Eric Parker
@atericparker.bsky.social
Cybersecurity YouTuber (170k), security reseacher and reverse engineer.
Once streamed myself with cat ears on.
Once streamed myself with cat ears on.
TIL you can repurpose USB 3.0 cables for PCIE 1x transmission. The pin counts match (note: neither end transmits USB and you cannot use a usb port for this adapter)
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
TIL you can repurpose USB 3.0 cables for PCIE 1x transmission. The pin counts match (note: neither end transmits USB and you cannot use a usb port for this adapter)
we have dllhost at home
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
we have dllhost at home
Reposted by Eric Parker
you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
So for anyone else who has a WRX 80E sage motherboard and bought the ASUS Hyper M.2 card, to make it work you need to enable "PCIe raid mode" on the slot (even if you don't want raid). Why they couldn't just call this x4x4x4x4 bifurcation I will never understand.
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So for anyone else who has a WRX 80E sage motherboard and bought the ASUS Hyper M.2 card, to make it work you need to enable "PCIe raid mode" on the slot (even if you don't want raid). Why they couldn't just call this x4x4x4x4 bifurcation I will never understand.
old malware hit different
October 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
old malware hit different
Best possible ruling for Google, worst possible for their competitors / mozilla. Google can no longer pay for play as a default search engine, but keeps Chrome.
I don't see how mozilla survives this, unless Microsoft wants to buy that placement instead.
I don't see how mozilla survives this, unless Microsoft wants to buy that placement instead.
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Best possible ruling for Google, worst possible for their competitors / mozilla. Google can no longer pay for play as a default search engine, but keeps Chrome.
I don't see how mozilla survives this, unless Microsoft wants to buy that placement instead.
I don't see how mozilla survives this, unless Microsoft wants to buy that placement instead.
How is this even possible. Guy called the real number, somehow 12 minutes in got redirected to a scammer.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/m...
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/m...
How a man says he fell for a travel scam while rebooking a United Airlines flight
A man from Denver was rebooking a flight for a family vacation when the purchase actually went through for a scammer.
abcnews.go.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
How is this even possible. Guy called the real number, somehow 12 minutes in got redirected to a scammer.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/m...
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/m...
Am I the only one who thinks "trojan horse" more accurately refers to a method of distributing malware than a type of malware?
August 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Am I the only one who thinks "trojan horse" more accurately refers to a method of distributing malware than a type of malware?
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EFF has filed an amicus brief asking the Third Circuit to clarify that this case is about violations to policy, not hacking. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Ryanair’s CFAA Claim Against Booking.com Has Nothing To Do with
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in Ryanair v. Booking.com, applicable when someone uses
www.eff.org
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
EFF has filed an amicus brief asking the Third Circuit to clarify that this case is about violations to policy, not hacking. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Another AUR malware this time a smarter typo squat, google-chrome-stable. The real one is google-chrome but it creates a binary called google-chrome-stable, I could see someone making this mistake.
Likely the same bozo as before, who has a serious lack of opsec (more on that soon).
Likely the same bozo as before, who has a serious lack of opsec (more on that soon).
August 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Another AUR malware this time a smarter typo squat, google-chrome-stable. The real one is google-chrome but it creates a binary called google-chrome-stable, I could see someone making this mistake.
Likely the same bozo as before, who has a serious lack of opsec (more on that soon).
Likely the same bozo as before, who has a serious lack of opsec (more on that soon).
Endgame Gear has acknowledged that they shipped xred malware on their CDN, but seemingly doesn't know or doesn't wish to explain how it happened. Not a very good post mortem IMO.
www.endgamegear.com/security-upd...
www.endgamegear.com/security-upd...
July 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Endgame Gear has acknowledged that they shipped xred malware on their CDN, but seemingly doesn't know or doesn't wish to explain how it happened. Not a very good post mortem IMO.
www.endgamegear.com/security-upd...
www.endgamegear.com/security-upd...
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Found this YouTube channel that instructs users to install malware via powershell. One of the shorts has 363K views. Reported it to YouTube but no takedown so far. A good few commenters fell for it. Might be worth a video? @atericparker.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/VEYMj...
July 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Found this YouTube channel that instructs users to install malware via powershell. One of the shorts has 363K views. Reported it to YouTube but no takedown so far. A good few commenters fell for it. Might be worth a video? @atericparker.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/VEYMj...
This is actually really cool in terms of browser isolation. Neko - run a browser in a docker container.
github.com/m1k1o/neko
github.com/m1k1o/neko
GitHub - m1k1o/neko: A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC. - m1k1o/neko
github.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is actually really cool in terms of browser isolation. Neko - run a browser in a docker container.
github.com/m1k1o/neko
github.com/m1k1o/neko
Interestingly when using FFMPEG to transcode AV1 the bottleneck becomes the decoding rather than encoding. Couldn't figure out why it wouldn't use more than 8 cores, it's just bottlenecked by decoding.
June 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interestingly when using FFMPEG to transcode AV1 the bottleneck becomes the decoding rather than encoding. Couldn't figure out why it wouldn't use more than 8 cores, it's just bottlenecked by decoding.
Really not a fan of this UI change. I keep thinking I'm unsubscribed from people I watch. Clicking it prompts a membership purchase.
June 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Really not a fan of this UI change. I keep thinking I'm unsubscribed from people I watch. Clicking it prompts a membership purchase.
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I received a sticker that was such a mood for everything today
June 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a sticker that was such a mood for everything today
So does anyone know how /why KDE sometimes switches from primary monitor to screen priorities? It seems semi random.
June 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So does anyone know how /why KDE sometimes switches from primary monitor to screen priorities? It seems semi random.
New phone bot has arrived. I say "hello" and it immeditely responds goodbye.
No idea why.
No idea why.
May 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New phone bot has arrived. I say "hello" and it immeditely responds goodbye.
No idea why.
No idea why.
Jankiest "reverse shell" idea ever? While loop that irms a batch file from a webserver (that I assume tailors to the requestor IP)?
May 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Jankiest "reverse shell" idea ever? While loop that irms a batch file from a webserver (that I assume tailors to the requestor IP)?
New Virtualbox RCE due to a memory safety issue.
May 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New Virtualbox RCE due to a memory safety issue.
But think of the poor sim swappers who might not be able to get in.
May 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
But think of the poor sim swappers who might not be able to get in.