The Three IT Roles: The King, the Sage, and the Cog
I observe three basic types of people working in the IT field: kings, sages, and cogs. The King The king is one who has complete…
Author: Cybernoz
Why I’m No Longer Warning People Before I Link to My Own Content Within Social Networking
It is considered good social networking etiquette–especially on Twitter–to warn your followers that you are posting a link to content on your own blog or…
AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model’s tendency…
Symbolic Link trick lets attackers bypass FortiGate patches, Fortinet warns
Symbolic Link trick lets attackers bypass FortiGate patches, Fortinet warns Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2025 Fortinet warns attackers can keep read-only access to FortiGate devices…
Why Religion is More Dangerous Than Handguns
We’ve been debating agnosticism and atheism here for the last couple of weeks. One of the sub-arguments that has pronounced itself has come from my…
Tycoon2FA phishing kit targets Microsoft 365 with new tricks
Phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Tycoon2FA, known for bypassing multi-factor authentication on Microsoft 365 and Gmail accounts, has received updates that improve its stealth and evasion capabilities.…
A Sad Outlook for Humanity
This doesn’t bode well. Here’s an interesting list of predictions from the study: The main drivers of religious affiliation to 2043 are immigration and secularization.…
Leak confirms OpenAI’s GPT 4.1 is coming before GPT 5.0
OpenAI is working on yet another AI model, reportedly called GPT-4.1, a successor to GPT-4o. The Verge recently reported that OpenAI plans to launch GPT-4.1, which…
Are the Religious More Logical Than I Think?
A friend of mine (CarlM) and I have a long-running debate regarding how logical or illogical the average religious person is in the United States.…
Seven Years Old Cisco Vulnerability Exposes Cisco Devices to Remote Code Execution Attacks
A seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco networking equipment continues to pose significant security risks, enabling attackers to execute remote code on unpatched systems. Discovered initially in…
How Bad is the Ignorance Problem in the United States?
In short? Bad. To give an overall flavor, here is a collection of data from a number of polls on American belief in evolution, correlated…
Hackers Exploiting Domain Controller to Deploy Ransomware Using RDP
Microsoft has recently uncovered a sharp rise in ransomware attacks exploiting domain controllers (DCs) through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), with the average attack costing organizations…