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  • This isn’t the Arch logo file as it’s been redrawn to make it 3D. Blackarch have always used the original design but red and with a sword.

    My guess these are fan made stickers given out / sold at conferences. They could be fan stickers for Blackarch but they also could just be red Arch stickers for the fun of it.

    Redbubble is full of the stuff. It’s pretty typical to see playful project logo stickers all over conferences that people have ordered online. My buddy buys a load of these off Redbubble to stick on laptops people leave around at cybersecurity conferences:





  • Very much this. Watch a few chefs on TV / the internet and just trial and error. Cooking is a skill like anything else and you simply need to put in the time to get experienced.

    I do highly recommend you own a wooden chopping board, a Mercer Culinary Chef’s Knife (or better), and a 1000 grit whet stone for sharpening. A sharp knife makes cooking easier and more enjoyable. And a wood board is kinder to a blade and is surprisingly more hygienic than alternatives.


  • It already is pretty rampant, however most Linux admins have minimal if any detection strategy.

    Additionally, while there’s plenty of binaries about like VoidLink, almost all campaigns against Linux hosts target SSH, or RCE vulnerabilities, and deliver shell scripts that orchestrate the attack.

    Why compile a binary when the shell has everything you need? The threat models are pretty different between Windows and the *nix world.

    When you look at botnet composition, they’re usually made up of outdated Linux hosts with SSH open with password-based authentication.

    Seriously people, switch to key-based auth and disable password auth entirely.


  • It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.

    This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.

    Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).

    Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.