It is striking that NO major #US #TV #network aired live footage of #Trump & #Xi from the #WhiteHouse Thurs. A high-stakes summit with a rival superpower would typically pre-empt regular programming. Instead, the networks have not provided footage because of the ban of #CNN, #MSNOW & #Politico.

#ABC, today’s designated pool network, had a camera crew ready, but the crew stood down as the admin defied a judge’s order to restore access to the banned outlets.

#law #press
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/24/business/trump-cnn-politico-msnow-white-house/8ccb603b-48a9-52e7-bec0-d6d905aefe32?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share

État des lieux des serveurs de temps NTP (Network Time Protocol) et NTS (Network Time Security) en France #Network #NTP https://ntp.rdem-systems.com/serveur-ntp-france.php

A #Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide

source: wired.com/story/a-security-pro…

Given the danger of those breaches—both in terms of the exposure of sensitive data and the ongoing theft of cryptocurrency enriching the North Korean regime—the real concern shouldn’t necessarily be the companies Stykas has named but rather the ones he hasn’t. Those companies include hundreds that never responded to his warnings, he says, as well as more added to the list every day.

And this, folks, is called security theater. Companies know that cyber threats are real.
They know that #cybercriminals attack them every day. But many companies respond with checklists. Someone has to tick the boxes. Again and again. Often, these people have little cybersecurity training. They may not fully understand what they are checking.
The checklist may be outdated. And sometimes, nobody in the company even knows why the checklist exists. It looks like security. But looking secure is not the same as being secure. This is where things can get almost absurd.

Companies may spend huge amounts of money on expensive security software. Sometimes, the software is not even very good. Sometimes, it creates more complexity and more possible ways for attackers to get in. But that is not always the real goal. The real goal can be to say later: “We did everything we could.” It is like putting a security camera on the front door, never checking whether it works, and then pointing at it after the robbery. The company wants to prove that it did not act carelessly. Real security becomes secondary. In cybersecurity, this is the difference between security and security theater. And even the biggest idiot should notice the problem when there is nobody left in the company to deal with the warnings. That is exactly what can happen. The security system sends alerts. Nobody reads them. Nobody investigates them. Nobody has the time, the skills, or sometimes even the job to deal with them. So the alerts are simply ignored.

And here is the really strange part. The internet still works. It works partly because, for cybercriminals, stealing from badly protected companies is often more profitable than destroying the whole system. It is like a city where every door is unlocked. Criminals do not need to burn down the city. They can simply walk inside and take what they want.

That may be the biggest lesson of all: Cybersecurity is not about having the right boxes checked. It is about knowing what can go wrong, finding the real risks, and making sure that someone is actually there when the alarm goes off.

#cybersecurity #security #software #news #northkorea #crypto #cyberattack #fail #internet #economy #warning #danger #securitytheater #hack #hacker #crime #network #cyberspace #knowledge #knowhow #cybercrime #cyberattack #cyber

#SWEDISH #CRIMINAL #NETWORK RECRUITS #TEENAGERS ON BEHALF OF #IRAN: On August 2, the #BBC published a major #investigation into the Swedish criminal group #Foxtrot. Since 2023, Foxtrot has systematically carried out operations on behalf of Iran’s #government across #europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrjyevmv61o

Portmaster: a free and open-source Application Firewall for Windows and Linux. Monitor every Network Connection on your Computer and set per-application Rules for what to block - Project by IVPN #Infosec #Network https://safing.io/

But for the #network admins out there, I'm curious: What's your take on captive portals for guest wireless in this day and age?

Personally, I've seen it cause a large number of end-user complaints a majority of the time it's implemented. I'd also question the legal efficacy, especially when a lot of companies are blindly throwing in a generic/default use agreement. I feel like I haven't seen as many guest networks leaning on captive portal as I used to.

Then again, I've been outside of most "enterprise networking" until last year, so I'd love to hear from folks who have been immersed in that area longer.

Dear #network teachers, students and #hacker friends, I have a #browser based network simulator to enable learning #networking. Please have a look and tell me what do you think. Made for desktop or bigger screens.

https://howcomputer.works/netsim/ Everything is in the browser, and there is documentation.

The goal is to allow kids to start learning while their schools/systems are not big enough to be able to build lab networks. It has a small/minimal #curl implementation too. @bagder

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A simple network setup.

Wondering how and why? With @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe and @BoxedTux@mastodon.social, I’m already running platforms that provide free VPS instances for educational purposes, learning and testing for years now. I guess, providing real AS and peering services (maybe even sponsoring LIR in cooperation [but this would cost money]) could also be very interesting for several ones, apart from the DN42 network. Happily looking for feedback…

#isp #network #networking #ipv6 #as #autonomoussystem #ipv4 #free #opensource #devops

ADVICE NEEDED: I own a 4 bedroom, 2 storey house. It is a 1920's UK build with brick internal walls, with a more modern extension. My router sits downstairs in the living room, and the signal is blocked beyond that room. I have 3x TP-Link AV600 powerline WiFi extenders, but the signal isn't enough to cover the whole house. An outdoor office is being built 10m outside the house. I want to buy a mesh network. What do I need, and can you point to something suitable off the shelf? #askFedi #network

RE: https://mastodon.world/@G4Media/116856934161230253

Romanian is one of the Romance languages i haven’t studied that have always been difficult to decipher due to its Cyrillic-esque orthography.

am learning to read it with #Mastodon’s translation feature.

humans #network thru #languages. if you want to grow the #fediverse, you must make it easy to translate what dazzles yet cannot be easily read.

yet another reason to love @Gargron’s vision of what the platform could be and the elegantly forward thinking work of the @MastodonEngineering team.

⋅ 15 Best Linux Network Monitoring Tools in 2026

− https://cybersecuritynews.com/linux-network-monitoring-tools/

#Linux #Network #NetworkMonitoring

@johnnythan

Hi,
she says that they're a #network of #tolerance & #AliceWeidel & other #rightwingers are more than welcome & they don't want to be a #leftist #bubble

And that #bluesky is boring bc of blocklists

She claims they have no #bots on #wsocial - which is not true

And they are onto your #ID by #realnameregistration - which is pictured as a protective measure for the user

And… they spin the story that #Twitter was great before #Musk bought is 🙄 & that we need a #european #Alternative

#wsocial was announcing a top-down approach to get their #network working & they are doing it

In the #Blick article #AnnaZeiter explains why #AliceWeidel & other #Nazis are welcome to her #socialmedia #platform https://www.blick.ch/digital/anna-zeiter-bringt-twitter-alternative-w-social-auch-alice-weidel-ist-willkommen-id22026157.html

wSocial tries to become a new #Tech #empire by pulling on their personal networks & riding the problematic term of #European #Sovereignty

#Lobbying the #rich & #powerful seems to pay out in the #EuropeanUnion ¯\(°_o)/¯

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Screenshot of the BLICK article on WSocial and Anna Zeiter

#SocialMedia of #realnameregistration , oh sorry, they call it real #humans , that advertises with " #AI " #slop

#wsocial is more than problematic

And already has #bots crawling it's #network

Now they show that they are problematic concerning #aesthetics as well & advertise with tasteless #aislop

@bildoperationen

#realnameregistration is highly dangerous & if the company that wants to have your most private data can't save there net from bots they're not very trustworthy, are they?
#tech

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Still of an "AI" slop video of W Social