It has been just three days since my story about the FBI investigating a likely breach at idscan.net that resulted in 153M drivers license scans being sold on the Internet. And already there are at least four class action lawsuits that have been filed in response.
I can't believe The Register ran my quote, lol - kudos.
An open secret amongst security researchers is most cybersecurity products are crap at cybersecurity.
From VPN products being one of the top causes of ransomware group entry, ../.. path traversal bugs, EDR products which brick PCs and are trival to bypass and exploit etc.. It's a wild world out there. Maybe instead of huffing their own frontier AI farts they should make more secure security products.
Obvious point - browser makers (hi Google and Microsoft) should have this stuff built in. They literally sit at the first layer and have done nothing about it.
Both companies have huge cybersecurity businesses with threat intel and incident response, and have financial incentives to not take action.
ClickFix makes a majority of real world cyber incidents I see nowadays. From ESET's 2025 and 2026 reports, too:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@james_inthe_box/117212679611330078
uBlock Origin (the ad blocker) does a really good job at blocking ClickFix attacks (where user is encouraged to paste commands into Run box). They added support in July and have been refining rules.
The US government has taken the Xbox, Nintendo and Sega logos and made them into a campaign website called https://arcade.gov, where you play video games to deport people.
One is a horde mode game where the hordes are immigants.
I continue to be amazed that this community exists unspoiled by whatever spoiled all other social media platforms.
Everytime I have need to know something someone here takes the time to nudge me in the right direction.
No matter the topic or the ask.
Mastodonians are generous, kind, loving and down right smart.
I know a lot about somethings and nearly nothing about other things but because we have friends here the answers to those other things are just a toot away.
Summer and I watched the sky get beautiful for just a minute so we could have something to give back to our friends who give us so much.
Today’s poem is called ‘Bags’.
