Michael Fourdraine
@v0gg.bsky.social
InfoSec Practitioner, Incident Response gronk. My views are not that of my employers @ Cyber Janitorial Services
Mastadon: Vog@infosec.exchange
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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
fortune.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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The market is ready for an enterprise email service with:
1. Reasonable prices
2. Logging - all of it
3. Effective anti-malware/phishing
Without:
1. All the BS Google and MS are throwing at us
1. Reasonable prices
2. Logging - all of it
3. Effective anti-malware/phishing
Without:
1. All the BS Google and MS are throwing at us
Google just jacked up our workplace pricing overnight by 20%.
Rationale? They’re giving us Gemini for ‘free’. Can’t opt out.
Monopoly plus crap tech is a helluva thing.
Rationale? They’re giving us Gemini for ‘free’. Can’t opt out.
Monopoly plus crap tech is a helluva thing.
January 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The market is ready for an enterprise email service with:
1. Reasonable prices
2. Logging - all of it
3. Effective anti-malware/phishing
Without:
1. All the BS Google and MS are throwing at us
1. Reasonable prices
2. Logging - all of it
3. Effective anti-malware/phishing
Without:
1. All the BS Google and MS are throwing at us
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NEW: Following Salt Typhoon, the FCC has adopted outgoing chair Jessica Rosenworcel's proposal to (1) use CALEA to require telecom companies to secure their networks against unauthorized access and (2) propose cyber regulations for a broader range of firms. bit.ly/42iQYoK
January 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: Following Salt Typhoon, the FCC has adopted outgoing chair Jessica Rosenworcel's proposal to (1) use CALEA to require telecom companies to secure their networks against unauthorized access and (2) propose cyber regulations for a broader range of firms. bit.ly/42iQYoK
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1960's map of AT&T Long Lines microwave relay network. Hundreds of hardened sites were built atop mountains with massive microwave equipment, some designed to withstand a nuclear war. long-lines.net/places-route...
November 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
1960's map of AT&T Long Lines microwave relay network. Hundreds of hardened sites were built atop mountains with massive microwave equipment, some designed to withstand a nuclear war. long-lines.net/places-route...
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T-Mobile says the Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers who recently compromised its systems as part of a series of telecom breaches first hacked into some of its routers to explore ways to navigate laterally through the network.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Chinese hackers breached T-Mobile's routers to scope out network
T-Mobile says the Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers who recently compromised its systems as part of a series of telecom breaches first hacked into some of its routers to explore ways to navigate laterall...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
T-Mobile says the Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers who recently compromised its systems as part of a series of telecom breaches first hacked into some of its routers to explore ways to navigate laterally through the network.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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Reposted by Michael Fourdraine
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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In this talk, Andrey Konovalov describes how he managed to modify (over USB!!) the firmware of his ThinkPad’s webcam
And he was able to switch off the LED 😱
Now you can get your not-so-paranoid stickers back 🙈
docs.google.com/presentation...
And he was able to switch off the LED 😱
Now you can get your not-so-paranoid stickers back 🙈
docs.google.com/presentation...
2024, PoC: Lights Out: Covertly turning off the ThinkPad webcam LED indicator
Lights Out: Covertly turning off the ThinkPad webcam LED indicator Andrey Konovalov, xairy.io POC, Seoul Nov 8th, 2024
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:49 PM
In this talk, Andrey Konovalov describes how he managed to modify (over USB!!) the firmware of his ThinkPad’s webcam
And he was able to switch off the LED 😱
Now you can get your not-so-paranoid stickers back 🙈
docs.google.com/presentation...
And he was able to switch off the LED 😱
Now you can get your not-so-paranoid stickers back 🙈
docs.google.com/presentation...
Made the migration over from the decaying remains of the bird platform. Air seems breathable here.
November 11, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Made the migration over from the decaying remains of the bird platform. Air seems breathable here.