SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

I make stupid jokes, talk systems security, + , write Scifi, sysadmin, & use Oxford commas. Sprezzatura.

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  1. Retweeted
    27 Dec 2014

    Some of you asked why I thought love could be on the electromagnetic spectrum. Because you can measure it in hurts.

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  2. Retweeted
    43 minutes ago

    I think deserves a huge round of applause on this find:

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    43 minutes ago

    Information on the CPU vulnerability / KAISR / KPTI issues is now live: . Amazing job, Google!

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  4. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    Step 1. Prepare phishing bait

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  5. 3 hours ago

    If I'm calm, you're calm.

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  6. Retweeted
    3 hours ago
    Replying to

    have you seen this suggesting minimal perf impact on CPUs with Process-Context Identifier? to help with the calming

    The question on everyone's minds: Does MacOS fix the Intel Issue? Why yes, yes it does. Say hello to the "Double Map" since 10.13.2 -- and with some surprises in 10.13.3 (under Developer NDA so can't talk/show you). cc
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    4 hours ago

    Kidding aside, Read: Read: Read (thread): Read (thread): Don't panic; and anybody who tries to tell you how this is going to end, today, is selling you something.

    : We submitted to and got it rejected. We can just assume that it lacked practical relevance or had no relevant security impact.
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  8. 4 hours ago

    Abilities like identifying re-packed admin utilities, or alerting on Word creating a sub-process. Interesting.

    A windows service to detect and block malicious processes based on Yara rules by -> Sounds interesting
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    Jan 2

    Taking the concept in 's article to a fun extreme. This hides messages within other messages by converting them into binary data, and then converting the binary data into zero-width characters.

    Zero-Width Characters (and other avenues for text fingerprinting):
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  10. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Well I guess the good news is that if we all die in a nuclear fireball we won't have to worry about this CPU bug

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  11. 5 hours ago

    Fingerprinting the source of documents by inserting combinations of zero-width characters |

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    22 Jan 2016

    IT'S COLD MY FEET ARE CHILLY IF I SITS, MY BUTT FREEZES I AM UNHAPPY (posted with permission from )

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    8 hours ago

    Speculation over. Intel bug has been reproduced with a PoC.

    Bingo!
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  14. 17 hours ago

    This is the nerdiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life, and it keeps getting nerdier and more obscure the longer you watch it.

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  15. 18 hours ago

    Under communism we’d all be running NetBurst on our phones.

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  16. 19 hours ago

    Feel free to link me to a source that handles this, I don’t know what this dilemma is called. If you’re busy/occupied, no worries.

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    20 hours ago

    Likewise the NHTSA: 80% reduction in traffic fatalities per 100k since Unsafe at Any Speed! Between these two organizations, we know more about failure modes than any other source besides touching a hot stove after Mama told us not to.

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    Work the NTSB has done on analyzing failures, especially on human-machine interface design, has changed the world forever with its corpus.
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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    Why did the chef bring a measuring cup to his criminal trial for stealing a gallon of milk? Because it would be four the quarts to decide.

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  19. 21 hours ago

    Now, you may ask, “How could a button launch a nuclear war? Don’t you have to say where to target, what delivery method, and number of weapons?” See, this is where Liberals and Deep State Obstructionists show how disconnected they are from Real America, where people “Git Er Done”

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  20. 21 hours ago

    This is why Obama really failed to connect with audiences in the 2nd season. He never teleported down to the planet or shot a terrorist in the head. Obama appointed other people to important story roles, which made everyone forget him! Sad!

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  21. 22 hours ago

    In your story, suggesting that the leader of a massive organization isn’t directly connected to all pivotal events “on the ground” needlessly expands the narrative scope and number of characters.

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