The report, list of 43,083 blocked domains, raw DNS measurements, and code, are released publicly. dnsblocks.in
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The report, list of 43,083 blocked domains, raw DNS measurements, and code, are released publicly. dnsblocks.in
Except for terrorism-related content, there is little consensus among ISPs on which domains to block.
MTNL’s consumer blocklist appears to derive from filtering policies meant for government offices. Services such as Telegram, Dropbox, Discord, and even Slack, are blocked.
Airtel, the second-largest ISP, is blocking an entire top-level-domain (.yokohama), likely due to a regex misconfiguration. This is unprecedented. The TLD currently has around 5,000 domains, all blocked.
Highlights: 43,083 domains blocked in India using DNS filtering, though this number likely represents a lower bound, owing to methodological and protocol limitations.
Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
NEW: Cybersecurity experts, who work with human rights defenders and journalists, agree that Apple is doing the right thing by sending notifications to victims of mercenary spyware — and at the same time refusing to forensically analyze the devices.
“These notifications have been a game changer."
The @phrack.org 72 CFP horny emojipasta has hit the chats
Poor quality scan of a black and white image from a newspaper from March of 1990 called The Vindicator, a photo of a man with receding hair and a bushy beard and moustache who may be handcuffed. Caption reads "Joseph Popp is led from federal court in Cleveland. The suburban Cleveland man us accused of distributing computer disks with a virus that locked up machines in England and Africa."
It took quite a while hunting through newspaper archives, but this is what Joseph Popp actually looked like when he was arrested. Weird that someone considered the grandfather of ransomware is so poorly documented. Sources online get the date of his death wrong & the spelling of his middle name too.
Holy crap
White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese
www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/p...
first name + .forsale 🫨
I found in 2019 that DMs were soft deleted, you could even fetch both deleted DMs and DMs exchanged with deactivated accounts from the Twitter API and the account archive. www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18...
I wrote a series of blogs (that I’ll be adding to as I go) that document times in the #history of #hacking that journalists found themselves becoming part of the story that they were writing about #hackers. I labeled the blogs “Hackers & Reporters”.
This is your reminder that DMs here are _not encrypted_. They're not even really part of ATProto.
It's on the roadmap, but that's not the case now. DMs are centralized and unencrypted. Behave accordingly.
I know this is in the Drop I just posted, but y'all really need to try out ATFile — github.com/electricduck...
It lets you upload & download arbitrary files to Bluesky's Blob storage (or any ATptodo PDS).
The Blobs don't show up in your timeline, they just "exist".
Store your MP3 collection!
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come for the malware, stay for the posts
NEW: The U.S. government has announced charges against five alleged hackers who targeted several companies stealing millions of dollars in crypto, and corporate data.
DOJ says the hackers are part of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime group.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/u...
as a gamer ive eliminated thousands of moo deng like creatures for their various parts . Ive completed countless quests using their pain
was just inviting people over!
It’s legal in the United States under the Truth in Caller ID Act, 2009, in certain circumstances. It’s unlawful when done with the intent of defrauding others. The rationale behind allowing it is that some businesses might want to advertise their pay-per-minute or toll-free number when they call.
what video? :)
Ha! I wouldn’t have thought, but that is great. They seem active too!
And yes. They’re currently relying on reports from subscribers, which could indicate a lack of adequate automated detection at the telecom operator level.
Thanks for reading!
What is being done about caller ID spoofing in India? My piece for the Text and Context section in The Hindu today.
This project now catalogues over 10,000 websites known to be blocked on the ACT Fibernet network. 4,226 new hostnames were added since the last update in June. github.com/qurbat/block...
BharOS was touted as an indigenously developed secure and private mobile operating system. But is it? My piece for The News Minute from today. www.thenewsminute.com/news/what-bh...
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition requesting for the source code of Electronic Voting Machines to be made public. The court stated that publishing the source code would make EVMs vulnerable. This line of reasoning is fallacious and ill-informed. m.thewire.in/article/law/...
You can create a post with an arbitrary date and time from the past if you call the Bluesky post creation API directly. bsky.app/profile/sain...
It turns out that you can pass an arbitrary datetime value for the 'createdAt' parameter when creating a new post. I've linked a post of mine below with a datetime value of 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z. The datetime value appears to have been offset to January 1, 1970, 5:30 AM, Indian Standard Time.