127.0.0.1

Security Engineer @atlassian, Alumni @salesforce, @domaincomau, @Macquarie_Uni | Trekking | Canyoning | #MumbaikarByHeart | #SydneySider. Views are personal

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

Absolutely echo this sentiment as I have faced all these issue with Indian banking system. Sad part is I continuously provide feedback directly to bank from past 10 years but no improvement

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

NRIs should put 0 money with Indian banks, here is why:-

1) Indian banks charge 1.5% to 3% mark ups on Forex.

Eg. if you are looking to move 100K from India to the US, they will could easily charge 1500$ just as mark up fee. That's insane.

2) For context: this is 0.01% to 0.40% in UAE. Similar is the situation in several decent banking countries.

3) On top of this -- given complexities: you don't have any legit alternatives to move large blocks of money outside regular banking systems.

Multiple other problem: currency debasement, extensive form filling, lack of sensible investment options etc.

Speak with NRIs, they will all tell you these problem.

India is a great country to retire: low cost of living etc (in non-metros). But, it is not a great place to do banking.

[Atlassian @Atlassian]

How well does Rovo know Atlassian @williamsf1 driver @carlossainz55?

We put it to the test with a rapid-fire fan Q&A. The result?

Carlos Sainz brings the heat; Rovo brings the accuracy. A legendary combo. 🤝

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

Croudsourcing reasons as to why a public trading company would not have an in-house SOC team
#cybersecurity #soc #dnr

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@vincenzo__65 @CraigHRowland @techspence @SandflySecurity Going through their website. They collect telemetry by running intermittent code over ssh

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@unraveaero If you figure out why Chinese students study in Bangladesh maybe you could get some clue

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@anton_chuvakin Spill out the secret sauce

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

in Australia, the danger of skydiving begins after landing

[Martijn Rasser @MartijnRasser]

Chinese hacker group 'Chimera' broke into chip manufacturer NXP through employee accounts...the hackers made their way to the secure servers, looking for chip designs and other company secrets. They had 2.5 years of undetected and unfettered access. @nrc
https://t.co/Cn1wMM6xXV

[Nasreddine Bencherchali @nas_bench]

Writing detection for a product is not as easy as writing detection for one single environment. It's a balancing act that most seem to not take into consideration. You go write a simple for 50+ env and you'll be surprised by the amount of "shady"/ "legitimate" stuff

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

Would businesses start following this playbook of moving services back to data center from cloud ?
#cloudtodatacenter #reducecloudbill

[Engineering @Engineering]

This has been a year full of engineering excellence that sometimes can go unnoticed. Besides all the visible changes you see on our app, here are some of the most important improvements we have made under the hood.

- Consolidated the tech stacks for For you, Following, Search, Profiles, Lists, Communities and Explore around a singular product framework.

- Completely rebuilt the For you serving and ranking systems from the ground up, resulting in a decrease 90% reduction in lines of code from 700K to 70K, a 50% decrease in our compute footprint, and an 80% increase in the throughput of posts scored per request.

- Unified the For you and video personalization and ranking models, which significantly improved video recommendation quality.

- Refactored the API middleware layer of our tech stack and in doing so simplified the architecture by removing more than 100K lines of code and thousands of unused internal endpoints and eliminating unadopted client services.

- Reduced post metadata sourcing latency by 50%, and global API timeout errors by 90%.

- Blocked bots and content scrapers at a rate +37% greater than 2022. On average, we prevent more than 1M bots signup attacks each day and we’ve reduced DM spam by 95%.

- Shutdown the Sacramento data center and re-provisioned the 5,200 racks and 148,000 servers, which generated more than $100M in annual savings. In total, we freed up 48 MW of capacity and tore down 60k lbs. of network ladder rack before re-provisioning it to other data centers.

- Optimized our usage of cloud service providers and began doing much more on-prem. This shift has reduced our monthly cloud costs by 60%. Among the changes we made was a shift of all media/blob artifacts out of the cloud, which reduced our overall cloud data storage size by 60%, and separately, we succeeded in reducing cloud data processing costs by 75%.

- Built on-prem GPU Supercompute clusters and designed, developed, and delivered 43.2Tbps of new network fabric architecture to support the clusters.

- Scaled network backbone capacity and redundancy, which resulted in $13.9M/year in savings.

- Started automated peak traffic failover tests to validate the scalability and availability of the entire platform continuously.

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

We thank @Atlassian for their partnership in investigating these active exploits. Atlassian provides further details in their security advisory. https://t.co/vSls5QGA6N

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

There should be tax penalty to all the companies who do not abide by #UNSUBSCRIBE email policy

[Dr. Anton Chuvakin @anton_chuvakin]

OK, here it is, #RSAC reflections post: https://t.co/ywdwMyOhj6

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@MichalKoczwara @SaveToBookmarks

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@markc Do last moment catchy marketing lines really work to swing votes ?
I observed people even carrying the pamphlets to booth and reading through to make decisions

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@anton_chuvakin its benefit thats when there is a shift in culture to avoid mis config in first place.

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

@anton_chuvakin A lot of CSPM are good at identifying problems but do not integrate well with an organisation’s way of remediating those problems. When a cloud mis configuration is remediated and orgs start measuring 1/n

[Christopher Peacock @SecurePeacock]

Too many organizations are in the mindset of I bought an EDR, an MSSP, and cyber insurance, so I’m good now.

[Chandra Observatory @chandraxray]

The tiny pink dot in the center of this image is a magnetar — a type of neutron star with the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe. If a magnetar was located a sixth of the way to the Moon (~64,000 km), it would wipe the data from all of the credit cards on Earth! (1/2)

[127.0.0.1 @InstinctEliever]

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late — Seymour R #programmer