Last year we gave away over $100,000 of educational material to students, nerds, and hobbyists on the internet. The giveaway was to act as a celebration for the Holiday season, New Year, blah blah blah. It was supposed to help people out because sometimes cybersecurity educational material can be expensive.

I have learned nearly 80% of the people I gave free educational material to (vouchers for courses, free certification stuff, etc) did NOT complete the material and did NOT receive certification. Only a small minority of people actually put the educational material to good use

This is very upsetting news. I am also disappointed with the excuses people had presented with why they had not completed the educational material and/or put it to use.

Some of the educational material would require, at minimum, 30-minutes of time a day. There is almost no reason why you could not allocate 30-minutes of time a day to learning.

Not only have these students wasted their own potential and squandered a free gift, they also robbed another potential student of an opportunity.

I am profoundly disappointed.

"Well, I've just been really busy".

I work a full time job, I have a vx-underground, and I have a family which includes a newborn baby. If I am able to allocate 30 minutes of time a day to doing something there is literally ZERO reason you could not set aside 30 minutes.

You're fucking LAZY. You're lazy and you wanted a free handout. Despite the educational material delivered to you on a silver platter FOR FREE you still chose you do nothing.

You will never succeed in this career field if you cannot do something as simple as study for 30 minutes.

I've had some positive feedback from the giveaways though.

I gave away like, $20,000 cash to various charities. A doctor who does stuff with kids with seizures called me and personally thanked me.

Some church that does stuff that helps Military Veterans who have PTSD made me a "Thank you" video and said the money would directly go to soldiers who were having a bad New Year, or something.

Some stinky nerd sent me this too

Received a message today about a young and passionate student who is studying malware reverse engineering.

They're 11 years old. That's amazing.

What's more amazing is they're blind.

Do you have any fucking idea how LOCKED THE FUCK IN you have to be to reverse engineer malware WHILE BLIND? This 11 year is LISTENING to x64 disassembly.

THEY'RE LISTENING TO ASSEMBLY

Dawg, we gotta find a way to hook this kid up. Send him to DEFCON, get him a VirusTotal enterprise license, something, I don't know. This kid is COOKING

Roman Novak and Anna Novak, Russian cryptocurrency scammers and obnoxious Instagram flexers, have been confirmed deceased by UAE authorities.

Him and his wife were brutally murdered and dismembered after what police believe was Mr. Novak refusing to give the kidnappers his cryptocurrency wallet.

Mr. and Mrs. Novak were believed to possess over $500,000,000 in various crypto assets after defrauding investors in Russia.

I don't want to disrespect the deceased.

I would like to state however that if you possess extreme wealth, and flaunt it online, you are placing a giant target on your back.

https://www.instagram.com/t0r

Every couple of months, or years, I don't know, I don't remember anymore, all these different governments come together and do this thing called "Operation Endgame".

They takedown botnets, and stuff, and make it this big ass theatrical event. Each takedown is released in "seasons" and "episodes". They even released videos and it's all anime-like and sort of edgy

The entire purpose of this, of course, is to garner attention and do anti-Threat Actor propaganda. For example, in the latest "episode" of Operation Endgame, the federal agencies behind Operation Endgame assert Rhadamanthys, one of the thingies they took down, was secretly stealing money from their "clients". In other words, the criminal selling to criminals was taking a little extra money off the top from criminals.

Ultimately, these law enforcement agencies want people to see these videos, see the blog posts, and discuss it. They then want would-be Threat Actors (or active Threat Actors) to see it and become scared.

These Operation Endgame seasons and episodes are both news and/or media grabbing and also an intimidation tactic.

It is interesting. I enjoy watching the silly Operation Endgame videos they release. I understand what these law enforcement agencies are trying to do. My primary criticism however is the lack of kitty cats.

I have yet to see a single silly kitty cat in any of the videos. It's always some weird edgy scifi cyber punk spooky voodoo stuff. Whatever. Want to get peoples attention? Show a silly kitty cat.

Please see attached photo as something which may get the publics attention. This is something which will make people stop and go, "wow, now that's a fucking nice looking kitty cat"

If the next Operation Endgame propaganda video has a kitty cat on it, I'll fuckin lose my mind. I'll probably start blasting divorced dad rock and shadow box in my underwear

I am yet again doing another talk at another college.

Ranting like a schizophrenic person about malware is very lucrative (I've been getting paid in pizza).

I'll be schizo ranting about malware at Oakland Community College on November 19th.

Thanks for the pizza, nerds

If you would like me to ruin your educational experience by swearing profusely, vaping into a microphone, making your professors uncomfortable, and discussing Taco Bell inflation, I will do so for food.

Dawg, these goobers are trying to convince me to go outside. I am NOT falling for it.

I got invited to speak at a conference. I seriously made up (what I believed to be) the most outrageous demands. I requested:
- First class flight (business class, luxury seating)
- Hotel paid for in totality, king size bed
- All food and drinks paid for

These dorks AGREED. Hahahahaha. Nice try, losers. You can't trick me into going outside.

I'm a stinky nerd. I'm white as cocaine. Outside is dangerous and scary. You will have to drag my lifeless body out of this bedroom before I meet people IRL.

OhHh u caN meEt PeoPlE aNd TraVeL

I've got Discord and National Geographic. I've spoken to people and I've seen the planet. I'm good.

My Xitter DMs are broken. It displays "chat" now instead and only loads a dozen or so.

Lame.

Anyway, updates coming soon to the malware place.

Kk love you bye

Big nerd fight happening on the internet as open source software nerds debate whether or not Palantir can contribute because they assert Palantir is a fascist organization

Can Palantir contribute to open source software? Is Palantir fascist? Is it even worth arguing about?

Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z

Gonna say something that might rustle some jimmies, but we have GOT to be honest for a second.

Last month the Chinese governments CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) released a paper detailing alleged United States NSA TAO (Tailored Access Operations) campaigns targeting Chinese NTSC (National Time Service Center) since at least 2022.

When the paper was released I saw people in information security and Information Technology critical of the paper released by the Chinese government asserting it to be propaganda.

Dawg, I hear you (I think?) but let's be real for a second. Do you sincerely think the United States government is some angel on the internet and takes and/or performs ZERO offensive operations?

To be clear, you seriously think every government on the planet, especially enemies of the United States, are performing military cyber offensive operations but the United States isn't?

What kind of loony tune world do you live in? The United States government is basically making up excuses to bomb people in the Middle East. You don't think they do the same thing online?

Listen man, I'm an American, I love the United States, it's my home. It's my team. But don't lie to yourself. Your tax dollars are 100% being used for offensive cyber operations against anyone or anything they deem a threat. In fact, I'd argue they would target non-threats just to gather intelligence.

Chinese discussion about the whole thing for those who are curious:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BZ9Epp5IgeiNS6wWx3JCpA

Oh yeah, you're into computers? Prove it.

Build an NVIDIA graphics card out of nothing but sand, used toilet paper, and this weird t-shirt I bought at a thrift store.

If you can't you're a POSER and a PHONY