David
@davidscovetta.bsky.social
Proficient in hand-to-hand cyber security combat. Head of Security & Compliance Fungineering. Coffee snob and all-around Sassypants ☁️
Collecting some good #infosec Black Friday deals and discounts for 2025 - no affiliate codes or anything. Will continue to update
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November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Collecting some good #infosec Black Friday deals and discounts for 2025 - no affiliate codes or anything. Will continue to update
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LinkedIn user in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, or Hong Kong? Heads-up. LinkedIn has given you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
LinkedIn gives you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile
If you thought your postings on LinkedIn were safe from the AI-training arms race, think again.
www.bitdefender.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
LinkedIn user in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, or Hong Kong? Heads-up. LinkedIn has given you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
Brave browser posted this detailed analysis of prompt injection risks with new AI-powered browsers, taking a look at Comet in particularly. Gives me the heebie jeebies. brave.com/blog/comet-p...
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave
The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.
brave.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Brave browser posted this detailed analysis of prompt injection risks with new AI-powered browsers, taking a look at Comet in particularly. Gives me the heebie jeebies. brave.com/blog/comet-p...
Pretty jazzed for #TheAISummit in New York. Some great talks so far, even NASA is here!
December 11, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Pretty jazzed for #TheAISummit in New York. Some great talks so far, even NASA is here!
Collecting some good #infosec Black Friday deals and discounts for 2024 - no affiliate codes or anything. github.com/davidalex89/... will add more tomorrow
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November 27, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Collecting some good #infosec Black Friday deals and discounts for 2024 - no affiliate codes or anything. github.com/davidalex89/... will add more tomorrow
Welp, Fed cut the interest rates by half point today finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-cut...
Fed cuts interest rates by half point, signals two additional cuts this year
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in more than four years Wednesday, ending its most aggressive inflation-fighting campaign since the 1980s.
finance.yahoo.com
September 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Welp, Fed cut the interest rates by half point today finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-cut...
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https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
Wow. Certainly long a controversial figure in the hacker scene, but I've always gotten along with him well, and his impact on the hacker's place in the cultural consciousness cannot easily be overstated.
RIP Kevin.
Wow. Certainly long a controversial figure in the hacker scene, but I've always gotten along with him well, and his impact on the hacker's place in the cultural consciousness cannot easily be overstated.
RIP Kevin.
Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV
Celebrate the life of Kevin Mitnick, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery.
www.dignitymemorial.com
July 20, 2023 at 12:19 AM
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
Wow. Certainly long a controversial figure in the hacker scene, but I've always gotten along with him well, and his impact on the hacker's place in the cultural consciousness cannot easily be overstated.
RIP Kevin.
Wow. Certainly long a controversial figure in the hacker scene, but I've always gotten along with him well, and his impact on the hacker's place in the cultural consciousness cannot easily be overstated.
RIP Kevin.
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The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29/russian-cyber-war-an-elite-russian-hacker-spells-out-his-vision-for-information-confrontation-in-world-politics/
Russian Cyber War: An Elite Russian Hacker Spells Out His Vision for "Information Confrontation in W...
Editor’s note: This post by Dr. Bilyana Lilly provides insights into an aspect of Russia’s information warfare activities. Dr. Lilly, part of the OODA Network, is the author of the book Russian In...
www.oodaloop.com
July 8, 2023 at 6:30 AM
The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29/russian-cyber-war-an-elite-russian-hacker-spells-out-his-vision-for-information-confrontation-in-world-politics/
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Hoo boy
lol Meta made it so you can’t delete your Threads account unless you also delete your Instagram
July 6, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Hoo boy
Is reddit undeleting posts and comments? This seems a very precarious maneuver if so with #CCPA and #GDPR. More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850
Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
June 27, 2023 at 2:30 AM
Is reddit undeleting posts and comments? This seems a very precarious maneuver if so with #CCPA and #GDPR. More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850
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Hi, are we talking about AI risks this morning? Here’s a NYT story about my colleague @det.bsky.social’s new report about AI-generated CSAM. (Big-ass CW, of course.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/business/ai-generated-explicit-images.html
The Race to Prevent ‘the Worst Case Scenario for Machine Learning’
A.I. companies have an edge in blocking the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material. They’ve seen how social media companies failed.
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Hi, are we talking about AI risks this morning? Here’s a NYT story about my colleague @det.bsky.social’s new report about AI-generated CSAM. (Big-ass CW, of course.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/business/ai-generated-explicit-images.html
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Exploring space is easier than exploring the ocean bottom…
Pressure difference between a space capsule and the vacuum of space:
Less than 1 atmosphere.
Pressure difference between a submersible at the Titanic and the surrounding water pressure:
Nearly 400 atmospheres (5,600 pounds per square inch)
Pressure difference between a space capsule and the vacuum of space:
Less than 1 atmosphere.
Pressure difference between a submersible at the Titanic and the surrounding water pressure:
Nearly 400 atmospheres (5,600 pounds per square inch)
June 23, 2023 at 5:57 AM
Exploring space is easier than exploring the ocean bottom…
Pressure difference between a space capsule and the vacuum of space:
Less than 1 atmosphere.
Pressure difference between a submersible at the Titanic and the surrounding water pressure:
Nearly 400 atmospheres (5,600 pounds per square inch)
Pressure difference between a space capsule and the vacuum of space:
Less than 1 atmosphere.
Pressure difference between a submersible at the Titanic and the surrounding water pressure:
Nearly 400 atmospheres (5,600 pounds per square inch)
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A former OceanGate employee complained specifically that the tourist submersible was not capable of descending to such extreme depths — and then he was fired
Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
newrepublic.com
June 20, 2023 at 9:08 PM
A former OceanGate employee complained specifically that the tourist submersible was not capable of descending to such extreme depths — and then he was fired
Just came across this “Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps - A threat analysis of sideloading” from Apple in 2021. Interesting read! https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps_A_Threat_Analysis_of_Sideloading.pdf
www.apple.com
June 14, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Just came across this “Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps - A threat analysis of sideloading” from Apple in 2021. Interesting read! https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps_A_Threat_Analysis_of_Sideloading.pdf
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New by me @forbes.com: Four more Google Chrome browser vulnerabilities confirmed, including one that’s critical and impacts the autofill payments function.
New Critical Google Chrome Payments Security Issue Confirmed
Google has confirmed a new security vulnerability, rated as critical, that impacts the autofill payments function of the Chrome browser.
www.forbes.com
June 14, 2023 at 9:07 AM
New by me @forbes.com: Four more Google Chrome browser vulnerabilities confirmed, including one that’s critical and impacts the autofill payments function.
Cool, first day on here and already found @swiftonsecurity.com @accidentalciso.bsky.social @shehackspurple.bsky.social @troyhunt.bsky.social and even @neildegrassetyson.com to follow! Feed is clean and insightful. Glad I signed up!
June 10, 2023 at 7:25 AM
Cool, first day on here and already found @swiftonsecurity.com @accidentalciso.bsky.social @shehackspurple.bsky.social @troyhunt.bsky.social and even @neildegrassetyson.com to follow! Feed is clean and insightful. Glad I signed up!