Great talk on making your reverse shells disappear using rootkits by Asritha from the UMass Cyber Security Club at BSides CT this morning
The BSides CT conference badges are π
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Save the Date! Sept. 4 NancyOnNorwalk Democratic Primary Mayoral Debate
Join us as Democratic Primary candidates Barbara Smyth and Darlene Young answer questions and share their vision for the future of Norwalk. Mark Berns,...
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This is really tough news for the βI want to legally break the lawβ speeding crowd
www.ctpost.com/news/article...
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Norwalk Tree Alliance, Courville Nurseries launch free tree giveaway
NORWALK, Conn. β The Norwalk Tree Alliance has partnered with Courville Nurseries to give away free trees to residents in an effort to cool city streets and...
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"They [staffers in the governor's office] reported that much of the opposition came from Fairfield County residents who appeared not to have read the actual bill."
ctmirror.org/2025/08/18/c...
GitHub Copilot is useful for asking questions about a repository youβre evaluating. βWhat network requests does this package make? Show me where in the codeβ βDoes this package read any envars or configuration data?β
βMalware doesnβt go βboom!ββ in the context of NPM package malware. It may perform the stated capabilities, but carries out its objective quietly. The packages follow the trends, currently focused on Vite, MCP, and Solana. Give those packages more scrutiny.
Great talk by 6mile @ DC33
βWe always want to lose, thats the goal [β¦] we want to lose during the table top so we win during the incidentβ
βYour table top should be designed for you to fail [β¦] if your exercise is too easy or generic you risk being blindsided during an incident.β bsideslv.org/talks#9RELPE #BSidesLV
Excited to present Luminaut.org at #BSidesLV & #BlackHat Arsenal 2025! Our open-source tool helps incident responders quickly identify exposed cloud resources and scope shadow IT environments. From #AWS to #GCloud, get critical context in minutes
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Norwalk Narrows Down Locations for New Airport
NORWALK, Conn. β Residents of Norwalk may be surprised to find their city in the running for a new international airport. Funding for the project was tucked into the 2021 Bipartisan...
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Make your own Jackson Pollock style art jacksonpollock.org
Announcing Luminaut! An open-source utility for triaging exposed cloud resources from the inside-out.
Check it out at: luminaut.org
Big thanks to everyone who joined our Shmoocon talk this year!
TIL about meshtastic, a protocol supporting long range mesh communication over low cost and low power devices.
Especially useful at Shmoocon, as cell reception is terrible in the conference space.
Love the pager form factor
Thrilled to speak at Shmoocon this year! Weβll be releasing and presenting Luminaut, our open-source tool for detecting exposure of cloud resources from the inside-out to uncover PoC and shadow IT environments.
www.shmoocon.org/speakers/#sh...
Ha! Though cleaning it only takes 2 min π
TIL a damp paper towel, dipped in ash, cleans fireplace glass surprisingly well
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NORWALK, Conn. β In the coming weeks, 23,000 residents will see part or all of their medical debt cancelled, Connecticut officials announced on Monday morning at the state Capitol. The measure will erase $30 million in medical...
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A little blog post and script from Stroz Friedberg for investigating Jenkins servers:
www.aon.com/en/insights/...
github.com/strozfriedbe...
30 day public comment period is open, direct link here: www.norwalkct.gov/DocumentCent...
Excited that we were able to expand childcare availability in Norwalk!
As mentioned in the discussions, I hope this enables more parents to walk their kids to daycare and have options near where they live.
www.nancyonnorwalk.com/planning-and...
Screenshot of the current outage notice, from https://status.openai.com
OpenAI has a bit of downtime this evening: status.openai.com
While podcastaddict.com is my favorite Android podcast app, overcast.fm is easily my favorite on iOS
Anyone else feel their Spotify wrapped was a summary of the songs Spotify kept forcing into your line up?
More interesting than my Spotify wrapped, my Overcast 2024 podcast stats feat:
1. Jet Lag
2. @openargs.bsky.social
3. SANS ISC (easily #1 in num shows listened, but each one is 5m)
4. @lateralcast.com
Recently added Booked on Planning which has been delightful.
What are your top podcasts?
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Seven months to the day after the Fairfield Avenue bridge sagged and fractured under the intense heat of a gasoline-fueled fire, its replacement opened Monday carrying traffic and pedestrians over Interstate 95. βIt was a...
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