jerry

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[–] jerry 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, that’s correct

[–] jerry 14 points 2 weeks ago

I have messaged them directly. At least the ones I am aware of. This is a warning to others that I may not be aware of or people who decide to try it in the future.

 

I have no idea why this is a thing, but it’s come to my attention that there are several accounts here that are engaging in vote manipulation. This is fair warning that if it continues, I’ll be suspending the accounts involved.

[–] jerry 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for bringing this up.

[–] jerry 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for asking. I just added the donation links to the site’s sidebar, but here they are too: Paypal: jerry@infosec.exchange Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/infosecexchange Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/infosecexchange

[–] jerry 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apologies. It should be fixed and stay fixed now. Docker gets about 37 updates per week and for some reason that particular container won’t restart on its own, so I’ve created a script to restart it automatically.

[–] jerry 2 points 4 weeks ago

I’ve worked in all levels of management, including C-level at a Fortune 500 company, and I can tell you that from the perspective of the C level, the tools are a given. If the employees have complaints about the tools, the perception is that either the mid to lower level management or the employees are not competent and need to be replaced with ones that are able to deliver on the promise of the tools.

(I say this without judgement - most of the time it’s BS, some of the time it’s true)

[–] jerry 2 points 1 month ago

What do yall think a CISO of today needs to know/understand?

[–] jerry 2 points 1 month ago

I am trying to figure that out

[–] jerry 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I will sort it out

[–] jerry 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)
[–] jerry 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you so much for your support. It is always good to hear from people that appreciate the podcast and orchid pics. I don’t get a lot of feedback so it’s nice to hear.

[–] jerry 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Heya, I’m the admin for infosec.pub, along with a bunch of other fediverse instances including infosec.exchange. I’ve been on the fediverse for a long time - infosec.exchange turns 8 next month, for example.

With each event that disenfranchises people (twitter bought by Musk, Reddit API, etc), I’ve seen a big surge in new instances. My observation is that many people get into running multi-user instances without really understanding what it takes, time-wise, emotionally, and financially.

Some of the software, like lemmy, but also kbin, calckey, and others, get pushed into the spotlight before they’re really in a reasonable spot to support the incoming community. Lemmy is relatively well functioning and complete, but only around a core set of use cases, whereas some of the others were just nowhere near ready.

I don’t know of anything on the lemmy roadmap to add account portability.

In any event, I’m here for the long term, though I do have to keep reminding our user base that this service is free to use, but not free to run, and therefore donations are much appreciated though not mandatory.

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submitted 3 months ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

Hi all. As requested, I just added the mlmym interface to infosec.pub. It approximates the old style reddit interface.

So far, it has some.... quirks. For example, as far as I can tell, you cannot post with an "undetermined" language.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

Hi all. Lemmy 0.19.9 released today and it has some fixes I want to get in place sooner rather than later. I will be installing the upgrade in about an hour. The downtime should be minimal, but it’s also possible it goes horribly wrong and I have to run a recovery.

Edit: the upgrade is complete. It was quite painless.

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submitted 5 months ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

The following instances will be offline briefly on Saturday, December 14 from 9am ET / 2pm UTC for approxmately 10 minutes: infosec.exchange infosec.town infosec.pub pixel.infosec.exchange books.infosec.exchange matrix/element.infosec.exchange relay.infosec.exchange meetup.infosec.exchange video.infosec.exchange infosec.press infosec.place fedia.io fedia.social elk,.infosec.exchange infosec.space convo.casa

The servers supporting these instances require a reboot. The Dell servers these instances run on take a very long time to boot, so I am estimating 10 minutes of downtime. It could be more, could be less.

We use live patches to minimize reboots needed for patching, however Ubuntu only provides livepatch support for a year, which is how long most of these systems have been running for.

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submitted 5 months ago by jerry to c/foss
 

Hi all. This community was created for a spambot (tuxbot) but it appears to have some following. Is anyone interested in moderating the community?

 

The upgrade went smoothly and took less time than I expected. Let me know if any problems. And yes, tuxbot is still suspended.

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Infosec.pub downtime (self.infosecpub)
submitted 6 months ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

Hello everyone. Lemmy 0.19.6 was released today. I am going to apply the update Sunday, November 10 at 2am UTC. Downtime should not be more than one hour.

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test (self.test)
submitted 9 months ago by jerry to c/test
 

@jerry@infosec.exchange @jb2@mastodon.social

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submitted 11 months ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

Infosec.pub will be down for maintenance on Monday, July 1 2024, from approximately 10am until 1pm Eastern Time. I will be upgrading to the latest version of Lemmy, which requires an upgrade to postgres.

 

Hello everyone. I will be taking infosec.pub offline for a while today to move the instance to a new, larger server.

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Changes to Infosec.pub (self.infosecpub)
submitted 2 years ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

I am going to be disabling image uploads and image serving, moving to moderated signups, and instituting some extensive block lists on infosec.pub due to the pervasive problems with CSAM attacks on lemmy instances.

No, it’s not happened to any of our instances yet, but I don’t need that headache. And if anyone does, I promise you that I will make it my life’s mission to see that those responsible are convicted and rotting in prison where they belong. ❤️

Edit: h/t to @infosec_jcp for pointing out the problem to me.

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Please don’t enable 2FA (self.infosecpub)
submitted 2 years ago by jerry to c/infosecpub
 

2FA in lemmy doesn’t work reliably yet. Please don’t enable it or you will almost certainly get locked out.

Note: it makes me sad to post this.

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