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Pete Maynard, PhD
@petermaynard.co.uk
Security Researcher - ICS - Networking // Privacy Advocate // Open-Source Enthusiast

Wales, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

www: https://petermaynard.co.uk
blog: https://not.just-paranoid.net
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
A pillar of spotted dolerite stands outside the church of St Llawddog, Cilgerran #SirBenfro / #Pembrokeshire

Dual Latin and Ogam (Ogham) inscriptions commemorate Trenegussus (or Trenagus), son of Marcus Treni, who died in the late 6th century AD

📷 Aug 2015

#StandingStoneSunday
January 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
🐱‍👤 New Linux threat: Pumakit rootkit! 🚨 Multi-component malware with dropper, memory-resident executables, kernel module & userland rootkit. Stealthy, advanced, and in the wild 🌐 Targeting critical systems 🎯

#CyberSecurity #Linux

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
New stealthy Pumakit Linux rootkit malware spotted in the wild
A new Linux rootkit malware called Pumakit has been discovered that uses stealth and advanced privilege escalation techniques to hide its presence on systems.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:39 PM
December 14, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Good work!
Platform.sh Engineering team finds auth bypass in #Go SSH package 🚀

Find out how this security vulnerability was uncovered and patched in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package 💪: brnw.ch/21wPo3F

#SecurityOps #Go #Golang
December 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
A meditative toy, visualizing Jupiter's Galilean moons:
www.bewitched.com/demo/jupiter/
Galilean Moons Timeline
A meditative visualization of Jupiter's Galilean moons
www.bewitched.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
Remember the wiper attack against KA-SAT/Viasat during Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Joe (@pylos.co) provides a great overview of this campaign. The talk also covers alignment with #Sandworm, a little-known DHCP DoS attack and risks with satellite comms for ICS/SCADA.
youtu.be/0a-qza6YSZA
Reviewing 2022 KA SAT incident & implications for distributed communication environments -Joe Slowik
YouTube video by Virus Bulletin
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
Devon Wildlife trust has just re-introduced pine Martens to SW England.

www.devonwildlifetrust.org/bringing-bac...
Bringing back pine martens | Devon Wildlife Trust
After an absence of 150 years, pine martens will return to the South West of England. This is the aim of the Two Moors Pine Marten Project.
www.devonwildlifetrust.org
December 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Tiny beer, tiny cast iron, tiny stove!
November 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
Hey new users— we’ve been trying to build a strong culture of expecting alt text. Take it from me, because I’ve heard from them: there are blind people on this app and they appreciate being included. You can also turn on a setting that prevents you from posting images without it, if you forget
November 11, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Sums up my week
March 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM
How to find an angle with no fancy tools or maths.

diy.stackexchange.com/questions/25...
January 7, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
🧪 Scientist?

🟦 New to BlueSky?

👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?

📃 Here’s a list of 200 science-related feeds and their hashtags.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky
BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...
docs.google.com
December 4, 2023 at 6:31 AM
November 29, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Is there a cat or not?
November 23, 2023 at 10:58 AM
Releasing a simple graph creator program: github.com/PMaynard/Gra...
GitHub - PMaynard/GraphLine
Contribute to PMaynard/GraphLine development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
Citizen scientists 🧪🔭 Please help us find new black holes with this amazing new app! Download to help identify new transients and to train our system. You will be a coauthor, and top classifiers will even be able to trigger follow up observations with real telescopes!

www.dbhc.nl/news/black-h...
Black Hole Finder App Live! - News | Dutch Black Hole Consortium
Black Hole Finder App
www.dbhc.nl
November 21, 2023 at 5:09 PM
A nice summary of getting an ASN and what to look for. quantum5.ca/2023/10/10/w...
November 14, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Winter camping kit.
November 10, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Pete Maynard, PhD
📝Just published a new dev blog post:

One of the core principles of atproto is simple access to public data. A user’s data is stored in a repository, which can be efficiently exported all together as a CAR file (.car).

This post describes how to export and parse a data repository.
Download and Parse Repository Exports | AT Protocol
How to download and parse repository data exports using Go.
atproto.com
November 6, 2023 at 8:13 PM
It’s getting to this time of year.
November 6, 2023 at 10:46 PM