Igor

CISO • Cyber strategist • Startup founder & advisor

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Minnesota Rep Krista Knudsen says they just found out the state TURNED OFF tracking for money being sent overseas

They turned it on for 2 weeks. Saw all the money leaving, and Democrats quickly SHUT OFF TRACKING to allow it to keep happening

READ THAT AGAIN

“Today in the fraud committee, the Department of Human Services testified that they haven't been tracking the IP addresses of money that's being literally flown out of our state and where it's going.

They did turn on that reporting for 2 weeks, and they found that yes, a lot of those IP addresses were tied to overseas computers, and then they quickly shut it off after just 2 weeks of seeing where this money is actually going”

“Every time we turn around, it's just more and more fraud scandals in our state”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hmm

[Igor @CyberIgor]

@Bobthepilot @AviationSafety Post-maintenance test flights are done by "test pilots" now? Yeah, ok.

[Igor @CyberIgor]

Thank you @fox5dc and @MaureenUmehFox5 for having me on last Sunday to discuss NFT Day and the emerging digital economy.

https://t.co/mi6BdBzMBD

#NFT #crypto #digitaleconomy

[Igor @CyberIgor]

I was recently invited to @fox5dc to talk about NFT Day with @MaureenUmehFox5. We covered the basics, but here is an old post of mine from way back in the day when the entire #NFT craze was going full-tilt.
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What are you buying when you pay for an NFT?

It seems lots of folks aren't all that clear, potentially including the ones doing the buying. Without getting too far into the technical weeds, you are paying to have a transaction permanently recorded in a public ledger. Anyone can look at it to verify that transaction. In case of NFTs, that transaction establishes your "ownership" of a digital asset.

In essence, you're buying a receipt to show others how much you spent to "own" a digital artwork. Ah, but yes, but of course, we're "redefining the concept of ownership," you see. Uh-huh.

When you buy a Ferrari as a status symbol/signal, at least you get to drive it. NFTs are like buying the title to the Ferrari that everybody else gets to drive, then reminding them it's yours every time they drive it.

You're not even renting them the Ferrari. You're just standing on the corner watching them drive it as you point at it and yell, "Hey, everybody, that's my car they're driving, I have the title right here!"

No intrinsic economic value is conveyed by your "ownership" interest. So, what are you "buying?" Bragging rights? A ticket on the latest iteration of the meme-stock crazy train?

Hence, the thinking that this is all a digital tulip mania cum money laundering Ponzi scheme. Which it increasingly looks to be.

Now, who wants to buy some limited edition Bored Igor NFTs? Only 1ETH or 680,539 $IGOR coins "while supplies last!"

Supplies of gullible cryptobros, that is.

#NFT #cryptocurrency

[Igor @CyberIgor]

The votes are in ;-)

[Igor @CyberIgor]

Learn about the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) and how it can help you understand your risk posture as a collection of known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns. While everyone seems to fear the next emergent zero-day bug and subsequent exploitation,…https://t.co/ZWZC8VXWHe

[Igor @CyberIgor]

The cybersecurity industry sure loves to sound cool, casually borrowing terminology from military and intelligence domains: "asymmetrical warfare" this and "threat intelligence" that, plus all the sundry acronyms to boot. Here's another term our industry…https://t.co/yXAFV3zmUS

[Igor @CyberIgor]

Oh, Faceb-- ahem, Meta-- I mean, Threads! The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite EU's massive $1.3B fine for privacy violations, Meta still finds it hard to shake off its inherent bias for vacuuming up any user data it can get its ha…https://t.co/LHOP7h2fiz

[Igor @CyberIgor]

As @Gleb_Tsipursky points out in his excellent Fortune article: "Many CEOs are clinging to the false belief that the office is the secret sauce to productivity. It’s as if they think the office is a productivity vending machine: Insert employees, receive…https://t.co/mX1iAuvqDR

[Igor @CyberIgor]

The admonishing to providers to only collect what they must is a nice thought, but the truth is most businesses, regardless of industry, consider themselves to be in the "data business," collecting anything they can legally (and sometimes not) get their h…https://t.co/mfjZmc6fUC

[Igor @CyberIgor]

For all the armchair experts out there feeling the urgent need to share their opinions: https://t.co/8XtE7cEiop

[Igor @CyberIgor]

Security professionals tend to frame threat models in terms of specific threat actors, internal or external, and attack patterns aka techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs). Risk professionals, at least those operating at the macro level, must abstract…https://t.co/cM9crmieoE

[Igor @CyberIgor]

US government's TikTok ban now extends beyond just government-issued mobile devices but contractors' personally owned ones. Another reminder of the complexity of #CyberSecurity threats and the fact it''s not just about app data - i…https://t.co/sFCBCZSNqN https://t.co/tBuqnzQFjy

[Igor @CyberIgor]

At first glance, this story represents major achievement: China develops an indigenous narrowbody commercial aircraft platform. Don't be fooled.

The achievements it actually represents are in the field of industrial espionage on the part of China, and th…https://t.co/WdihyOP3lL

[Igor @CyberIgor]

CL0P ransomware continues to make headlines, with good reason: the scale of breaches attributed to it continues to grow. If you haven't familiarized yourself with the IOCs and TTPs your threat hunting and incident response teams should be tracking, do so…https://t.co/Lbv1cqduzR

[Igor @CyberIgor]

A precedent set: A ransomware attack, among other factors, led to the closing of a community hospital, leaving patients without a local ER and OB service.

The convergence of cyber and physical has long been here, especially in the world of OT and ICS. Th…https://t.co/g1jCb6i62r

[Igor @CyberIgor]

Microsoft OneDrive suffers a worldwide outage as Russian-affiliated hacktivists claim credit. https://t.co/NyLhGS78wN

[Igor @CyberIgor]

@MarcoCiappelli thank you for a thoughtful discussion and the opportunity to share my views with your audience. As you point out, cybersecurity affects us all now, permeating every facet of our global digital society. Beyond just the obvious technology in…https://t.co/Pw6DpOJTyh