My BSides Cape Town 2025 talk is up on YouTube. Go watch me talk about hacking drones, crashing drones and ear-wax removers all while wearing a duck cape 🤣
While you there watch some of the other awesome BSides Cape Town talks.
youtu.be/CY17U3zKNmc
#drones #hacking #bsidescapetown #rubberducks
I did a talk on "Race Conditions", at BSides Cape Town!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9edv...
My BSides Cape Town 2025 wrap-up is finally out, you can read about it all here www.linkedin.com/pulse/bsides....
Please share with your friends and help spread the word!
#bsidescapetown2025 #bsidescapetown #hackers #rubberducks
If you’re a fan of Hacker Jeopardy, check out my song DFIU on the @defcon.bsky.social soundtrack.
You can pay what you want to own (that’s right, you can actually possess the files yourself!) soundtrack and all proceeds go to the EFF.
defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/track/dfiu
Today one of my favourite hackers and biggest inspirations, @leonjza.bsky.social, is speaking at DEF CON 33!
Track 4 @ 16:30 PDT
defcon.org/html/defcon-...
If you're there, please go and support him.
If you're in a close enough timezone, please stream him live (see dctv.defcon.org)
Don’t feel bad for hiding in your hotel room for a bit - they usually have the main tracks talks streaming on hotel tvs
This is huge (imo) for retro computing C= <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...
Even if you're not into the AI hype, it's worth reading about the dangers of "MCP" servers everyone's going on about: www.cyberark.com/resources/th...
Half way through the year... not a bad time to backup a bunch of stuff if you don't already have a backup process/plan.
Ubikron
You probably know Roelof Temmingh as the man who created Maltego 17 years ago, and who has been working on the Vortimo tool for the last few years.
A few days ago he released Ubikron, a tool for tracking, tagging, and saving web investigations
www.ubikron.com
First Pewdiepie makes a Linux video, now a "maker" video - didn't see that coming youtu.be/pgeTa1PV_40
#speakerlife my @devconf.co.za talk is in a few days, but I'm drawing custom icons in Excalidraw. Obviously these are best enjoyed, in person at my talk.
#devconf2025 #rubberduck #duckhunt #retro #gaming
Thanks for all you do, and the thousands if not millions of lives you’ve made easier!
Pocket is one of my favourite apps, I use daily.
Mozilla bought them years back.
Now Mozilla is shutting them down.
Sigh.
I recreated Joey's Gibson virus from the movie Hackers and it runs on a vintage Powerbook Duo. When you launch the "virus" it makes a new post to the Bluesky bot @hacktheplanet.simone.computer
Before you ask no this is not actually a virus 😜
#hacktheplanet #retrocomputing #vintageapple
This white genocide debacle highlights another reason to be extremely cautious of AI that I don't see people talking about much--if you're getting your information from AI, your knowledge will be selectively curated by the people who control the AI
I watched a company do something dumb today.
And it went badly for them.
There is balance to the force sometimes :)
When a rock n roll photographer shoots a hacker collective.
@cultdeadcow.bsky.social
Screen cap from the final page of the summary judgement document
DEF CON legal update: Truth is a complete defense against defamation.
The Hadnagy lawsuit against us is over. Summary judgement. Dismissed, with prejudice.
You can read the judgment here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... . Stay tuned for a more detailed report.
#defcon #legalupdate
System Of A Down, Chop Suey. Hokuto Force #C64
youtu.be/6oRUCkAbPn0?...
We (@lambdafu.bsky.social & me) found a critical security vulnerability in the #Erlang/OTP SSH daemon that allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via network access on devices running Erlang/OTP SSH servers.
This vulnerability is #CVE-2025-32433, patches out now. Estimated CVSSv3 10.
You definitely know this guy’s music, even if he looks a bit different nowadays. Do you recognize him?
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone ). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."
Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
Oh, I am READY. Please be good please be good please be good
#tron #tronares
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVG...
Oracle has a serious, customer impacting security incident playing out in Oracle Classic, a cloud SaaS service they manage. They're attempting to deny it by saying there's no problem in "Oracle Cloud", which is wordplay. doublepulsar.com/oracle-attem...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnI...
Somehow.
