Have you heard? Biggest databreach in history just a few weeks ago!
Be sure to keep yourself safe by looking into measures like multi-factor authentication and/or password managers!
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Declaring Metapendence – Threads
Last week, I wrote about alternatives to Meta’s WhatsApp. While WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, the many privacy issues with both Meta in general and WhatsApp in particular provide many reasons to stay away or move away from WhatsApp. I, myself, have never used WhatsApp, but I want to be as thorough as possible in providing solutions for the Meta problem.
This week, we take a look at Threads, the micro blogging service which Meta released in 2023 to take advantage of the mass exodus […]
https://medi-nerd.com/2025/06/24/declaring-metapendence-threads/
Every Tuesday at 11:00am ET, join the pgEdge team for #TechTuesday — all about mastering Distributed #PostgreSQL high availability, and edge-ready database solutions. Whether you’re scaling apps or seeking zero downtime, these sessions are packed with hands-on insights, real-world demos, and live Q&A with the experts.
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Web Monetization makes it easier than ever to offer new payment solutions, and getting started is simple:
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Announcement: Beta Launch of Web Monetization!
Web Monetization is here to offer more content support for owners and publishers, while consumers can access content on their own terms.
Today, we announce the beta release of the Web Monetization extension, allowing for seamless micropayments powered by Interledger Wallets.
Read all the details in our blog: https://interledger.org/news/announcing-interledger-foundations-web-monetization-extension-beta-release
Tech Tuesday 
February 25, 2025 – Progress Report
#Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 56 #100DaysOfCode Day 56
Daily Reading:
freeCodeCamp news – 1 article Daily.dev – 1 article
Vim: Practiced plugin configurations (30 min)
Trello: Updated the board
freeCodeCamp: Full Stack Developer Program
Small steps every day lead to big results. Keep coding! 
#TechTuesday
This #Lemmy post https://programming.dev/post/22672085 links to the recording of the talk I gave earlier in the year, about how #dotNet #dotNetMAUI and other #programmers #developers can get the most out of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse in general. Show to people you want to come here, or watch yourself if you feel like you could learn more about it.
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Fraud Alert: Beware the SIM Swap Scam.
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ICYMI did you know that you can use your #mouse #ScrollWheel to #scroll horizontally? All you have to do is hold down the shift-key at the same time. I saw (and boosted) a post about this recently, and it's life-changing - so much easier than trying to grab the thin and almost invisible scroll-bar! (thanks Microsoft for making everything harder to use due to your never-ending commitment to giving us changes we didn't want)
Tech News: Google Calendar finally offers dark mode.
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Solar energy is sustainable, reduces carbon footprints, and is an important step towards a greener future. This new factory, bringing jobs and training to Albuquerque, was make possible by the Inflation Reduction Act. #DemocratsDeliver #TechTuesday #GreenTech #RenewableEnergy #Solar
New solar cell manufacturing factory will bring 900 jobs to Albuquerque:
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@ErikvanStraten sorry for the late reply, I've been quite busy and your post quite long.
You made a lot of valid points. For a #LutraKnows post - which usually aims to explore a single term - most of them probably go too deep, which is why we skipped over them in the original post. But I think it might be an interesting topic for #TechTuesday. I have suggested it as a topic to the college in charge.
Attackers typically use masquerading to either trick users into running a malicious file, confuse defenders, or attempt to blend into a target environment. Today, we will take a look at the MITRE TTP "Masquerading: Right-to-Left Override" (T1036.002) and will see, how an attacker can use this feature to their advantage.
First things first: What is "Right-to-Left Override" (RTLO) anyway? As we all know, there are languages that are written from left to right and others that are written from right to left. In computers, the RTLO Unicode character U+202E makes this possible. This character can be used to force a right-to-left direction for text. As an example, let's look at the string "LutraSecurity" and see what happens when we insert the RTLO character in the middle: "Lutra[U+202E]Security" (where [U+202E] is the RTLO character). This string will then be displayed as "LutraytiruceS", because the RTLO character reverts everything after it, in this case the "Security".
So what can an attacker do with this? In filenames, they can abuse RTLO to conceal the true extension of a file. For example, let's say you find the following file somewhere on a network drive:
Salaries-And-Benefits-Annexe.pdf
You know that a PDF is mostly harmless, so you double-click it to see what's inside. But your PDF viewer will not open. This is because you have actually just run an .exe file.
Why? Because the filename of the file is not really "Salaries-And-Benefits-Annexe.pdf". The attacker has added the RTLO character to reverse the last characters of the filename to make it look like a PDF ("exe.pdf" instead of "fdp.exe"). So the actual filename is "Salaries-And-Benefits-Ann[U+202E]fdp.exe".
Bad news is: There isn’t much that can be done about that. The only thing possible is to look out for files that have the inherently benign RTLO character within their filename. This can be done with a filesystem minifilter. But of course, this only works if right-to-left languages are rarely used in your organization. Otherwise there will be too many false positives.
During a cyber attack, the attacker is very likely to try to gain access to more credential material to escalate privileges and move laterally through the network. One technique to acquire new credentials on Windows systems is dumping the LSASS process memory, which contains credential material for logged in users, among other things.
There are many ways for an attacker to extract those secrets from the memory of this process. One example is by the use of Mimikatz by Benjamin Delpy, one of the best known tools in the hacker space. It can access and analyze the LSASS process memory to get hashes, Kerberos tickets and in some cases even cleartext passwords. Of course, it is flagged as malicious by pretty much any antivirus solution.
Another tool that can dump the LSASS process memory, that probably almost everyone knows (and is not immediately flagged by antivirus), is the Windows Task Manager. With it, an attacker can easily create a dump file of the LSASS process, download that dump file to another machine and analyze it locally.
So it is clear that protecting LSASS is a main priority on Windows systems. To achieve this, opened/duplicated handles to the LSASS process should be closely monitored, LSA protection/PPL should be enabled and SeDebugPrivileges should be restricted. To minimize the impact of an attacker dumping LSASS you should add privileged users to the Protected Users group and enable Restricted Admin mode.
Of course, many mitigations can be bypassed when an attacker can execute code in the kernel. Therefore, make sure to use Microsoft's vulnerable driver blocklist, restrict who can load kernel drivers and closely monitor related events such as driver loads.
What were the design features that made @redbullracing@sportsbots.xyz's RB19 so special?
This week's #TechTuesday takes a detailed look at the all-conquering car 
Today's Tip is for the #Excel Enthusiasts! 
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How did @ScuderiaFerrari@sportsbots.xyz beat Red Bull to pole in Mexico?
@SportmphMark@twitter.com takes a forensic look in this week's #TechTuesday 
