I am retiring this social media account. Find me as @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
Orlando, FL
Joined November 2008
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
Video clip from the big Emotet malware takedown this week. Notice the gold bars. Video source: National Police of Ukraine
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I didn’t see this coming, but law enforcement has taken down Emotet’s infrastructure. Glad to see it, this is one piece of malware I’ve seen used consistently to enable other operations.
europol.europa.eu/newsroom/n…
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
oh, this is *very* shiny. still unpatched in Ubuntu, too 👀
Heap-based buffer overflow in sudo exploitable by any local user. Can be used to elevate privileges to root, even if user not listed in sudoers file. User auth is not required to exploit the bug
sudo.ws/alerts/unescape_over…
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Reporting for Jury Duty tomorrow. I'm swinging wildly between, "Jeez, I'm a sucker" and "This is important, I feel good about going."
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I was hoping to connect with a community of like-minded people. The problem is it worked out too well. I should have wished for more diversity thought and celebration of underrepresented stories.
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
Thoughtful thread, including background and some great pictures of other countries' currency.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t even want Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill. Honestly I think there’s some sort of perversion in doing so. A woman who was traded as capital becoming the face of capital doesn’t sit right with my spirit.
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I’m surprisingly OK with this idea. I support the notion of UBI, universal healthcare, and free education at least through undergrad.
Because we’re all in this together. And we need to address these issues before the guillotines start appearing. /fin
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So if you’re one of the lucky few (like me) who has been dealt the winning hand and can work remote and make a good living, I’m happy for you. But give a thought to the wrenching dislocation that this societal shift is going to have on those less fortunate. 6/n
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This is clearly not good for these service industries and the people they currently employ. But I would also argue it is a bad thing for our society to be shedding these jobs into a gig economy which so far appears to be exploiting many for the benefit of very few. 5/n
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And I fear the long-term outlook for these service jobs is bad. Lacking economy of scale, remote employees will look to gig workers to fill some of these functions—house cleaning, catering/shopping, etc. 4/n
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Janitorial staff, physical security, catering and hospitality, to name just a few. As these jobs go away, the income gap widens even further. And the burden of providing these services shifts to the remote employees. 3/n
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Because a large shift to decentralized work tanks not only the commercial real estate business, but also a whole sector of service work that exists to handle large concentrations of office workers. 2/n
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
My husband is looking for an entry level position in cyber security. He just received his associates in cyber security at 43! This is his first degree, fulfilling the wish of his mom who passed away from lung cancer 2 years ago. Please share and reach out with leads.
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
The Navajo Code Talkers are an incredible story, and it's fascinating to see how the Navajo/Diné people cleverly adapted their language, rooted in the experiences of an agricultural people in the desert Southwest, to convey military jargon & naval terminology.
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
Reminder:
If you’re not actively engaged in some form of anti-racism & anti-sexism, that means that *in effect*, you’re cool with how things are.
That’s probably not how you actually feel, so why ignore it, hoping someone else will fix it?
Your silence actively perpetuates it.
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who its friends are.
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