Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine. "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day. It should be your teammate. By mastering this tool, we will outpace our adversaries. The power is now in your hands." I wonder who came up with their logo, which looks like a worm invading the Pentagon.

Hey Windows (ab)users: It's Patch Tuesday again! Patch 'em if you got 'em.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security

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...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right? "I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto" "Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now." "The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."

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I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto

An earthquake w/ a magnitude of 7.6 reportedly has struck northern Japan. A tsunami warning has been issued. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/ "The quake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:15 p.m. on Monday. Its focus was 50 kilometers deep, and the magnitude is estimated at 7.6." Strong tremors were felt across the region. Tremors with an intensity of upper 6 on the Japanese intensity scale of 0 to 7 were observed in the city of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture.

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Guess I buried the lede on this Oct 10 story, which broke the news about a record 29+ Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru IoT botnet.

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security

Because tons of sites are writing about this latest quarterly report from Cloudflare is if this is somehow news. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q3/ To my mind, the real news is that we're way past 30 Tbps capability with this botnet, and we're safely moving into a territory (terrortory?) where only Cloudflare can handle these attacks. This is problematic on a multitude of levels, and it's probably worth restating that much of the DDoS for hire industry still hides behind CF. And apparently 68 percent of phishing sites, if these stats are credible.

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68% Of Phishing Websites Are Protected by CloudFlare

Earlier this year, our CTI team set out to build something we'd been thinking about for a while: a phishing intelligence pipeline that could actual...