Imagine being that desperate for antivirus

from here

Do they have difficulty getting security software in China? It actually seems quite amazing that an advanced persistent threat group would have to resort to such means to get the software. Couldn't they just get it from a torrent site or something?

Big fake tree energy

found on Acid Cow

You really have to wonder who the cell company thinks they're fooling with this disguise. It's certainly not blending into anything in the middle of the desert. It's not even a good disguise for a wooded area, it doesn't look that much like a tree.

Because they do

from here (image source)

At least one of the eyes actually will follow you wherever you go.

Insurance Scam Backfires on Scammer

Watch on YouTube

It stands to reason that those to scammers would have been in serious hot water if they had waited for the police to arrive and see the dashcam footage, but I wonder about what would have happened without the dashcam. How many times can the scammers face the police before an officer realizes they've seen these accident 'victims' before? Could one protect oneself from this kind of scam simply by being an upstanding citizen and calling the police about one's own supposed misdeed? Anyway, the dashcam obviously helped a lot here.

Disclosure Pitfalls

from here and here (image source, article)

The problem with informing the public of vulnerabilities is that the bad guys get included and then they do this sort of thing. It could be a long time before everyone is patched, but it certainly not a long time before everyone's a target (everyone with a vulnerable exchange server, that is).

Now that's a backdoor

found on Reddit

I wonder how the rest of this vulnerability disclosure story went. Was he locked up? Did future sewer workers just release information about secret tunnels into bank vaults to the general public? And if so, how did THAT turn out?

An antivirus mogul lived long enough to see himself become the villain

from here

Honestly, McAfee hasn't been a good guy for a long time, it's just taken a while for the law to catch up with him.

Hacker Port Number sticker

Product Page

So many pieces of security merchandise that I see only serve to raise awareness of certain security concepts, so it's a refreshing change of pace to find one that can actually serve as a kind of reference or cheat sheet.

Demon Hacker shirt

Product Page

Product Page

I'm always on the lookout for good ideas, and Violet Blue had a great idea. Unfortunately this took me longer than I would have liked to get done because it's been a while since I made a design and frankly the sites I use have gotten harder to use over time. Anyway, there's a bunch of products with the design at CafePress with the mark-up set to 0, and a bunch of products at Zazzle (that I'm still struggling with and can't even get a working link to yet - so frustrating) with the mark-up set as low as it can go (5%).

And of course, if you know a print shop with better prices (I'm sure they're out there), here's the graphic itself for you to use.

Oh, and fuck Gab and their ridiculously toxic response to a data breach.

Updated to add: While you're at it, and perhaps even more importantly than the shirt, check out DDoSecret's contribution page because they've been on the receiving end of Gab's ire over this. Thanks to @donk_enby for the heads up.

Troll CEO

found on Reddit

I'm sure he's laughing all the way to the bank. Wait, no, he don't even have to go to the bank anymore, the banks come to him.