Cognitive Security (COGSEC) refers to practices, methodologies, and efforts aimed at defending against social engineering attempts, as well as intentional and unintentional manipulations and disruptions of cognition and sensemaking.
Hacking time to recover $3m worth of lost Bitcoin.
Sounds crazy, right?
This is how two white hackers cracked an 11 year old password behind this massive fortune.. 🧁
I have been borderline harassed by @IRS_CI agents on 4-5 occasions now in the past few months with a blatant disregard for any professionalism so I have decided to now share this publicly.
They have shown up irl to old addresses, contacted personal emails using private data, and have sent mail when I have public contact methods readily available.
I have always been willing to support victims of scams with documentation needed by law enforcement to aid cases but if you overstep personal boundaries why would I want to assist you?
🚨 FYI: A lot of people are complaining about getting password resets on their iPhones. There’s a large scale phishing operation going on right now for Crypto folk. If you get this pop up DON’T ALLOW. Also, Apple will never call you.
Don’t get scammed. Stay safe.
1/ An investigation into the French dev Jolan Lacroix who recently stole $900K from the TICKER presale on Base before spending the funds on meme coins and Milady NFTs.
Why is Gary Gensler teaching a false history on Ethereum's ICO in his MIT class?
In this 🧵, I will show you that it was the CCP that invested in Ethereum in its pre-ICO days, and not Canadian VC's like Gary teaches.
In 1904, Ota Benga was abducted from Congo and transported to the United States, where he was put on display alongside monkeys.
Benga was placed in a cage with an orangutan as a lampoon on Darwinism.
Benga he was given a functional bow and arrow to protect himself from the orangutan if need be. However, he often used it on the visitors who mocked him instead.
After he was freed from the zoo, he tried to return to Africa but the outbreak of WWI stopped that from happening.
Benga sadly took his own life in 1916.