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Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

Who knew that it's possible to boot straight into UEFI setup by just running "systemctl reboot --firmware-setup"? 🤯

It makes all those times I was mashing F12 as soon as the computer started booting utterly pointless — especially after getting Linux installed.

Well, at least I know about it now.

@FiveEyeTea I read the article; so it's an ID system, but what exactly does that mean? Tied to hardware, or something software-level like HTTP?

@GrahamDowns
Here are three 1977 computers. I briefly used a TRS-80 Model I. Learned BASIC.

File:Home or Personal Computers from 1977 - Commodore PET 2001, Apple II, TRS-80 Model I, together called 'Trinity77' (edited image).jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AH

@royal @GrahamDowns Hardware like that would look so cool on my desk. I've always wanted a computer from that era. So little can do so much!

@w84death Ah, not <= 512B? I'm curious, what's your size restriction, if any?

Scoop: New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/na

For today’s pet photo, here’s my dog Nell in #Zelda #TearsoftheKingdom! Just had to edit her pic into the Hyrule Compendium lol!

#pets #dogs #dogsofmastodon #mondog

@fribbledom I have the impression that KDE is always ready to soak up new features :)

It takes good taste in simplicity to craft well a complex design.

Try out our new desktop environment, COSMIC. It’s still in alpha, so expect bugs! Reports, theming, and configuration screenshots are welcome :) s76.co/qGr4qNLt

So earlier this year I wrote about this cybercrime rapper named Punchmade Dev, who wears outlandishly gaudy and expensive stuff around his neck and croons in videos in front of stacks of cash at ATMs, talking about how to do wire fraud, cashout PayPal and Cash App accounts, etc. The story showed how this Punchmade character seems to be a 22-year-old guy in Lexington, Ky named Devon Turner who operates multiple web stores that sell apparently compromised payment cards and identity information (alongside check printing software and tutorials on....wait for it...OPSEC!).

On a hunch that maybe Punchmade's lack of opsec might have caught up with him, I checked PACER and found instead that he recently sued his bank, alleging they discriminated against him for his race over his denied request to transfer $75,000 out of his account. Incredibly, Mr. Turner signed his pro se complaint filed in a Kentucky court with the same phone number and email address that are tied to the Punchmade domain names that are selling products like "ID+ High Balance CC, ID front/back, SSN, and 7$k-10k CC, for $80"

Here's the story:
In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. That story showed how Punchmade's social media profiles promoted Punchmade-themed online stores selling bank account and payment card data. Now the Kentucky native is suing
his financial institution after it blocked a $75,000 wire transfer and froze his account, citing an active law enforcement investigation.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/cy

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