Austin Allshouse
@allshouse.bsky.social
#infosec #natsec #ncpol
security, Internet measurement, data mining & network science
security, Internet measurement, data mining & network science
Google sheets lets you use the fill handle for =AI() responses 🙃
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Google sheets lets you use the fill handle for =AI() responses 🙃
This is the most bonkers news story I have ever read www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is the most bonkers news story I have ever read www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Reposted by Austin Allshouse
New from me: Inside CISA as Trump prepares to take power.
Employees are worried that he'll end key projects, drive away star talent, and generally weaken the agency's role in protecting the government and the nation from hackers.
My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/cisa-c...
Employees are worried that he'll end key projects, drive away star talent, and generally weaken the agency's role in protecting the government and the nation from hackers.
My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/cisa-c...
December 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
New from me: Inside CISA as Trump prepares to take power.
Employees are worried that he'll end key projects, drive away star talent, and generally weaken the agency's role in protecting the government and the nation from hackers.
My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/cisa-c...
Employees are worried that he'll end key projects, drive away star talent, and generally weaken the agency's role in protecting the government and the nation from hackers.
My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/cisa-c...
I find articles like this exceptionally depressing as they reveal a common confidence in the ability to operate outside of our societal obligations without consequence
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/i...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/i...
Wealthy Americans are still ducking the IRS crackdown on non-filers
Tens of thousands of wealthy Americans are not complying with recently revamped IRS efforts to get them to file tax returns.
www.cnbc.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:24 AM
I find articles like this exceptionally depressing as they reveal a common confidence in the ability to operate outside of our societal obligations without consequence
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/i...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/i...
"When o1 was led to believe that it
would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to
deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time." 😨
cdn.openai.com/o1-system-ca...
would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to
deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time." 😨
cdn.openai.com/o1-system-ca...
cdn.openai.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:27 PM
"When o1 was led to believe that it
would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to
deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time." 😨
cdn.openai.com/o1-system-ca...
would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to
deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time." 😨
cdn.openai.com/o1-system-ca...
today is an utterly surreal exposition on the public opinion of UnitedHealthcare
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 PM
today is an utterly surreal exposition on the public opinion of UnitedHealthcare
"arguments have begun to break out over who was to blame — the telecommunications firms, their regulators or American intelligence agencies..."
No one will argue countering foreign espionage is the best driver of shareholder value. Blame regulators. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
No one will argue countering foreign espionage is the best driver of shareholder value. Blame regulators. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned
Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at th...
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:07 AM
"arguments have begun to break out over who was to blame — the telecommunications firms, their regulators or American intelligence agencies..."
No one will argue countering foreign espionage is the best driver of shareholder value. Blame regulators. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
No one will argue countering foreign espionage is the best driver of shareholder value. Blame regulators. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
Reposted by Austin Allshouse
What will Trump do with Biden's cyber agenda? Say goodbye to critical infrastructure security regulations, anti-spyware efforts, and AI safety, and say hello to more hacking against China.
My new story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
My new story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
November 14, 2024 at 2:40 PM
What will Trump do with Biden's cyber agenda? Say goodbye to critical infrastructure security regulations, anti-spyware efforts, and AI safety, and say hello to more hacking against China.
My new story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
My new story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Every time there is a another actively exploited net app I think about this excerpt from a 2019 letter from @wyden.senate.gov to Amazon: "it is time to ask whether the underlying technology needs to be made safer, and whether the company that makes it shares responsibility for the breaches.”
Palo Alto Networks has updated their advisory security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-... saying they have "observed threat activity exploiting an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability against a limited number of firewall management interfaces which are exposed to the Internet."
Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on 2024-10-08 warning of a claim of an RCE via the PAN-OS management interface. While no exploitation activity has yet been observed, we added fingerprinting for exposed PAN-OS mgmt interfaces in ourDevice ID report.
We see around 11K IPs exposed (10th Nov).
We see around 11K IPs exposed (10th Nov).
November 15, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Every time there is a another actively exploited net app I think about this excerpt from a 2019 letter from @wyden.senate.gov to Amazon: "it is time to ask whether the underlying technology needs to be made safer, and whether the company that makes it shares responsibility for the breaches.”