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Today I learned that the #WebP exploit found recently is the worst of the worst. Like log4j bad, if not worse.

Patch your stuff, everyone, it's in everything.

#infosec

LinkedIn's AI version of Clippy is getting annoying. You have to admire the casual familiarity of their user interface. Just "Enable." No "WTF is this?" button or anything useful.

Sort of reminds me of the reason behind this toot.

infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1

Go ahead. Click okay. Share every number and email anyone has ever entrusted to you. It's NBD. Everyone is doing it.

There's a club at my college. This past Saturday, we had a Squad Strike competition, and I had my first win on stream!

youtu.be/75ksYI86X1Q?t=1310

Lots of improvement from this mess from 10 months ago (particularly game 2): youtu.be/UuBcIewuIQw?t=4189

@malwaretech I'm not sure... on one hand, allowing deleting allows getting rid of troll comments etc., but it also encourages echo-chambers and trolls deleting good comments.
Maybe hiding posts instead of deleting them? Maybe they should go into a bad section like on Twitter.

I don't want to be the parent that crushes my child's dreams, but there needs to be some understanding that "Gamer" isn't a viable long term career for the VAST majority of people.

I always get a little skeptical when someone tells me they literally died.

Maybe instead of setting up a page listing them, prominently flag their business listing as engaging in fraud and lower their star count to near zero?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

So some of you might remember this post (and the subsequent demonstration on national news) of using a voice cloning tool (AI, Audio Deep Fake) by @racheltobac

Link to post: infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/

(If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Rachel is amazing.)

I'd never needed to do a similar attack before, but! I was just tasked yesterday with researching it.

Asked some friends for a turn-key solution to clone voices. Got pointed to a website. Signed up for $1 a month (first month... then it goes to $5 a month thereafter).

Pulled some audio of my mark down from a youtube interview (a podcast works great too).

Only needed a minute's worth of audio.

Uploaded it to the website for cloning.

Typed out a quick script for the voice to read.

30 seconds later, I had my cloned audio.

It was so good, that it even included natural voice inflections AND!!! verbal pauses like umm's and uhh's that matched the mark's original presentation. I can't tell the difference between the cloned voice and the original person.

Y'all... voice cloning and audio deep fakes are well past the ease of "script-kiddy" level. Anyone can do it.

#infosec #hacking #socialEngineering #scams #deepfake #AI #phishing #vishing

@evan We both believe that beings have rights and dignity. You seem to believe that there theoretically can be machines that are beings, and I don't

You know, if PCs came with embedded ​s it might be possible to actually, more or less, 'download more RAM'.

It is 1:00 AM and I am still awake. Not because of programming, though. Well, often times it is indirectly programming. I also have a cold (random)

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In my case, the issue is struggling with writing computer programs when I should be doing schoolwork. Given that I'm a Computer Science major, this interestingly means that the very thing that could theoretically be my downfall is supposed to be my second greatest success.

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In , talent is naturally being able to excel in your major, whereas wisdom is not playing videogames all the time so that you have the time to study.
A dilligent student does better than a lazy naturally skilled one.

Bodily problems can accumilate. Like many, I like my body, but it only gets older....
The expendability of your body is like the expendability of a car. You never intend for it to last forever, but you still avoid dents and even scratches. It will last longer if you treat it well, though it can suddenly get destroyed in a catastrophe.

What do you want to do to the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll

WHY IS THERE A UNIVAC PROGRAMMING MANUAL ON MY PHONE

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