The Risk of Centralized Data Control

In Animal Farm, the pigs consolidate power, leading to total control. Similarly, centralized data silos today present a significant risk: what happens if they’re compromised? Decentralization is key to reducing attack surfaces. #DataSecurity #Decentralization

Surveillance in 1984 vs. Today

In 1984, Big Brother monitors every citizen. Sound familiar? With mass data collection today, we’re under constant surveillance, from location tracking to digital footprints. How are we managing this risk? #DataPrivacy #Surveillance

I read Animal Farm and 1984 back when I was in School.
I'm embarking on reading them both again and was thinking to do a 30 day interactive posts after to explore how they mirror today's privacy, security and societal issues.

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I know there are lots of resources for this, but as a Documentationist at heart, I'd like to add my thoughts to the mix and make a central hub for others. Mainly to document my process, but I hope this can be of use to others.
silentglasses.github.io/techdocs/

Kinda like coffee can contain boiling hot water.?

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co. You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

If you use @github.com
Important to keep in mind that if you store anything there that should not be, it's there FOREVER.

#SecurityFirst #CyberSecurity #RiskManagement

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers According to Testaankoop, the Belgian equivalent of the Consumers' Association, two types of Linksys routers are sending Wi-Fi login details in plaintext

Linksys Velop mesh routers leaking your data in plain text.

Data includes your SSID, wifi password, network name in plain text and transmitted to an Amazon server.

Evolve Bank & Trust #Cybersecurity Incident is a perfect example of why more companies must put #CyberSecurity and #RiskManagement at the forefront and high on the budget. It highlights the need for vigorous #RiskAssessents.

Pretty cool. I have to ask tho. If a Smart TV is not connected to the internet, is it truly a smart TV?

And there is no mention of this anywhere in their API material:

www.godaddy.com/legal/agreem...
developer.godaddy.com/getstarted

>As part of this update, customers are now required to have 50 or more domains in their account to utilize the API.

> You need to have 10 or more domains in your account now to be able to use the DNS or Management API. Another option is to purchase our Discount Domain Club to gain access to the API again.

Time to find a new #DomainRegistrar .. #GoDaddy changed their API access to force you to pay them more money to use services like #letsencrypt or #ACME

The sad state of Dev work. If everyone is using AI, will dev jobs one day be done by AI and no longer have a need humans?

And the best part is that you don't have to buy their hardware to get the OS experience. Pop!_OS is installable on just about anything that will run GNU/Linux.

I have been using it on my Lenovo X260 and Dell XPS for years now.

Waiting for their next official release.

I've used Fedora in the past and it did not fit my style. I prefer the deb system which is why I went with Ubuntu initially but they are just going off to an entirely different universe. Pop!_OS has served me well over the years since I found them.

The Lenovo site has no Laptops running Linux, all they offer are:
- Windows 11 S Mode 64
- Windows 11 Pro 64
- Windows 11 Home 64
- Chrome OS
- Windows 11 Home 64 ARM

I guess I'm fully moving trashing #ubuntu
now. I try to keep in the loop but..

Starting with Ubuntu 22.04, all new releases of #firefox are only available to Ubuntu users through the snap package.

I was doing an update and got the popup. #PopOS install ... Go!

Shift Organize and streamline all your tabs and apps with the Shift browser.

For the #Security / #Risk folks.. Do you all have any concerns about Shift?

www.shift.com

A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable Apple's new Thunderbolt 4 USB-C cable costs a staggering $130, more than ten times the price of a generic USB-C cable. But what's the difference between Thunderbolt and USB-C? Adam is joined by electrical engineer Zach Radding to examine Lumafield's CT scans of Apple's cable as well as three non-Thunderbolt USB-C cables to understand the engineering and components that make up these cables. This video is part of a sponsored series with Lumafield. Learn more about these scans at: https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-to-head-comparison-apple-thunderbolt-amazon-basics Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable: https://app.lumafield.com/project/fedc9b09-b696-4a7f-8270-95762abd1d1d Amazon Basics USB-C cable: https://app.lumafield.com/project/a0fd9731-994a-403f-9710-a03aa2f31cc1 $5.50 USB-C cable: https://app.lumafield.com/project/f6ec539a-2775-44d1-a9e3-54a118093b69 $3.90 USB-C cable: https://app.lumafield.com/project/3c087b61-34e3-4836-9d2d-38b1f14b9bf3 How industrial CT scanning is used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eesZBRW4u0 Thanks to Zach Radding for joining us in this episode! http://buildcoolstuff.com/ Shot and edited by Joey Fameli Additional media courtesy Lumafield Music by Jinglepunks Subscribe for more videos (and click the bell for notifications): http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testedcom Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA/join Tested and Adam Savage Ts, stickers, (de) merit badges and more: https://tested-store.com About Tested: https://www.tested.com/about TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@testedcom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/testedcom/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/testedcom Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/testedcom Discord: https://www.discord.gg/tested Amazon Storefront: http://www.amazon.com/shop/adamsavagestested Intro bumper by Abe Dieckman Thanks for watching! #adamsavage #apple #usb

Did you ever wonder about USB cables and what you're paying for?

Are Your Passwords in the Green? It's the 2024 update to our Hive Systems Password Table - including using a new “most-hacked” password hash. See why our Password Table has been shown and written about on the news, published by uni...

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LIVE Blue Team with MalwareCube | SOC | Malware | AMA
by #TCMSecurity

New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.

#Windows #Microsoft are back to the old Steve Ballmer days ha? Smells like an Anti-competition/Antitrust move to me...

Microsoft is blocking users right to choose their own browsers via a Windows driver. How shady is that?

Solving Observability's Cardinality Conundrum Introduction Cardinality is a term you’ll hear over and over again if you’re looking into how to do observability. And especially if you are talking with vendors! They love this topic! A lot of people...

Really great article on #Cardinality. I had to deal with this issue all the time while I was in the Observability space. I had to write up an internal company page for Engineers, this does a great job and an be shared.

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Had a 1984 moment today...