jad7r

Cyberattacks move at machine speed. Security operations were never meant to fight them alone. Adversaries move in minutes. Alerts arrive in thousands. That gap is exactly why we built NightBeacon. Read more: binarydefense.com/press/binary-d…

@Jhaddix Seatec astronomy.

What would you do if you weren't in security? I think I'd organize esports for youth. Create community. Help kids.

@JackRhysider Caffeinated

While being the most optimistic as you can, describe what 2025 is going to be like for you in a single word. Mine: prolific 🔨

@blackroomsec Dalle-3 interpreting your descriptions

Ok so we do actually have drones here in NY and in my neighborhood as well as many other towns where people I know saw them last night and tonight. We tracked a few over our neighborhood late last night and tonight. I didn't take video or pics because there is no point . I have a potato for a camera and it's night. There were 10 of them. Red, green flashing lights, white light bar in the middle that pulsates vertically in one direction at times. I believe that may be it's method of taking pictures but I'm no drone expert. It just doesn't happen all the time and that came to mind. Our governor, Hochul, has confirmed she wants them dealt with here on X. I'm not of the same mind. I say we leave them alone for a variety of reasons but safety being chief among them. This is why I'll die first during the invasion, btw. I want to study the damn things and make friends. I even waved at one and my landlord almost tackled me. He's alarmed by this. I'm not. My observations thus far: They travel in packs of three. One I call the Firefly. It flies quickly to a point and stops for around 10 minutes then moves to another point and does the same thing. It flies the highest of the three. There is no pattern to it's movements. It just does what it does. The second I call the Wanderer. It flies midway between the two and flies in a wide circular arc around the other two on the edges. Steady pace. The third and final one in each "squadron" flies the lowest and is only around two hundred feet above ground. This I call the Seeker. It flies on an angle, tilted, and is the slowest. We observed it going one way, stopping, changing direction and flying back over where it just was at times. Its light bar pulsates the brightest and reminds me of the light patterns of the alien ships in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. No music or aliens though. They are large, SUV size. Quiet but you can hear a fanlike sound. It isn't grating, though, more like a smooth hum. That's what I saw. They aren't posing a threat right now. I don't think attacking them is wise. I don't think these are hobbyists as they are almost certainly millions of dollars in value and thus out of reach for a hobby. Could they be bad? Maybe but there are no military installations where I am so that being a reason is doubtful. I believe in understanding a threat before I act on it otherwise I could miss important context. I'm also a nobody and not in a position TO act on it. I pay taxes to the people who should be dealing with them but what I don't want to see is a heavy handed response because if that is what the drone operators are hoping will happen, you're playing right into their hands. You don't show your cards and if you're going to hit them, you make sure they never see you coming. Now with that said, goodnight. ☺️♥️

@jnsully9090 Love the 6 fingers on the hands

Call me maybe

@blackroomsec I actually don’t like the remakes as much. I like the vintage movies I grew up with, Three days of the Condor, EigerSanction, etc But have been happy with the books the new authors are making. I.S. Berry’s The Peacock and the Sparrow was a good audio book listen on Spotify.

@jad7r Kids will be kids :D When was there a Day of the Jackal remake?!!!!

I have caught the annual Thanksgiving Creeping Crud. Zpack, that powdery orange drink that stings the back of your throat and several hours of nonstop horror movies until I fall into a coma. Tell me fun stories or what you're hacking, reading or watching. I will respond when I am conscious.

@blackroomsec Remake this year. Eddie Redmane is the jackal youtu.be/shsIx-ZVL0E?si…

@blackroomsec And they used to have a kind of metal tube with a cut out at the bottom. Like some sort of Apple Pie dog whistle, shooting out pies. I always wondered how many pies are in there and how often to they get replaced.

🤣 can confirm

@lintile An XFCE box I called Xubaru

What’s the host name of your favorite host you’ve ever owned? Mine is homestar.

@JBizzle703 My Blockbuster was above a WholeFoods and TacoDelMar, and next to a Starbucks. Ona Friday, I could easily spend 2 hours in that complex.

Walking around Blockbuster for an hour trying to figure out which movies to get for the weekend

@ManasH4rsh The Gibson

What everyone is hacking on these days?

Top charge 75%. Look like I gotta replace the battery on this old guy

@SwiftOnSecurity “SIR! TURN YOUR KEY!”

My partner in the biological control station at the catgirl research facility after they break containment

@RickGivens My acupuncturist called it his "cologne"

Haven’t turned it on in 3 months. Let’s see if the OG still boots

@davepl1968 oh my gosh, it's a long time. I forgot all about NTStress.

How we did this in the old days: When I was on Windows, this was the type of thing that greeted you every morning. Every. Single. Morning. You see, we all had a secondary "debug" PC, and each night we'd run NTStress on all of them, and all the lab machines. NTStress would run a gauntlet of harsh tests on the latest daily Windows build. If a component crashed overnight, you'd get an email with a link to a text debugger (really more of a fancy monitor) and a call stack. It was then your job to either diagnose it from the call stack or connect to the debugger and figure out what crashed and why, then open a bug (or fix it). Or if you were lame or unlucky, you could say "bad symbols, can't debug, reboot". I hated that. For those new to it, a dump like this can be a bit opaque. But what you're looking at is a piece of code in csagen1 that has tried to de-reference through a null pointer (or more accurately, a non-zero BS address of x9C). And so it crashed, and given how deep the call stack is into csagen, at that point you'd call the developer responsible for csagen and give them the remote so they could look at it. The problem in this case is that csagen isn't a Windows component at all, it's the Crowdstrike driver. My current understanding is that the driver itself passed WHQL and is signed, but that it can download p-code and execute THAT, and that the p-code isn't signed (by Microsoft, at least). Not to belabor the point, but Windows is no different than Linux or Mac in this regard - if you install a third party driver into Ring0 of your system and it access violates, the only difference is the color of your screen when the system goes down (it's Pink on my Mac).

@LisaForteUK "work hack": write your to do list in a notebook. forget about it. then 5 months later try to decipher your chicken scratch handwriting.

Nailed it

@elchefe Velocity is like voltage, it depends on your reference points.

What if I told you that velocity isn't really important?

@blackroomsec and you forgot to run nc on the receiver.

You're not a *real* hacker until you pop a shell but don't notice it for twenty minutes because it's buried behind ten terminal windows and you just didn't think it was necessary to use tmux. Again.