Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 11

LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 04:22:27 EDT LibreOffice

Learn to code! Boost your C++ skills! And have fun :-) Our next programming workshop is coming up tomorrow, on 25 April – watch a video to learn about C++ features, then join experienced developers for a chat: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/04/24/next-c-workshop-linked-lists-stack-classes-pqs-and-heaps-25-april-at-1800-utc/

In conversation Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 04:22:27 EDT from fosstodon.org permalink Repeated by michelamarie
Max "Hot PAM Startup" Eddy (maxeddy@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 11:31:13 EDT Max "Hot PAM Startup" Eddy

DNS hijacking is heating up. And that's really bad.
#infosec
https://www.pcmag.com/news/367852/hackers-are-messing-with-the-webs-phone-book-for-espionag
In conversation Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 11:31:13 EDT from infosec.exchange permalink Repeated by michelamarie
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1. Hackers Are Messing With the 'Web's Phone Book' For Espionage
  
  from PCMAG
  
  The suspected government-backed hackers have been infiltrating companies that run the Domain Name System, including internet service providers and web-hosting organizations, allowing them to corrupt the "phone book of the internet," security researchers warn.
infosec-handbook.eu (infosechandbook@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 23:59:32 EDT infosec-handbook.eu

Popular WordPress plugin "Social Warfare" actively exploited:
https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/wordpress-plugin-hacking.html
– last month, Social Warfare 3.5.3 was released, containing fixes for 2 security vulnerabilities (XSS, RCE)
– 37,000 WP websites out of 42,000 active sites use the outdated, vulnerable version
– update to Social Warfare 3.5.3
#wordpress #plugin #vulnerability #socialwarfare #infosec #security #cybersecurity

In conversation Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 23:59:32 EDT from mastodon.at permalink Repeated by michelamarie
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 04:43:48 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- See you at @hcs@socially.whimsic.al
@hcs What sort of position are the shower and walls in then? 😄
Maybe use a tension curtain rod? Perhaps you can find bars that use suction cups as well. I'm not sure if that's useful without knowing more about the situation. 😊

In conversation Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 04:43:48 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 04:39:51 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈

"The only way to rein in big tech is to treat them as a public service"
"The drive for profit is behind many of the ills of #Google, #Facebook et al. #Unions and public ownership are the only way to solve this"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/23/big-tech-google-facebook-unions-public-ownership
#bigtech #monopoly #oligopoly #economics
In conversation Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 04:39:51 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
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1. The only way to rein in big tech is to treat them as a public service | Nick Srnicek
  
  from the Guardian
  
  The drive for profit is behind many of the ills of Google, Facebook et al. Unions and public ownership are the only way to solve this, says academic Nick Srnicek
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 17:47:17 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈

Sickening: "#US threatens to veto #UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/us-un-resolution-rape-weapon-of-war-veto
#equality #womensrights #humanrights
In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 17:47:17 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
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1. US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say
  
  from the Guardian
  
  Exclusive: US warns it will reject measure over language on sexual health in latest example of hardline abortion stance
Greta Thunberg (gretathunberg@botsin.space)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 14:53:06 EDT Greta Thunberg
- Greta Thunberg
RT @gretathunberg
Happy #EarthDay !
This is what’s needed to stay below 1,5°C of warming.
Note that this doesn’t include the aspect of equity, feedback loops or additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution.
Sorry to bother but it’s time to act.

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 14:53:06 EDT from botsin.space permalink Repeated by michelamarie
infosec-handbook.eu (infosechandbook@mastodon.at)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 03:19:51 EDT infosec-handbook.eu

Steve Gibson on HTML pings:
"Imperva research has uncovered a DDoS attack […] to perform distributed denial of services attacks […]. In one attack, which peaked at 7500 requests per second, a total of 70 million requests were generated from approximately 4,000 IP address over the course of 4 hours."
See: https://grc.com/sn/SN-710-Notes.pdf
So, HTML pings (which are there for many years) are not only bad for privacy but also for security.
#html5 #ping #tracking #security #stevegibson #securitynow

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 03:19:51 EDT from mastodon.at permalink Repeated by michelamarie
Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 (nextcloud@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 04:25:40 EDT Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Centralized tech platforms are "handmaidens to authoritarianism"
- Carole Cadwalladr, who exposed the illegal facebook ads around #brexit
Too much power in the hands of just a few tech platforms threatens democracy! #decentralization
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 04:25:40 EDT from mastodon.xyz permalink Repeated by michelamarie
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 03:18:18 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
@machi Your comment is #transphobic and hateful.
#transphobia #homophobia #lgbtq #ignorance #hate #bigotry

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 03:18:18 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:29:12 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
@machi I suggest you educate yourself on biology. Do so, and it seems you will be quite surprised by how it really works.

