Share this with your IT buddies. This is bad.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

A screenshot of the book "Submerged" on Amazon, with so far one rating of five stars.

The first rating of my new novel is up on Amazon. And it's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-ha... #booksky

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #286 - Sommar 2025 📣 Sommar 2025 inleds med champagne!
BSides Ume recap. Security Fest recap. Planer för SEC-T, BlackHat, Defcon. Andra sommar planer? Lite kul ISC^2 CPE diskussioner också, hett ämne i sommarsolen!
49:36 BSides Ume 2025 Länkar:
BSides Ume 2025 (10-11 June...

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #285 - Ostrukturerat V.27 📣 Operation Deep Sentinel, Påskägg, BankID, CrowdStrike, ASUS API, ASUS SSH, Azure
54:23 Archetyp 00:00:49 Europol Operation Deep Sentinel slår mot Archetyp, en handelsplats på “darknet”.
Europol: Europe-wide takedown hits longest-standing dark web...

”Avsändaren är viktig” => flyttar nålen mot gammel-media igen - iaf de medier som fortfarande har förtroendekapital kvar.

https://xkcd.com/2030/

Just du lär redan känna till det, men jag vill ändå påpeka att det finns naturligtvis en xkcd om det (precis som om det mesta).

The US essentially immediately removed all the guardrails. Decided the wealthy should be responsible for re-distributing their own wealth, made it legal for them to buy politicians and the media. Basically straight speed-ran the collapse of capitalism, then were shocked everything went to shit. 4/4

Oh, I liked this one too today: malware with comments and string variables with AI prompts to camouflage from scanners using AI.

https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/malware-tells-ai-to-ignore-it

#genai #malware

Security Fest 2025 - Day 2 YouTube video by Security Fest

Here are the slides/resources from our #SecurityFest talk on "Modernizing Incident Response Using Techniques that Scale"

Talk: www.youtube.com/live/Znl7TBF...

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #284 - Attack Paths 📣 Attack Paths och verktyg för att jobba med dem!
01:02:17 Attack Path Vad är “Attack Path”?
Primärt:
Resan från Initial Access (TTP) Till att hela företaget står och brinner, t.ex. Impact (TTP) eller Exfiltration (TTP). Sekundärt:
Kanske även...

The new Mario Kart World game on Switch 2 is reported to have a secret Max Verstappen like character, Maxio.

Players will be able to win by unleashing Maxio’s uncontrolled anger without any respect for the regulations or other drivers whilst using his ‘Race director’ powerup.

Let’s go! New name, still focusing on runtime security😄

#securityfest

John Wilander on the stage

@wilander.bsky.social keynote on hacker fiction at #securityfest

The start of securityfest. Johan and Jesper on stage

It’s 9:00 #SecurityFest

@t0xodile.com

Audience and presenter in a conference setting

Thomas Stacey presenting ”The Single Packet Shovel” at OWASP Gothenburg hosted by @assuredab.bsky.social

I’m having way too much fun writing about Bluetooth.

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #283 - Ostrukturerat V.22 📣 TeleMessage/Signalgate, DOGE/Infostealer, Hangul, ASUS, Airborn, VM-escape, Intel BPRC, Unify Protect, sudo-rs!
01:12:48 Incident: TeleMessage 00:03:28 USA använder Signal-klonen TeleMessage, utvecklat i Israel under “Israel-US Binational...

YouTube video by Rick Astley Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #282 - Transatlantiska haverier 📣 Handelskrig, EU US-exit, CVE, CISA, DNSSEC, Schrems, ICANN, IANA, …
01:03:01 Hur funkar Säkerhet när transatlantiska relationerna bryter samman? När EU behöver dra sig ur amerikanska moln, hur påverkar det säkerhet på lång och kort sikt. När...

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities “One way you can tell is it’s always such a nice report,” founder tells Ars.

"A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time,"

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Cover of SUBMERGED: A hacker thriller

What happens when a hacker receives a message that his lost love may still be alive? Find out in SUBMERGED, the latest #hardscifi release from John Wilander. #scifi #novel #bookrelease #BookSky

https://oxlk.io/VT8c

This exchange is so very telling.

Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:

"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, the Electronic F...

Now is the time to stand up against the Trump administration as it tries to bully the cybersecurity community by targeting Chris Krebs. Sign on to our open letter:

www.eff.org/press/releas...

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #281 - Ostrukturerat V.18 📣 CVE, CISA kaos, 4chan ghostscript hack, captcha self-exec, HPE RMI, Erlang OTP, ondregelfil, TLS 47 dagar, Curl säker C-kod.
01:02:36 Plugs Vi promotar random kul vagt relaterat till säkerhet:
Hack GBGay 2025, May 17th 2025, LGBTQ+ Security Fest -...

"No One Seems to Want to Leave Assured" - Mattias Jidhage, IT Security Architect Learn how Assured has built a unique company culture that keeps employees long-term. Mattias Jidhage, one of the founders, shares the company's values and his personal journey.

Assured's culture values expertise, openness, and a desire to make a difference. Mattias, co-founder, shares his thoughts on how our culture has kept our team strong and loyal.
- "It’s a privilege to have extremely competent people just a keyboard away"
Read: www.assured.se/careers/no-o...
#security

📣 Säkerhetspodcasten #280 - Privacy online 📣 Privacy online - hot och möjligheter. Vad ska man tänka på för att hålla sig anonym? Går det att vara anonym online? Betalningar, säkra meddelanden, etc? Pitfalls i OPSEC. Vart är vi på väg i övervakningen? För och nackdelar med anonymitet.
01:06:51...

This industry has become obsessed with ohdayz and I get it, they are mysterious and magical and super. But you rarely use them. You don’t need to. A 7 year old bug suffices in most situations

Honestly subscribe to this right now. Brilliant episode dudes!!!