This reminds me that I need to find my ‘Hacker’ rant …

🔗 Your Data Lake’s Vulnerability Problem Is Really an Identity Problem

One contractor laptop. Multiple enterprise environments compromised. That’s the actual story.
In mid-2024, at least 165 organizations got hit through their Snowflake instances. AT&T lost over 50 billion call records. Ticketmaster, Santander, Advance Auto Parts. The headlines wrote themselves: Snowflake hacked.
Except Snowflake wasn’t hacked. Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and Snowflake all reached the same conclusion in their forensics. No zero-day. No flaw in the cryptographic platform. No internal compromise of Snowflake’s corporate network. No brute-force attacks against API limits.
What actually happened? UNC5537, a financially motivated group also tracked as Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, walked through the front door with valid stolen credentials. Those credentials were harvested over years by commodity infostealer malware (VIDAR, LUMMA, REDLINE) running on the personal laptops of third-party contractors. The same laptops these contractors used for gaming and pirated software also held the keys to their clients' enterprise data lakes.

💬 Logan @ LLBLL

There’s those 🖇️ Pace Layers creeping in again - and I definitely like using ‘category’ as a distinguishing mark. Years ago I wrote piece that asked if 🖇️ New Zealand had ‘Crossed The Chasm’

🔗 The war between fast and legitimate is here

If you’re running a startup, you’re in the speed game, and pretending you’re running a regulatory agency is a category error. If you’re running a regulatory agency, you’re in the legitimacy game, and it’s something of a vapid conceit to pretend to be running a startup. Most of the dysfunction in contemporary institutions comes from this same category confusion

💬 Joan Westenberg

They say 'Home' is where you 'Hang Your Hat'

Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it.

🔗 Geography is four-dimensional

But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore.

💬 Derek Sivers

When it gets down to it I always - always refer to myself as English. On first introduction maybe a Brit - or British - but deep down … English.

And - there is my ‘home’ - but haven’t really lived there much in my life.

I was close to nine before I even got to the country that I wasn’t even born in and lived in the US longer than I ever lived in the UK - and now down here in New Zealand. And the magnet that is home pulls me there - but I know enough that it isn’t the place I left.

I am in New Zealand and not (yet at least) returning to the USA - because I know that isn’t what it used to be. And that just isn’t to do with the clown. I found myself disenchanted with Silicon Valley fifteen years ago - even living in it - it was clear that “‘It’s’ not like that anymore” … Fifteen years later … other people seem to be catching up.

Home? Definitely - where I hang my hat in a day-to-day sense.
Spiritually? England - no doubt - even though it’s not like that anymore.
From? What’s the context?

👁️ TIL a lot about something I did not know that I didn’t know and didn’t know that I needed to know.

👁️ I wonder if CrucialTracks RSS publishing mechanism is down❓

👁️ Clearly a while since I was here - bus stop not just gone - disappeared❗️

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