I've been spamming resumes for entry roles. finally have a promising interview for a junior sysadmin (linux+windows) in 2 days and I've been told there's an exam at the interview. I'm a scrub and have minimal knowledge of sysadmin shit, but maybe the job is easy af. What would be the best materials to cram? CBTnuggets?
Adam Williams
>/cyb/ ftp: ftp://50.31.112.231/pub/ That is the old one, the main one is online here: ftp://collectivecomputers.org:21212/Books/Cyberpunk/
Yay, it’s back! Anyone have an answer to this question:
Michael Ross
Let's move that discussion in here rather than split the discussion.
>This is the last semester of my MPA. While I intiallly wanted to work for a governemental agency like NASA or some shit, this government shutdown is the last straw in not wanting to go work for the government on top of defunding everything I would want to work for. Parts of the .gov is not in shutdown, especially the .mil parts. You could go into defence or electronic warfare. Did you check the FAQ about this? I see a lot of new positions announced in many NATO countries.
>I mostly have a policy, research, and management background. You know, you could get a cyb sec management position on that background alone.
>I will start a Cybersecurity learning program in the IT department soon, but what technical skills and knowledge do I need to gain to get a job in the tech industry? Keep in mind that security is a fast moving field where the latest zero day will set off the alarms and you will be called in to disassemble and see how it works and then see how to fix it, pronto. Just think back on all the Spectre/Meltdown issues that seemingly are still going. So you have to ask yourself if you wish a working life like that, klaxons going off at all times.
Lucas James
Was just about to make one too lol
Chase Wright
Are you compilingOP? He has been missing for quite a while. And the job keeps growing.
Anthony Myers
downloaded a bunch of stuff right now too. Pretty nice loving the /cyb/ music playlist
Owen Parker
I am not. I just missed the general and wanted to hang out in here
>cyber sec management position on that background alone I...I could? Where do I find such positions outside of the government?
>working a life like that I'm not opposed to working in such chaos
Angel Ward
whos the ssbbw hottie
Oliver Butler
>don't smoke weed, but I don't want such intrusion on my personal life. A lot of jobs in and outside of .gov/.mil require drugs testing. A fellow student from the US told me it was crazy he couldn't get the job he wanted because of pot, yet POTUS could.
>Although electronic warfare is something I'd be interested in like hacking back, but I would have to learn how to hack first. EW is a bit specialised so all the training is on the job. If you are a contractor making the equipment you need a good degree in radio tech and microwave electronics.
>>cyber sec management position on that background alone >I...I could? Where do I find such positions outside of the government? Just apply. Better yet get an internship (if it is not too late). LinkedIn is a handy tool for that. Or start your own projects on Github/Gitlab.
>>working a life like that >I'm not opposed to working in such chaos I have been there but it is destructive to family life and work/life balance. I lived on pizza overtime food for 6 months at a time and it gets old. Now I am older and pizza reminds me of hard times. I still wonder if the management were sadists, taking immense pleasure in ordering overtime and seeing divorce rates going sky high while they had normal hours. In the end the company imploded, too late they realised that overworked people do not make good systems.
Justin Cooper
How do you guys cope with the fact that IT security is being overrun with women and trannies?
>Although electronic warfare is something I'd be interested in I forgot to add that there is also a Radio FAQ on the FTP site plus tons of military tech info. Fire up your wget and build your library.
Get a radio amateur license, that will give you a bit of insight. A few hams are ex military Morse code operators, knowing QRM from QRN.
-__- this is why I don't want to work for the government too much hypocritical bureaucracy. At least in the tech industry, even if they drug test you, you at least get paid way more and have more freedom than the feds.
I don't have those degrees, but I'm not really interested in making equipment.
Guess I'll look for EW and cyber sec management positions on LinkedIn I guess. Do you know any of the keywords and experience they're looking for? Is there any location I should be looking into like where all those jobs are or are they scattered over the US?
I'm glad that company imploded. I don't have a family, but I would like one. I would also hope to be management. I would never workers the way they treated you though.
