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oicaton “Schadenfreude” Google Trends Spike

For some reason the 30 day window only currently shows data up to and including September 29th.

oicaton AttackerKB: A community for discussing, analyzing, and prioritizing threats

Rapid7 have started an open-beta of AttackerKB, a community to discuss, analyze, and prioritize security vulnerabilities.

I've posted the blog about it instead of the direct link as I think it provides some valuable context.

The direct link for the site is here: https://attackerkb.com/

I thought this was something that the community here would be interested in as I see a lot of insightful comments regarding the latest hyped security vulnerabilities, take the other days comments on thunderspy as an example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23137979

oicaton When Lightning Strikes Thrice: Breaking Thunderbolt 3 Security

There is a nice write-up about this on attackerkb. If you're not familiar with it it's a community to provide assessments of vulnerabilities and point out which are worth stopping everything to patch and which are mostly harmless. It's currently in open beta. Main site: https://attackerkb.com/ Thunderspy assessment: https://attackerkb.com/topics/mPaHZgsUvk/thunderspy