I went through 400 #DFIR books spanning 46 years. I think DFIR has drifted away from investigating human behavior and acts and toward artifacts and computer events. That bothers me. Here’s what I found. 🧵
The NSA kept 1 lecture in a vault for 40 years. In 2024 they released it. It's Grace Hopper explaining the future of computing in 1982.
The channel that posted it: the National Security Agency's own YouTube.
Hopper stands at a podium in Navy uniform, a captain, and talks to a room of NSA staff for 90 minutes across 2 reels.
The title: "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People."
She compares the computer industry to the early automotive one, all custom parts and no standards, and argues software will become the hard problem, not hardware. She was right by decades.
She invented the first compiler and gave COBOL its shape. She kept a clock that ran backwards on her wall to prove rules can be questioned.
The tapes were too degraded for normal release, so the agency restored them before posting.
40 years in an NSA archive. 90 minutes. Now free.
DarkOwl's new report researches Darknet marketplaces - do not simply operate - they evolve, and that evolution leaves measurable traces in the data they generate.
Read more here 👉 https://t.co/uzhDjSExOm
Somewhere out there an open directory full of juicy data is just waiting… The question is: will a black hat stumble on it first, or will a white hat trip over it while looking for cat pictures? 😈
BreachForums has possibly returned at their original Onion address with what looks like it's original data.
I verified the Canary with the PGP and it is valid.
http://breached26tezcofqla4adzyn22notfqwcac7gpbrleg4usehljwkgqd[.]onion
BlackSuit Ransomware has just had their data leak site and negotiation portal seized by law enforcement
http://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd[.]onion
Operation Grayskull Dismantles Four Dark Web Child Abuse Platforms, Resulting in 18 Convictions and Over 300 Years of Combined Sentences
https://t.co/Bi4770uPVv