Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

@internic I'm also considering splitting my #Mastodon presence across 2-3 instances. Most of my follows are on lists, so ideally I'd find a tool to "migrate everyone except the ones on these three lists."

I think I'll just move everything onto my new "home" instance (#qoto, probably) and manually refollow my favorites on the old instance.

I'm unclear about the effect of putting a #redirect on the old instance, as we're advised to do--will that hamper my ability to continue having a distinct presence there?

#feditips

@ianbetteridge @pluralistic ah the app cartel

".... If Google and Apple were competing over mobile, you’d expect that one of them would drop the sky-high 30 percent rake they charge on in-app payments, but that would mess up their mutual good thing. Instead, these “competitors” charge exactly the same price for a service with minimal operating costs."

I shudder at losing 2-3% in sales to credit card fees. Having 10-15 times that scooped up every time you sell your app? Ongoing pain.

I've been reading @jkosseff's amazingly titled new book, Liar in a Crowded Theater, about online misinfo and the First Amendment.

If you're in DC, join Jeff and me for a book chat at Busboys & Poets on Thursday at 6pm.

I had heard this story in passing and thought it must be satire, but, no, per @pluralistic, this happened and is more bizarre than I realized.

https://doctorow.medium.com/amazons-bestselling-bitter-lemon-energy-drink-was-bottled-delivery-driver-piss-c87a23156195

NPR: After a talk by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen was "postponed," some authors also pulled out of future events. The writer had signed an open letter criticizing Israel and calling for a ceasefire.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208204142/staff-at-nyc-cultural-center-resign-after-acclaimed-authors-event-canceled

The plan for Obsidian is to never grow beyond 10-12 people, never take VC funding, never collect personal data or analytics.

Continue building with the assumption that software is ephemeral, files matter more than apps. Use formats that are open and durable.

See our manifesto:
https://obsidian.md/about

Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kxd8a/elon-musk-still-doesnt-understand-how-wikipedia-works

I just finished writing a draft of the first part of my free ebook:

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The Hacktivist Field Manual: Reverse engineering
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This field manual is aimed at hackers and reverse engineerings who which to navigate the difficult grounds of legislation when reverse engineering.

I'll be posting Part 1 of this manual this week to subscribers of my newsletter over at https://0x0v1.com

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More about the newsletter:

I'll be posting Part 1 of the ebook on my website this week, hopefully by Friday. This will be released as part of my weekly newsletter (which I changed from being every Friday, because deadlines just suck and I couldn't make them - sorry!)

You can sign up to get this newsletter on my website: https://www.0x0v1.com/

Other stuff I'll be mentioning in the newsletter:
- Hacking menstrual cycle tracking apps
- Online hacktivist hackerspace! Get involved.
- Translating malware into art

#hacktivism #art #hacking #activism #reverseengineering

1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account

1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity and authentication service that disclosed a breach on Friday.

“On September 29, we detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance that we use to manage our employee-facing apps,” 1Password CTO Pedro Canahuati wrote in an email. “We immediately terminated the activity, investigated, and found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems, either employee-facing or user-facing.”

Since then, Canahuati said, his company had been working with Okta to determine the means that the unknown attacker used to access the account. On Friday, investigators confirmed it resulted from a breach Okta reported hitting its customer support management system.

Okta said then that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its customer support case management system and, from there, viewed files uploaded by some Okta customers. The files the threat actor obtained in the Okta compromise comprised HTTP archive, or HAR, files, which Okta support personnel use to replicate customer browser activity during troubleshooting sessions. Among the sensitive information they store are authentication cookies and session tokens, which malicious actors can use to impersonate valid users.

Security firm BeyondTrust said it discovered the intrusion after an attacker used valid authentication cookies in an attempt to access its Okta account. The attacker could perform “a few confined actions,” but ultimately, BeyondTrust access policy controls stopped the activity and blocked all access to the account. 1Password now becomes the second known Okta customer to be targeted in a follow-on attack.

Monday’s statement from 1Password provided no further details about the incident, and representatives didn’t respond to questions. A report dated October 18 and shared on an internal 1Password Notion workspace said the threat actor obtained a HAR file a company IT employee had created when recently engaging with Okta support. The file contained a record of all traffic between the 1Password employee’s browser and Okta servers, including session cookies.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/1password-detects-suspicious-activity-in-its-internal-okta-account/

@internic @dangoodin Yes, and get ready for a lot more of these disclosures. I think Okta told the WSJ it was > 180 customers affected.

For those of you not on the other platforms where scientists hang out, biologist Michael Eisen was just removed from the chief editor position of the prestigious journal @eLife, allegedly for retweeting an Onion piece sympathetic to Palestinians.

#eLife #Palestine #Censorship

We detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance but confirmed no user data was accessed.

Pedro Canahuati, our CTO, provides more information in a blog post, which includes our internal Okta Incident Report for additional details.

https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/

Is anyone familiar with #QGIS? I need help!

(ref previous post in thread)
> As part of these support cases, Okta routinely asks customers to upload HTTP Archive (HAR) files to troubleshoot customer problems. However, these HAR files contain sensitive data, including authentication cookies and session tokens

Browsers really should offer a way to exclude data from HAR files before saving; I recently went to quite a lot of effort to hand-edit the JSON in a HAR file to exclude my password or session cookie; it was tedious, and not something users should be expected to do. Likewise we shouldn't expect users to send un-censored HAR files by way of debugging.
#1Password #infosec #ux #browser #webDev

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.

Scoop: Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit

Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Okta says the incident affected a “very small number” of customers, however it appears the hackers responsible had access to Okta’s support platform for at least two weeks before the company fully contained the intrusion.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/hackers-stole-access-tokens-from-oktas-support-unit/

1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account

1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/1password-detects-suspicious-activity-in-its-internal-okta-account/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social