Samuel Turner
What happened to Nackt? Jinteki is gone as well as the old libraries. Also Cyberlife is gone.
>hiring people based on gender or minority status in the most important field of IT >"who cares as long as I can get a cute trap gf?" We're doomed as a species.
pretty much disappeared into the abyss. Left the public net under vague circumstances and appeared briefly on Endchan to shit on Gamergate, the shekel vacuums that were involved in it and called the people involved with the QAnon larping charlatans and nobody's even sure it was actually her, but apparently she was right about the QAnon thing and CrippleChan being as secure and privacy based as a paper safe.
You failed to mention minority status. Furthermore, it was also you who brought up the idea of doing it for dick reasons. I have zero motivation to care about who works in what industry so long as that someone is competent and a halfway decent human being.
Jaxson Nguyen
>You failed to mention minority status Ah yes, all those diversity hire women and mentally ill trannies were hired by merit alone.
Zachary Walker
>CrippleChan being as secure and privacy based as a paper safe. Dude, like, the site is run by a known data collector.
>solar hmmm >manufacturing solar panels >disposing panels after end life aaaaand you just wasted more energy (and made more pollution) than the panel has produced in its working cycle. At current state, solar is a business, not a valid alternative. Maybe one day.
1. how safe am I to use cryptocurrencies wallets on non-botnet linux distros? (eg. ubuntu, I'm using manjaro) it's basically if you have a keylogger/spyware, your money is gone.
2. I have encrypted gore on my pc, how safe am I if police gets ahold of it? the password is a combination of 4 words, 23 letters.
Logan Walker
Man that FTP is pure dogshit. There was a time when cyberpunk fans had schwayer things to do than posting Tumblr pics and moe crap.
Evan Reyes
I'd like to get some feedback and code review (as I'm not that confident in my Python skills) for my infosec project if you guys don't mind checking it out. It's a small phishing HTTP server that can also do autofill phishing.
kek kek glows in the dark cia niggers on 4cheng is real
Adrian Taylor
Funniest thing is check the pastebin link posted. Jim's son Ron was part of the QAnon faggotry. Know what else Ron is known for? Making a literal data mining tool. Know what Jim owns? Goldwater. Guess what news source "QAnon" shilled to Hell and back? Goldwater. Honestly after the Bedanon hacks (both of them) the gigantic data breach which contained even private messages between BOs and Mods, Nackt calling people by their post IPs in real time, Freddy handing out 'troll' data to fit in with the GG crowd and the constant totally not government backed bullshit going on Jim's end of things, Cripplefaggots get whatever they deserve. Say what you want about this site but at least we don't have massive data breaches on a daily basis and the newfags complaining about the site being split between two domains obviously weren't around when it happened the first time and nothing changed. Jow Forums reigns king as always and from what I hear, Hiro's about to fuck Jim sideways in court over 2ch and possibly get that back as well. Twatter is deplatforming itself into a stockshare oblivion, Facebook is being so obnoxious and blatant even normies can't stand it anymore and Tumblr is as heroing itself as we speak. The only other site left standing is Reddit and how long's that gonna last with all the media shilling and censorship at levels only Facebook could dream of? We're on the warpath to reclaiming our rightful place as the final boss of the internet. And all we had to do was exist and not engage.
People can call us the den of beasts, underbelly of the internet and everything in between but people are starting to notice it. We're reality. We don't ignore it and close our ears. We don't cannibalize our own and when we smell shit in our own community we call it out immediately. CrippleChan flopped so horrendously because they could do that because after all they're nothing but Redditfags anyway.
We're here to stay.
Ayden Smith
>AI can see you through walls
Oh how convenient that shit comes out of nowhere after the whole Smart Home craze.
Xavier Peterson
I knew parts of this, didn't knew others. I am amazed on how little information is known about these battles raging on the cyberspace but how much they impact on the wider Internet.
