@defcon Just heard over the airport speaker, “will the person who left their alien ware laptop at security please come back and claim it” #roadtodefcon#dontforgetyourburner
10 years ago today @aaronsw took his own life after overly aggressive prosecution.
He invented internet infrastructure.
He defeated the greatest threat the Internet had ever seen.
And you probably don't know who he is.
You should.
Here’s his story 🧵
I helped a team reduce their Azure Application Insights cost from $10,000/mo down to $1,500/mo.
I spent a good week researching potential issues.
The end solution was kind of funny.
Someone forgot to turn off Azure SQL logs.
We flipped a switch, and the cost went down 85%.
Even with the famous meltdowns you know about — Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island — on the measure of mortality per unit of electricity produced, nuclear power is, overall, the safest source we have. Listen now: https://t.co/BXvb4yuM0c
The hard truth is that most orgs in the world could be hacked in the exact way Uber was just hacked bc most do not employ the numerous best practices we’re talking about here to reduce the risks we just saw in this attack. This is a learning moment for almost everyone everywhere.
We expect the updated COVID-19 boosters to be available at vaccine providers around the state late next week.
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Seeing lots of thoughts about the 30 min cap & that the tweet will be labeled as edited — those are good things. I’m still concerned about abuse of feature to cause harm: a quickly viral celeb post could change fast to a crypto phish scam and trick folks who don’t read the edits.
Mahalo to everybody who came to my @defcon talk "You're M̶u̶t̶e̶d̶ Rooted" 🙏🏽
Was stoked to talk about (& live-demo 😅) a local priv-esc vulnerability in Zoom (for macOS).
Currently there is no patch 👀😱
Slides with full details & PoC exploit:
https://t.co/viee0Yd5o2 #0day