🦈 Wireshark profiles.
• Especially for #Wireshark fans: a repository with a bunch of ready-made profiles for analyzing this or that traffic.
• It's extremely easy to use - download the zip of the profile you need from the link below, import it into Wireshark, select the network interface... profit. Yes, you can add the filters you need yourself, but here everything has already been done for you. Use it!
PhishingSecLists
Github repo with wordlists for #phishing domains investigations:
Wizard.txt - common filenames/directories where they might be saving credentials
Shells.txt - popular shell file names
https://github.com/spmedia/PhishingSecLists/
Contributor twitter.com/Edmond_Major
What is the youngest age you have seen or heard a person died due to cardiac arrest?
Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.
microG GMSCore v0.3.6.244735 has been released on 2024-12-23.
UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS:
This is a feature and bugfix/compatibility update. There is at least one report of a new issue with this release.
If you have critical reliance on your device you may want to wait a week or two until more user reports are in before updating to this. (UNLESS you are still on 0.2.27 for UNLP reasons. Scroll to the bottom of this doc for more info before installing.)
New Features Overview
Initial Support for Play Integrity
If you need this, you probably already know what it is. We doubt this is going to be some magic solution as Google is always targeting to block custom ROM users with this tool, but it may improve compatibility for some users. Let us know how it works for you.
Add support in the Self-Check Page to show compatibility with Google’s new app signing regime
Google recently broke compatibility with Google Apps and future apps downloaded from Google Play by changing their app signing scheme.
This requires a change in your app signature spoofing solution, either inside your ROM or in an external add-on. This change will show you if your ROM or signature spoofing solution has updated to support this Google change.
Other improvements
Improve Google Play Games compatibility, general compatibility improvements, various bugfixes, language translation updates.
For a full changelog, see the links below.
Github release page
Includes release notes overview
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.3.6.244735
DETAILED changelogs with code commits:
0.3.5 —> 0.3.6
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/compare/v0.3.5.240913...v0.3.6.244735
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UPDATING:
* This has been flagged as a PREVIEW release on the microG website and F-droid repo.
Since this is a “Preview” release, it will NOT be suggested to you as a new update unless you have your client configured to offer "unstable” software versions, or select the new version manually in the “Versions” dropdown at the bottom of the app page on F-droid.
The most straightforward way to update the microG core module for most people is by using the F-droid client, with the special microG F-droid repo added. (See our “f-droid-repo” group note here)
You can also update microG on an existing installation by downloading the new APK from the official microG Github download page or website, and install it like any other standalone APK.
REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE TWO MAIN MICROG COMPONENTS: GmsCore and microG Companion. Always update both together, and ensure the version numbers match.
If you use a ROM which bundles microG and the above update methods do not work, you may have to wait for your ROM to update to the new microG version. Ask your ROM developer.
For new installs, the 3rd-party installer bundles will be updated as per each developer's workflow.
Russia is preparing to block WhatsApp in 2025.
Adobe-Alternatives.
List of alternatives to Adobe software.
The lists are ordered with free and open source options first.
Very sadly DivestOS come to the end 😱😭
Anniversary and Final Update¶
Notes from Tavi
December marks 10 years of DivestOS!
There were over 7,000 git commits created in this time.
I believe the projects were highly successful in their goals, however this month will mark the end.
DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates.
Hypatia and Carrion will no longer receive database updates.
The non-mobile Divested projects (eg. Brace, D-WRT, real-ucode, and DNS blocklists) will continue to be maintained.
Most of our forum threads will be closed and the DivestOS XMPP chat rooms will also be turned off.
Donations will no longer be accepted and all recurring donations will be cancelled.
Thank you to all the users, contributors, and donors for this time. -Tavi
Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
If you pick Gold over Bitcoin, you are going to lose massively in the next 5 years.
If you pick Stocks over Bitcoin, you are going to lose massively in the next 5 years.
If you pick Real Estate over Bitcoin, you are going to lose massively in the next 5 years.
You still may be rich.
Peter Schiff will still be rich.
But you will have missed the transition of #Bitcoin to the top asset class of all asset classes.
This will mainly happen, i expect, in the next 5 years.
It will be mainly driven by IBIT and MSTR.
- Fred Krueger
Be happy.
If you are healthy, conscious and have people by your side who love you
Everything else is added.
🔄 40+ OSINT extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox.
• Browser extensions can play a big role for #OSINT specialists, not to mention increasing productivity at work.
• This repository contains 40+ useful Google Chrome and Firefox extensions that will help you analyze data from open sources and come in handy in your work:
Stress tests and reviews of seed phrase storage devices - by Jameson Lopp. 70+ devices tested!
Link: https://jlopp.github.io/metal-bitcoin-storage-reviews/
#opsec #security #privacy
Vehicle AI #OSINT
Free tool for identifying cars by photo. Determines brand, model, year of manufacture, etc., even if the photo shows only part of the car or the image quality leaves much to be desired.
📱 Netflix fined thanks to GDPR
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Netflix €4.75 million for failing to provide sufficient information to its users about the use of their personal data between 2018 and 2020, thereby violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Although Netflix has since updated its privacy policy, it has denied the fine and is considering appealing it.
A company like this, with a turnover of billions and millions of customers around the world, has to adequately explain to its customers how it handles their personal data.
said DPA President Aleid Wolfsen
Age v1.2.1
[age-encryption.org]
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
$ age-keygen -o key.txt
Public key: age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p
$ tar cvz ~/data | age -r age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p > data.tar.gz.age
$ age --decrypt -i key.txt data.tar.gz.age > data.tar.gz
Changelog:
British Indian tourist goes to India for 3 years and calls it "a dump".
He says even other poorer countries in Asia like Vietnam are better.
India is in denial about it's global reputation.
⏰ Arrested for her watch
Trail runner Tina Lewis was arrested in Goa, India, in early December 2024 for wearing a satellite-based GPS watch, a Garmin inReach Mini.
The problem is simple, the device was mistaken for a satellite phone, which are illegal in India under the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1933.
Lewis spent several days at the police station, was released on bail, and faced a court case that cost her thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.
The incident served to highlight the common confusion between GPS devices and satellite phones, and how this can lead to arrests in India.