Austin Watson
There's been a warfront on Cripplechan ever since the GG faggots jumped over there. Anyone notice how Jim took 2ch from Hiro? Hiro couldn't pay his server fees so Jim took the site from him. Have you ever heard of a practice like this happening? I sure as Hell haven't. When you can't pay up the fees for your domain it goes down, end of story. There is no hostile takeover and ownership does not change hands like that. The same shit happened to Cripplechan.
Same order of events too. Late 2014/2015 that site kept getting hit with DDoS attacks nonstop from the Lizard Stresser. The site was up and down constantly on a daily basis and then Jim comes out of nowhere and offers his "generosity" for a site he totally has no stake it. He offers server space to Cripplechan and the DDoSes stop instantly. A lot of people theorize that Jim and or Ron themselves were behind the attack and it was premeditated. The list of people who used the LS service got leaked because it was a skid tool that stored the emails and passwords in plaintext. Nobody ever manned up and looked through them to find out of any of Jim's or Ron's emails showed a match though. If they'd found it there the legal retribution would've been immeasurable.
(cont.) Things instantly started to warp as soon as Jim took over. Boards were deleted as well as posts about dissent towards the way the site was being handled, no background hierarchies were formed among BOs, Entire VPN blocks were banned and so were proxies for a time (Fun fact, Jim sells VPNs, who wants to bet they were allowed?) in short, shit went south fast. Jim even hard balled the cripple into breaking off his friendship with Josh. Freddy then stupidly went with Jim to Thailand and has been there since and now he knows how badly he fucked up and why. If Freddy finds his non functioning spine and mans up, Jim will leave him stranded in lady boy land with no ride home. Freddy's trapped and he knows it.
Nobody can pin point how exactly but it's a known fact that Jim has glow in the dark connections and it shows. He had an agenda with fucking over Cripplechan. He attempted it to 2ch in the same way. Isn't it odd he's only going after imageboards and fucking up their natural ecosystem? When you look at where Jim's been and what he's done, his agenda becomes transparent.
Chase Young
>>disposing panels after end life Being mainly high grade silicon it is easier to recycle than to put into land fill. Also, many solar panel silicon uses cutoffs from the semiconductor process as raw material.
*Whispers So how do you all feel about that CoMuNiSuM
Henry Garcia
>opens thread >no discord info
thank fuck for that.
Jack Sanders
>CoMuNiSuM What? The shotgun marriage between communism and consumerism? Sounds a bit like China, really.
Charles Carter
Conurism ?
Samuel Price
=== /Sec/ News Via LWN but behind paywall, nevertheless the headlines are interesting as is: >[$] A proposed API for full-memory encryption >[Kernel] Posted Jan 18, 2019 16:30 UTC (Fri) by corbet >Hardware memory encryption is, or will soon be, available on multiple generic CPUs. In its absence, data is stored — and passes between the memory chips and the processor — in the clear. Attackers may be able to access it by using hardware probes or by directly accessing the chips, which is especially problematic with persistent memory. One new memory-encryption offering is Intel's Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption (MKTME) [PDF]; AMD's equivalent is called Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). The implementation of support for this feature is in progress for the Linux kernel. Recently, Alison Schofield proposed a user-space API for MKTME, provoking a long discussion on how memory encryption should be exposed to the user, if at all.
Dominic Martinez
On a modern device like the pixel 3, how would you go about intercepting either web or app traffic? I know that DNS requests would be easy to log for web traffic analysis, but I'm curious how modern SSL is compromised when physical access is granted (without root). How does installing a CA work? I assume most applications use a pinned certificate for their authentication, but can a cert be locally compromised by faking a CA, or how the fuck does that work?
Kayden Robinson
=== /sec/ News Security, Chinese style, because 1984 was insufficiently ambitious: >This Chinese app reportedly maps nearby debtors to get you to shame them thenextweb.com/asia/2019/01/18/chinese-province-launches-an-app-to-highlight-debtors-around-you/ >This week, China Daily reported that North China’s Hebei province is putting that idea into practice in a small, but potentially damaging way: it’s highlighting debtors around you on a map displayed in a mini-app on the immensely popular WeChat platform, in an effort to shame people who haven’t cleared their dues.
