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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.

But what's the trap here? Checking who downloads the file? I don't see how they can get any actionable info out of this

1. post link to jenkins job in a 4chan thread relating to something nefarious

2. see who clicks it

3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan

Something like that.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#13

Who makes their Jenkins instance world accessible!

Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.

Do not attribute to NSA conspiracy what can more simply be explained by the company being fucking stupid and not caring about walking the walk of infosec

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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post #5

Who makes their Jenkins instance world accessible!

Who still uses Jenkins? It's an abomination of an obsolete system that is just a pain to use, manage, maintain, setup, etc. while there are much better, more featured, easier to use and maintain alternatives out there. And it has been like this for close to ten years now . It should have been ripped out in favour of either the "native" CI/CD (e.g. GitLab CI if GitLab is used for VCS, GitHub Actions if GitHub, etc.) o…

People doing embedded testing use Jenkins still. Not that I would, but some people do.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.

Do not attribute to NSA conspiracy what can more simply be explained by the company being fucking stupid and not caring about walking the walk of infosec

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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#20
post #5

Who makes their Jenkins instance world accessible!

Who still uses Jenkins? It's an abomination of an obsolete system that is just a pain to use, manage, maintain, setup, etc. while there are much better, more featured, easier to use and maintain alternatives out there. And it has been like this for close to ten years now . It should have been ripped out in favour of either the "native" CI/CD (e.g. GitLab CI if GitLab is used for VCS, GitHub Actions if GitHub, etc.) o…

jenkins is old and crusty, but it works and works well. if the UI for a build tool looks too fancy, my faith in it drops to 0 almost immediately.
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