Stefan Frei
@stefanfrei.bsky.social
Cyber security expert, pentester, speaker & tech enthusiast. Tame complexity 4 security. Alum RWRI-13, @Accenture, @Swisscom, @Secunia, NSS Labs, ISS X-Force https://techzoom.net
Did you know that before LLMs, people sometimes actively sought "knowledge" and turned to so-called "books"? If you want a sense of how our ancestors lived, "The Secret Life of Circuits" is shipping in just a few weeks: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/?z ToC & sample chapter included.
The Secret Life of Circuits
The Secret Life of Circuits
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🧵 “Buy now, pay later.” The first travel credit card debuted in 1934(*) when American Airlines introduced the Air Travel Card. The card contained a unique number tied to each customer's account – just like modern-day credit cards. 📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...
After a light show, each drone flies itself back to an exact spot in its charging case, guided by GPS/RTK coordinates loaded before takeoff. No manual handling for thousands of units.
PSA: delete old DNS records you're not using. I had an old subdomain still pointed to DigitalOcean from some dead project. Apparently when the IP got reused, a hacker got it, and was able to use it to publish content on my subdomain to steal SEO. They were even able to set up Google Search Console.
ProbeScope really nicely helped me monitor downtime during updates/reboots probescope.net #Monitoring #Uptime
Im Internet verbreitet sich derzeit ein Screenshot eines Beitrags, wonach einige Kommandeure der russischen „Armee“ KI in ihren Berichten über den Vormarsch der Truppen einsetzen sollen; bisher gab es jedoch noch keine entsprechenden Beispiele. Das hat sich gestern geändert. /2
Job listings are now hiring for the ability to challenge AI-generated code. When generating code is free, the premium skill is spotting the subtle ways machine output breaks.
Updated breach: Another 131k email addresses provided by Europol were added to the 4th wave of Operation Endgame today. 36% of the new corpus was already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Opera...
Have I Been Pwned: Operation Endgame 4.0 Data Breach
On 18 June 2026, the latest phase of Operation Endgame targeted the SocGholish malware operation, a prolific malware distribution network used to compromise systems and facilitate further cybercrime. ...
haveibeenpwned.com
Während meiner Auszeit werde ich nur meinen Thread mit den Gesichtern der „Ukrainischen Infanterie“ weiter führen. Dies aus tiefstem Respekt diesen Frauen und Männern gegenüber. Denn über diese Frauen und Männer sprach heute niemand. Dabei geht es um sie. ☝️
Bunkerhunter@bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 3w ago/474 Sie sind die ZSU und die „Ukrainische Infanterie“ 😔
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological
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Russian mobile fire group training goes wrong while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun developed for a Mi-24 helicopter mount (Full version, no watermarks)
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 3w agoRussian mobile fire group training goes wrong while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun originally built for Mi-24 helicopters.
According to the Kremlin, Europe’s economy has supposedly been collapsing every year since 2022. According to confirmed data, Russia is facing export restrictions, bank reserve increases, growing interest rates, domestic shortages, and export ban discussions.
Ukraine has "turned off" Crimea, and has Russia stuck between defending Crimea or defending itself. China just lobbed an ICBM into the South Pacific. My weekly update is now available. mickryan.substack.com/p/crimeas-sw...
Crimea's Switch Off, Ankara’s Outcomes, Russia’s Black Sea Shipping Apocalypse and Beijing's Pacific Signal. The Big Five, 12 July
Trump: "Would you go to Moscow (to meet Putin)?"
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Before you trust the feedback, put a dummy file into the pull request with an obvious, glaring syntax bug. If the model gives you a glowing review and misses the deliberate flaw, you know it did not read the code.
Microsoft Global Device Identifier fingers Scattered Spider suspect
Microsoft Global Device Identifier fingers Scattered Spider suspect
Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable
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Fox News wäre so ein Kandidat, wo das auch notwendig wäre… 🤷♂️
Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4w ago🇭🇺📺 Hungary’s state propaganda media went off air as Péter Magyar’s government appointed temporary leadership. Orbán-era propagandists were fired, and M1, the main news channel, is now airing an apology for lying for 15 years. Simply beautiful. (Translated with Google Lens.)
Das #Bundesheer erhält ab dem 4. Quartal 2026 modernisierte 35-mm-Zwillingsfliegerabwehrkanonen. Auf dem Geschütz wird kein Soldat mehr sitzen, der Schuss wird von einem Container ausgelöst. Ab 2027 werden die Skyranger geliefert; Fliegerabwehrgeschütze auf einem Pandur-Radpanzer.
Con season: the year's best research hits the stage — and some of it gets a legal threat instead of a thank-you. Facing legal action for good-faith research? The SRLDF funds legal defense: grants@srldf.org / srldf.org w/ @kurtopsahl.bsky.social @infosecjen.bsky.social @harleygeiger.bsky.social
SRLDF’s first grant was to Poland-based ethical hacking group Dragon Sector, to help it obtain counsel to deal with legal threats the group encountered after researching the security of train software. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.
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Last month, SRLDF gave a grant to help cover legal expenses for three University of Malta students arrested after responsibly disclosing serious vulnerabilities in a student scheduling app. cdn.prod.website-files.com/660ab0d2b373...
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Das Luftkommando West mit einer Reportage einer Skynex-Feuereinheit (FE) des 223. Flugabwehrraketenregiments. Auf das Konto der FE gehen bisher 36 Shahed Drohnen und 2 Marschflugkörper Kh-100/101) Der FE Chef lobt ausdrücklich die Zuverlässigkeit des Systems.
Military history offers few case studies as instructive as they are absurd. In 1932, the Army deployed against an emu population in Western Australia. It failed. Big brained, well-armed soldiers were beaten by flightless birds with brains the size of a walnut. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-emu-wa...
The Emu War: A Case Study in How Not to Fight a Learning Enemy
What a failed military campaign against Australian emus can teach today's military leaders about retaining professional excellence, adaptation and the discipline of matching means to ends.
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THE TWELVE RULES OF FASCISM: I’ve simplified the explanations down to the basics. Think about each one and also extrapolate - think about each rule and you will have seen some version of it in use by Putin, Trump, Farage, Le Pen, Wilders, Fico, Orban etc etc.
The interface matters most: zackproser.com/blog/the-in...
The Interface Matters Most
You have about ten seconds to wow your user and convince them you're already solving their problem. The model, the stack, the architecture — none of it matters if the door is wrong. Time-to-value is the moat now.
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Achtet darauf, wer euch in den kommenden Stunden Panikmeldungen präsentiert. Vergleicht Meldungen die ihr lest mit dem was Syrsky gesagt hat. Danach überlegt euch, wem ihr so folgt. ☝️😏