And just to hammer it home: >The mini-app reportedly not only lets you know if there are debtors around you within a 500-meter radius, but also displays personal information about them, including their names, national ID numbers and why they’re on the blacklist in the first place. China Daily added that this is to “make it easier for people to whistle-blow on debtors capable of paying their debts.”
John Ortiz
Or conurbanism? Also very /cyb/
Brayden Sullivan
Coconutbashism ?
Oliver Anderson
Any updates on AEL-user ("all encompassing library")? I just checked and Google has scrubbed all previous links to this topic.
AEL-user has built up and curated a humongous library over many years where the index alone is 2 MB in size. Most likely much of that is useful for the collection on the FTP-site.
I believe he also had 55 GB of manga that I wouldn't mind looking over either.
Zachary Perez
Hackers mobsters use the system to control the untrained masses to harass people
Dominic Sanders
=== /sec/ News infosecurity-magazine.com Via Slashdot >Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security tech.slashdot.org/story/19/01/20/2344217/bug-bounties-arent-silver-bullet-for-better-security >Many organizations may find they're better off hiring pen testers and in-house security researchers directly than running bug bounty programs, according to new MIT research.
Jason Lee
On the registry of .eu domains (eurid) you can basically request a login link to be send to the email address in the whois, which gives that email address access to the transfer token for that domain.
Somehow I'm a bit hesitant to use .eu domains. If someone hacks your email address or phone he can basically transfer your domain away. That's pretty fucking insecure.
Gabriel Walker
*On the website of the registry of .eu domains
Carson Jenkins
Not to mention emails that are send in plaintext.
Lucas Hill
Don't worry, the NSA will put a hardware backdoor there.
Luke Rodriguez
More likely the backdoor is already there. We may not like this but these guys are not stupid. I must therefore assume it was their idea in the first place, so that they could control how it would be rolled out.
Gabriel Nelson
For example people don't know about IPMI, another remote controlling shit running on most computers. How much of these hardware "features" are there? We need to make a list. By the way check your running services and check this github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/SECURITY.md#medium-level-security
Christopher Allen
>Freddy then stupidly went with Jim to Thailand Why is it that absconding miscreants end up in Thailand?
Henry Lewis
Trying to figure out how Cybergoth fits into this. Litte enws but someone has made a retrospective: >THE CYBERGOTH INVASION blessedaltarzine.com/2019/01/13/the-cybergoth-invasion/ >The origins of Cybergoth (a broadly umbrella term) is a blurry and complex one. It can be argued the scene can be traced back to the early 1980s with EBM (Electronic Body Music), which is an evolution inspired from experimental bands such as Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Krupps. Front 242 built further on this over time – refining their sound with each release, with 1991’s ‘Tyranny (For You)’ album as a particular highlight. Similarly, industrial music groups such as Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly evolved and further refined their art – reaching a similar pinnacle with the critically acclaimed ‘Too Dark Park’ album in 1990, whilst Nine Inch Nails burst onto the scene with ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ in 1989. In the mid/late 1990s, Icon of Coil, Velvet Acid Christ and VNV Nation formed as a natural progression – that shared more similarities with the driving synth beats of hard house, techno, and hard trance than the industrial and EBM bands that preceded them.
Nice. It may help to split the code into separate files and import them as modules. Really helped me as i was scrolling up and down 1200 lines of code like a numpty. Good habit to get into with large projects.
Gavin Allen
>Seems Cybergoth is dead You need to frequent industrial dance parties.
Uh, I don‘t think that a lot of costumer boards have IPMI enabled. Still, if anyone isn‘t sure while reading this - better check it.
Ryan Anderson
Intel Management Engine, AMD also has some shady shit in thei CPUs. Take a board+cpu on which you can disable ME (Yeah board, not all boards support disabling it, also risk of bricking your board is there).