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:29:12 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:27:16 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
- Paula
@machi @paulakreuzer In fact, such variation is normal and harmless. Such was Paula's entire point.
People don't come with bugs, but hate and ignorance certainly are flaws anyone should be ashamed of.

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:27:16 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:24:26 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
@machi Your comment is #transphobic and hateful.
#transphobia #homophobia #lgbtq #ignorance #hate #bigotry

In conversation Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:24:26 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
See you at @hcs@socially.whimsic.al (hcs@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 19:13:42 EDT See you at @hcs@socially.whimsic.al

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_galante_how_to_exploit_democracy?language=en

Galante posited that the simplest way to take down a democracy is to turn its most powerful asset, the open minds of citizens, into a vulnerability.

"You need to get people in democracies to start questioning the system, to make it occur to them that their institutions are failing them, that the country they knew is in freefall," she said. "To do that, you need to infiltrate the information spheres of these democracies."

Galante noted that for a long time, the general public was more focused on the content of the hacked DNC emails than the news that the hacks came from a known Russian intelligence unit called APT 28 (also known as Pawn Storm or Fancy Bear).

https://www.businessinsider.de/cybersecurity-expert-reflexive-control-2016-election-2017-4?r=US&IR=T
In conversation Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 19:13:42 EDT from pleroma.site permalink Repeated by michelamarie
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1. Laura Galante: How (and why) Russia hacked the US election
  
  By Laura Galante from TED
2. Cybersecurity expert: Russian strategy of 'reflexive control' exploited our brains in the 2016 election
  
  from Business Insider Deutschland
  
  Laura Galante posits that the simplest way to take down a democracy is to take its most powerful asset, the open minds of citizens.
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 20:13:45 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
@machi Well, #gender itself is very much a hormonal and psychological phenomenon, among other factors, for everyone. That does not mean gender is not a spectrum.
Are you saying that you have not heard of non-binary gender expressions and identities, or that you are aware of them and believe them to be illegitimate?
Wikipedia has a good article explaining these concepts (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer). Bill Nye also has an excellent episode on gender in his Netflix show. #lgbtq

In conversation Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 20:13:45 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 14:08:24 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Machi
@machi Ah, but the world we live in is not a black and white one.
Gender -- like sexuality, like neurodiversity -- is a spectrum. Some people are in between, gender-fluid, or even neither.
Even if a lot of people don't identify themselves this way, many express themselves in non-binary presentations.

In conversation Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 14:08:24 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
infosec-handbook.eu (infosechandbook@mastodon.at)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 00:32:56 EDT infosec-handbook.eu

HTML5 ping tracking – Firefox :firefox: will enable it by default:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firefox-to-enable-hyperlink-ping-tracking-by-default/
– HTML5 ping attributes can be used to track people if they click a link (<a href=… ping=…>) by sending POST requests to an arbitrary amount of hosts
– tracking is possible without any JavaScript, or Cookies
– Steve Gibson talked about it in Security Now 709: https://mastodon.at/@infosechandbook/101899819296611698
– ping is enabled in Chrome, Opera, Edge, Safari by default
#html5 #ping #tracking #firefox #mozilla
In conversation Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 00:32:56 EDT from mastodon.at permalink Repeated by michelamarie
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  New status by infosechandbook
  
  By infosec-handbook.eu from mastodon.at
switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 07:16:15 EDT switching.social

The web browser Brave is marketed as a privacy-friendly ad-free alternative, but that's pretty disingenuous.
Brave exists not to protect privacy, but to make money from selling ads.
Brave is a commercial company funded by venture capital. Its business model is selling advertising and cryptocurrency investment.
One of Brave's owners is Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Thiel is also the head of Palantir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies) and on the board of Facebook.
I do not recommend using Brave.
#Brave

In conversation Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 07:16:15 EDT from mastodon.at permalink Repeated by michelamarie
Jeff Alyanak (jeffalyanak@social.rights.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 21:29:18 EDT Jeff Alyanak

Mozilla WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/
In conversation Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 21:29:18 EDT from social.rights.ninja permalink Repeated by michelamarie
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1. Introducing Mozilla WebThings
  
  By Ben Francis from Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
  
  Introducing Mozilla WebThings
Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 17:44:51 EDT Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈
- Misty
@oolongstains Ya. Strange. They were so cheap! Oh, well. They can be had for like $65 online elsewhere. So that's cheap enough. I'm thinking of getting something like that for when my nephew is over.
There's some other neat retro consoles around the same price that look official as well -- Genesis, Atari. Hmm.

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