Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights.
I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.
Kevin Beaumont<p>Pinning this: if you DM me, I can’t see it, sorry - I have DMs disabled, they get yeeted into the abyss with the Star Wars Holiday Special.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Lol, an hour after going public about their review situation, Bethesda finally gave Eurogamer a review copy 🙄 <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-and-bethesda-starfield" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurogamer.net/eurogamer-and-be</span><span class="invisible">thesda-starfield</span></a></p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Normal people who see the Starfield trailer: I may or may not play that. </p><p>Me: I’ve purchased the collectors edition, ordered about 4 other versions to see if any turned up early, built a new gaming PC, got a gaming laptop, got Starfield stickers, got a new monitor, booked time off work, read a book about sailing alone around the world referenced in the trailer. </p><p>I am not normal.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Just asked my girlfriend to describe me. </p><p>She shouted KAMIKAZE! in a Worms voice. </p><p>She knows me well.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Pleased to see National Cyber Force and FBI joining the Starfield Ceasefire initiative by nuking Qakbot in advance. 🫡</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Found the runway.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Qakbot = ransomware entry. Everybody calls it banking trojan, but it really wasn't for a loooong time. </p><p>It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there).</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Qakbot tango down. Thank you to everybody who worked on this. <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-partners-dismantle-qakbot-infrastructure-in-multinational-cyber-takedown" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-partn</span><span class="invisible">ers-dismantle-qakbot-infrastructure-in-multinational-cyber-takedown</span></a></p>
Kevin Beaumont<p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/GossiAirways" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GossiAirways</span></a> first night flight on the new monitor.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Bethesda haven't provided Eurogamer, a big outlet, with a Starfield review copy. They have to Digital Foundry - with the requirement it isn't shared with Eurogamer. <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-and-bethesda-starfield" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurogamer.net/eurogamer-and-be</span><span class="invisible">thesda-starfield</span></a></p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>btw - one bit of misinformation I've seen online. There's a TON of posts and reviews for this monitor saying DisplayPort 1.4 can only do 60fps in 8K ultra widescreen - I can't find a single one that says otherwise. </p><p>Here's my RTX 4090 happily doing 7680x2160 at 120hz in HDR, and The Last of Us running (~80fps average at full res in Ultra), Mastodon will downsize the image and compress.</p><p>Also, I realise this post is super privileged.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>ANNOUNCEMENT: all hacking paused from Friday until the end of September so we can play Starfield. Please let everybody know.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>15gb <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/Starfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Starfield</span></a> patch out, nothing groundbreaking. </p><p>Does confirm ROG Ally and Steam Deck compatibility.. but points out both devices are well below minimum spec so you’re in potato mode. </p><p>Patch notes: <a href="https://insider-gaming.com/details-on-first-starfield-early-access-patch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insider-gaming.com/details-on-</span><span class="invisible">first-starfield-early-access-patch/</span></a></p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>I upgraded my crazy 32:9 super widescreen monitor to an even more crazy larger 32:9 one with 8K resolution. </p><p>Starfield is gonna shit a brick when it sees this thing - 7680x2160 resolution.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Lol I shouldn’t toot about anything Starfield related.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>One thing I've learnt from <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/GossiAirways" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GossiAirways</span></a> is a new found respect for pilots of older aircraft. </p><p>Some of these are an absolute deathtrap - just crashed one as I pressed a button on the cockpit that actually turned out to be pilot's door release button.</p>
InfoSec about to be suspended again
- 11%BGP
- 48%DNS
- 41%Failed change
· 850 people · Closed
Kevin Beaumont<p>A reminder that lockdown mode on iPhone and iPad is excellent in my experience, doesn’t break much and is good step to enable for high risk individuals. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212650" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">support.apple.com/en-gb/HT2126</span><span class="invisible">50</span></a></p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@tomwarren" class="u-url mention">@<span>tomwarren</span></a></span> playing Destiny and Windows 11 prompt him to change his search engine to Bing. I’m getting these beg prompts in games too - had one in Skyrim.</p><p>Maybe we should start a GoFundMe for the trillion dollar company with record share price.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>Good news, we can all retire! </p><p>“Darktrace’s Cyber AI Loop prevents, detects, responds, and heals from cyber-attacks, all at once, at all times, everywhere an organization touches data and people, whether that’s outside on the attack surface or inside the organization.”</p>
Elon turned up at a VALORANT video game conference. Just saw a video of it, when people realised he was there he got mass boo’d 
PSA re #Starfield as Bethesda haven't set expectations with this well - you cannot land and walk around the entire planet in one, it's not No Man's Sky.
You can set a landing spot anywhere, then there's invisible walls around your ship - a 2km x 2km tile. You explore around your ship. You can move landing spot around by taking off and landing somewhere else.
It's still a really big area and not a problem at all IMHO. But there's going to be a fanbase meltdown about it I suspect.
#GossiAirways successful* landing.
* skidded off the runway and nearly crashed into a wind turbine.
Upgraded toot.io to the latest beta to test the new search feature.
The search is opt-in and users can enable it in the privacy and reach tab to have the posts findable.
Currently indexing 40,663,353 rows with ETA 7 hours. Lets see how this turns out.
#mastoadmin
#GossiAirways from Manchester Barton to somewhere in Wales (need to find somewhere soon as running out of daylight).
I installed Winamp. In 2023, it includes an "NFT library"
Back in December 2022, #Rackspace got hit with ransomware on their Hosted Exchange, via exploitation of ProxyNotShell - as I reported at the time.
Rackspace have so far spent north of $10m on incident response. This excludes ongoing legal and professional services costs.
Outside of the $10m there are other costs listed. I think it's safe to say the Microsoft Exchange incident cost Rackspace... a lot - they list it as a primary factor in decrease in revenue. https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/rackspace-expenses-ransomware-attack-18331049.php
There's an open world Avatar game coming out in December, featuring a huge world, first person, go anywhere freedom.
I'm really curious about it as there's a lot going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtGGzRQDq4I
If you want to do some AV evasion with Powerpoint, encrypt your doc with the password /01Hannes Ruescher/01 
Here's an interactive demo (non-malicious code) on roughly what they're doing, except threat actor delivers Update.js to execute SocGholish. https://jsfiddle.net/pYpqW/