Nicholas Morgan
And this is why my main server being refurbished uses PA-RISC. It might be slow but it predates the backdoors and as a bonus is such a small attack surface there are hardly any zero day exploits for them.
I wanted a VAX but they are too big and power hungry.
Isaac Jenkins
Are there any books one can read to learn about malware development? I'm writting a metamorphic engine and a book or something would help not to make big mistakes.
Oliver Martinez
After outerheaven.space fell off the net the question was if also the guy behind had also done the same. Seems he is alive, twittering intensely on #Cyberpunk is now twitter.com/search?q=#CyberpunkisNow&src=tyah
Joseph Gutierrez
are the FTP servers honeypots
Zachary Turner
Probably not, it is not widely announced and the number of files are mostly growing.
Kayden Morales
Sure is him?
Robert Cox
I remember him too, he posted some good resources in several places, and I guess he's just setting an "outer layer" for the outer haven with the twitter stuff.
Blake Torres
Actually this thread might belong here too. It's less of a cybersecurity discussion and more of a rant about Facebook but have at it!
Wyatt Lee
I cannot be certain but I am quite confident.
Adam Roberts
Cyberpunk is pushing 40 and reminiscing is here - though the conclusion is that we never left Cyberpunk, instead the world caught up with fiction.
>Future Tense Newsletter: Beyond Cyberpunk slate.com/technology/2019/01/future-tense-newsletter-beyond-cyberpunk.html >Within science fiction today, we’ve got a veritable feast of subgenres and microgenres. No longer, for example, do we just have cyberpunk: There’s now steampunk, biopunk, nanopunk, stonepunk, clockpunk, rococopunk, raypunk, nowpunk, atompunk, mannerpunk, salvagepunk, Trumppunk, solarpunk, sharkpunk, and even hopepunk. But, as Lee Konstantinou argues, despite the myriad new offerings, the niches seem to still be caught up on the groundbreaking ideas that the original cyberpunk movement of the 1980s defined. He examines the origins of cyberpunk and how, as much as we’d like to think we’re living in the future, “if we’re still drawn to cyberpunk, that might be because 2019 is far more like 1982 than we’d care to admit.”
That is about right.
Also: >Something Is Broken in Our Science Fiction slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html >Yet I have come to suspect these punk derivatives signal something more than the usual merry-go-round of pop culture. These punks indicate that something is broken in our science fiction. Indeed, even when they reject it, these new subgenres often repeat the same gestures as cyberpunk, discover the same facts about the world, and tell the same story. Our hacker hero (or his magic-wielding counterpart) faces a huge system of power, overcomes long odds, and finally makes the world marginally better—but not so much better that the author can’t write a sequel. The 1980s have, in a sense, never ended; they seem as if they might never end.
There is no escape.
John Reed
Cyberpunk is the ultimate pill.
Bentley Diaz
So what, just roll over and die and let the world go to shit?
Tyler Roberts
Nope. A new wave will be needed. And in spite of doomsayers, life is mostly getting better around the world. That just doesn't sell newspapers so more bad news it is.
So things are looking up but the mood stays grim. And that is why we need Comfypunk and Solarpunk.
I'll be back in 6 hours or so, let's keep the thread alive, for more comfiness.
>Like many young people in China, the 24-year-old recent college graduate knew little about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. He had never heard of China’s most famous dissident, Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died in custody two years ago.
>Now, after training, he knows what to look for — and what to block. He spends his hours scanning online content on behalf of Chinese media companies looking for anything that will provoke the government’s wrath. He knows how to spot code words that obliquely refer to Chinese leaders and scandals, or the memes that touch on subjects the Chinese government doesn’t want people to read about.
>Mr. Li, who still has traces of youthful acne on his face, takes his job seriously. “It helps cleanse the online environment,” he said.
>>helps cleanse the online environment
Jesus fucking CHRIST. What kind of brainwashing does it take to hold such beliefs even after being shown the uncensored history?
