Am glad the python foundation folks gave the middle finger to Trump. Am less amused (but not surprised) that OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Apple, X AI, NVIDIA, et al. didn't each spare $1.5M more on the foundation than some of them already do. It's a rounding error on their debt-shuffling grift.

The hastily crafted (without checking with the product team first 😇) GreyNoise IP checker tool —

GreyNoise Labs

GreyNoise IP Check

Check if your IP address has been observed by GreyNoise sensors. Instantly detect malicious activity, compromised devices, and security threats aff...

— was received pretty well at work today, so I spiffied the CSS up a bit and gave it proper opengraph tags and dark mode support. Shld be a friendly way for anyone, including non-cyber folks, to see if their home IP or work NAT IP was found in GreyNoise. Might be a good idea to visit it when you're doing on-site family/friend IT support during the upcoming holiday season.

FML the "horses" Atlas + gDocs attack also works with putting a PDF of it into ChatGPT proper and asking it to summarise it.

In the past 90 days we've had ~700 IPs *only* scanning for Cisco Smart Install Endpoints (I'm in the first part of a 90d "IPs hitting only one tag" analysis to see if I can figure out some specific actor(s) and this popped up early in the dig.)

We really are doing the Nazi thing, aren't we?

The Daily Beast

Swastika Flag Spotted in MAGA Congressman’s Office

The hateful symbol was spotted during a virtual meeting inside Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

CISA staffer interrupting a briefing on the F5 situation to crassly blame Democrats for the shutdown means CISA is now officially dead to me. They can all go pound sand, and the entirety of CISA shld be transferred to ICE or RIF'd.