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Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#91

I suspect this leak was made by the author themselves and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN. I don't have hard evidence to back this up but if you read the Wikipedia article about them, it's pretty easy to put two and two together.

4chan blocks Tor and VPNs

You cannot block Tor and VPNs. You can block known Tor and VPN ranges.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#93

This page reminds me of the old web. I kind of miss it, auto-playing MIDI songs and custom cursors and all. I'll take that over having to wade through Reddit 12 times out of 10.

You should check out the game Hypnospace Outlaw, which is set basically in a geocities-forum hybrid environment. It's basically a love letter to this old very personal internet.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#94

This page reminds me of the old web. I kind of miss it, auto-playing MIDI songs and custom cursors and all. I'll take that over having to wade through Reddit 12 times out of 10.

They were born in 1999, so it's more like what a new generation's impression of what the old web was like.

Live journal-esque.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#96
post #88

I had to check the article to understand how it is notable for a 4chan user to also be a business owner. They're using "owned" in leet speak sense, infiltrated security.

The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#97
> which makes it all so much more ironic how completely they have been hacked.

Nope, not really. It just takes one mistake and you're pwned. Imagine giving the intern a small project, you're losing your head due to your main project, no time to supervise. Boom.

/e: Or imagine an update in one of your libs/apps. In order to not to be hacked you need to make everything right. In order to hack you just need to find one mistake. Well, kinda, but you know what I mean

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#98

I suspect this leak was made by the author themselves and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN. I don't have hard evidence to back this up but if you read the Wikipedia article about them, it's pretty easy to put two and two together.

The readme of the leak contains "meow :3", and the author's website is strongly cat-themed. Doesn't prove anything, but an interesting coincidence.

>hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she) and i am gay, mostly for girls, and i'm a tiny kitten :3

Kind of seals it. I admire their brazenness.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#99
post #96
post #88

I had to check the article to understand how it is notable for a 4chan user to also be a business owner. They're using "owned" in leet speak sense, infiltrated security.

The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.

I've seen owned plenty of times. "Owned a box" like that

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#100
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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 who have convinced their boss that GitHub downtime means they should create their own shoddy self-hosted CI platform.
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