overview for jerry

Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! by jerry in c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

It’s a rough job market for several reasons. My best recommendation is to do something that will distinguish yourself from others (blog, podcast, etc etc) and also try to establish a relationship with someone at prospective employers to get them to “pull” you in. I know, I know, easier said than done, but that’s where we are at.

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Infosec.pub scheduled downtime (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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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.

meta federation stance by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t have an intention to block threads here

Just curious, why does this instance defederate feddit.nl? by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 4 months ago

I am still here. Just don’t post much. I unblocked feddit.nl. It was quite problematic in the past but willing to try again.

'Networking' community is back by jerry in c/networking@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 7 points 6 months ago

welcome back!

Infosec.pub downtime for maintenance by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 8 points 7 months ago

I don’t play around any more :)

Infosec.pub downtime for maintenance by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 19 points 7 months ago

ok - infosec.pub is now running on my main infrastructure - a 48 core/96 thread AMD epyc zen4 genoa with 256GB of DDR5 ECC ram and 2x4TB nvme SSDs, backed by a dedicated database server with the exact same specs, on a 10gbps network.

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Infosec.pub downtime for maintenance (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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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 (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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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.

Hey @jerry, do you have any backup? Is there any way we can help you? by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago

I appreciate the offer and will likely make a call for more help soon.

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Please don’t enable 2FA (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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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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Blocking sh.itjust.works (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Hi all. I am going to implement a block for sh.itjust.works. I am going to need years of therapy from all the nasty crap coming from that instance.

I federation broken? No comments erc. by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

It’s 100x worse than Mastodon but 100x better than kbin (so far)

Infosec Engineer AMA by jerry in c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

This is great! I should do one of these

I federation broken? No comments erc. by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 20 points 1 year ago

I am working on it...

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Federation and new community creaton is disabled (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Hi all. I’ve disabled new community creation and federation until there is a fix for the latest vulnerability

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Vulnerability fixed (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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As some have pointed out, there was a serious xss vulnerability in lemmy disclosed yesterday. The Lemmy team released a fix a bit ago and I've since patched infosec.pub.

Apologies for the problems by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

so far, so good!

Can we get onto v0.18 soon? 🙏 by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

we are on 0.18 now!

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Apologies for the problems (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Lemmy and kbin have been... exciting to set up and debug.

There is a new version of lemmy in RC right now that should fix most of the issues we've been seeing, or at least give error messages that indicate what is going on.

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/securitynews@infosec.pub

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