my way to visiting my sick mother.

This is one of the reasons I rail against these kind of systems. It's a type of dystopian precrime system that is the beginning of having to always prove your innocence.

[Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation]

> notorious womanizer despite being fat and bald
> retires at 42 as the richest man in the colonies by building a fortune on posting
> world-leading scientist in his SPARE TIME despite little formal education
> hired by the government during the revolution to schmooze people in France
> founded the future most powerful country on earth
> died at an old age universally admired

Reminder: Ben Franklin was the biggest baller of all time

[M12RUS☦︎ @M12RUS]

Americans with Israel: NO
Americans with Japan:

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Some of the identified malicious streaming devices sold online that enroll users' home internet addresses in a residential proxy service.

[Stubbs, Medicinal Firearms Advocate @Stubbs_GunGuy]

I dont think I should be forced to share the road with whatever zograped type person needs the gerbil water bottle to refil their vape juice for their weird oral fixation fidget toy.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

A $70M Japanese maglev just flashed past at 310 mph, leaving a reporter silent.

[Jesse Tinsley @JesseTinsley]

Imagine telling someone in 1999…

The year is 2026.

The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.

The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.

Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.

People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.

The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.

Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.

AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.

The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.

You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.

People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.

The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.

And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

You heard the sounds from this sheet of metal, found in an alley in Compton, California, dozens of times.

Wait till you hear the constellation of sounds it makes.

This is the Legendary Percussion Sheet of Steve Forman!

[Chris Oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

RIP john adams you would have loved twitter

[Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast @thesovereignceo]

Parents - it’s YOUR job to protect your kids.

The government didn’t give your kid an iPhone or wide open access to social media.

The government didn’t decide the rules and boundaries in your home.

The government isn’t responsible for watching your kids, understanding this tech, using the safety tools, staying informed or having these important conversations with your child.

You had a million ways you could have been more involved before you needed to ask the government to step in to parent for you. Did you use them?

We never let our kids have screen time when they were little.

Their first phone (to their horror) was a flip phone.

When they were older we learned about and used every safety tool possible for us and we blocked access to social media platforms for our kids.

If our kids broke the rules they got punished and we had big conversations with them about why our rules are important. They didn't get free range on their phones and they didn't get privacy because I understood the dangers of a powerful computer in their pocket.

I had conversations with other parents when they would go to someone’s home about screen time and I also talked to my kids school about cell phone use in school.

It was hard work.

I had to pay attention and I had to be involved.

That’s the job when you’re a parent.

Not the governments.