ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

The LockBit ransomware gang has released a free decryptor for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), saying one of its members violated rules by attacking the healthcare organization.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-apologizes-gives-sickkids-hospital-free-decryptor/

Hey, you - yes you, the non-cybersecurity person who’s following me on the ‘Don because of social justice or geekdom or being very bored - have you considered attending or submitting a talk to a local hacker conference?

You don’t have to be a cybersecurity expert or professional to do it. There are often talks on everything from technology ethics to radio hobbies, electronics projects to lock picking and criminal psychology. Hackers encompass a huge and cool nerdy space of hobbies and tangential interests from the philosophical to counter culture. We want to learn about lots of stuff related to why people do intriguing or bad things with technology.

Check out your local or regional community BSides here: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage - they’re free or cheap and a lot of fun. You don’t have to be a Mr Robot hacker.

#cybersecurity #hacking

Trying for more self-control in the new year? 🎆Here's what psychological research has to say:
- Want to get fit? Start by walking around the block, not running 5 miles. Achieve just enough to stay motivated
- Instead of cutting ALL carbs or sugar out of your diet, give up just one indulgence per day
- Realize that little acts of self-control in one area will improve your self-control in other areas

https://theconversation.com/research-on-how-self-control-works-could-help-you-stick-with-new-years-resolutions-88365

#psychology #NewYearsResolutions #Fitness #LifeHacks

@patrickcmiller hear, hear!

As a shameless self-plug, here’s a webinar I ran in November for the folks at the IEEE and IoTSec Australia on all things cyber insurance.

My remarks above are based in large part on what our wonderful panel had to say.
https://ieeestandards.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/ieeestandards/recording/79a989bd408b103bb79e005056811812/playback?rcdKey=4832534b000000053d018d7ae704c58f69086368a453be3b15bc9c149bbbb8eb66a74fe31459099c&timeStamp=1672347450319&reviewId=431454742

January 1st: Happy Birthday to everyone who works in #InfoSec! 😂

RIP 2022 (2022–2022)

Hungover in your 20’s: ugh so thirsty

Hungover 30’s and beyond: if this isn’t Ebola it’s what killed the dinosaurs

I can tell there isn’t a lot of folks in APAC time zones in my network here by the lack of “Happy New Year”s in the home feed

@rysiek I have a goal to move my internet habits back about 20 years. I'm gonna build a home page with a list of links of things I think are cool and worth looking at on a regular basis.

Maybe even put up a blinking "under construction" sign

Right now, Russian cruise missles are over almost every region of Ukraine.

2022 has been one horrible year for me as well...too many struggles and not enough wins. I sincerely hope 2023 brings some much-needed happiness to your life.♥️

@stux Admins of Mastodon instances should ensure their legitimate emails and being properly DKIM signed, then publish a DMARC record with a reject policy in DNS to prevent #phishing emails from spoofing their email domain in the from address.

I wrote a blog post on how DMARC works a while back.

https://seanthegeek.net/459/demystifying-dmarc/

#infosec #informationsecurity #cybersecurity #mastodon #adminsofmastodon #phishing #spoofing #dkim #dmarc #email #security

Elon Musk let Andrew Tate back on Twitter and he got himself arrested

Elon let Kanye West back on Twitter and he destroyed his own career overnight

Who had “Elon doing the Lord’s work” on their 2022 Bingo card? 🤣

Kid: "Dad what's leather made from?"
Dad: "Hide".
Kid: "What???"
Dad: "Hide... a cow's outside".
Kid: "I'm not afraid of a cow...

🤣🤣🤣

#puns #alberta #canada

Years ago I was having a really, really hard time at a job, because something very bad had happened that I don't want to talk about (it was over ten years ago). But many of you have probably been there, something has gone terribly wrong at work, but you still need to make a living so you can't just quit and walk away. You have to stay, for a while at least. That's what was happening to me at the time, it took a few months to find a new job, but I couldn't quit, I would lose my pension if I did.

My team could tell I was sad and not myself, but no one said anything. What can you say when your boss is obviously down, but not talking about it? Well, one of my team members said he had something really important to show me, and I needed to come to his office. He was usually a pretty serious person (compared to the rest of us, who were pretty silly on the regular), and we got along really well. He told me he that the very important thing was that he hadn't seen my smile in weeks, and he missed it. Then he said he knew how to give me my smile back.

He pushed back his chair in his tiny shared cubicle, stood up, pressed "play" on the song 'Happy', and then this middle aged man started DANCING. Dancing in our open-concept office, to loud music, in the middle of the day! He was dancing with so much joy, so much energy, so much silliness! I couldn't help myself, after a couple seconds I started dancing too. We danced the entire song, twirling, jumping and wiggling, in his tiny office, with everyone around us probably wondering what was going on. Once the song was done he said "There! I see the smile. It is back. Things are okay again. Thank you, that's all I needed." As though it as ME who had helped HIM.

I don't think I will ever forget that day. I always try to be that person for others if I can. Showing that you care, and that the person might being going through a hard time, but people still care about them.

Not everyone had a great holiday this year. If you see someone down, this might be your chance to give someone their smile back. <3

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

TIL that bash >= 5.1 has 32-bit (unsigned) high-quality pseudorandom numbers in $SRANDOM. Woot!

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

The right time to point out that your wife is still wearing her slippers is at home, not when you get to the restaurant. I know this now.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to post a reply video on Twitter and go to Romanian prison