I just got a legitimate email from my employer regarding a recent benefits change that rolled out across the company. That email:
Came from a third party
Had an urgent call to action "Accept TODAY or forfeit!"
Linked to a foot-long url that was NOT the email domain.
I just...
“If you have a truck with balls hanging from it, and your truck wasn’t born with balls, and you put the balls on an elective process, you have a trans truck. Congratulations”
Currently going through the "Jr Pentester" set of modules at @tryhackme and learning a ton. But I 100% breezed through the networking module. It's a real confidence booster to realize you knew more than you thought you did.
Irrationally angry at onpaste="return false;" on a password input this morning. Like, why waste the electrons to actively make your UX worse for everyone?
I got a knowbe4 phish test email this afternoon.
I mean like really? Someone could probably put a log4j payload in an email header and do all sorts of nastiness but today of all days we have to make sure nobody clicks any bad links?
I mean sure I guess, it's just odd is all...
I had a moment when I was pushing to a git repo just now, where I realized that git repositories are blockchains.
Googling this reveals that this is common knowledge, if debated by many. I have no clue why this took me so long to come up with.
Anyone else get really discouraged when they look up solutions to old advent of code problems? I'm four hours deep into 2020 day 20 and have a 500 line non-working solution. I look over at Bob the Coder's impossible to parse 30 line python solution on Reddit and just feel ...ugh.
Peak tech is obsessively checking the tracking for the bespoke keyboard kit you ordered. I'm a kid at Christmas waiting for this thing. A keyboard.
I'm so old.
I'm working through my company's security training and they noted that one of the prime causes of data breaches we're "negligent insiders".
I hate that take. It isn't "negligent" to fall for well conducted social engineering.