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🗣 Rob Rosenberger Profile picture
@vmyths
Sep 17, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In its halcyon days, "Vmyths" provided resources the #antivirus industry couldn't muster

In this thread each Wednesday, we shall peruse the Wayback Machine to enjoy #JOKE virus alerts (NOT hoaxes) that amused us from the 1990s through 2005...
JOKE VIRUS ALERT (not a hoax)

"NSA printer virus (April Fool story)" (aka "Iraqi printer virus")
web.archive.org/web/2005121005…

And see the follow-up!
web.archive.org/web/2018082215…
JOKE VIRUS ALERT (not a hoax)

"JPEG virus alert" (aka "GIF virus alert" aka "Graphic file virus")
web.archive.org/web/1998120517…

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Apr 11
The Pentagon's @DAF_CDAO office should have long ago prioritized its dissection of current AND PAST Air Force #cyberwar doctrine to see where it would have gotten U.S. airmen killed in Ukraine's land war.

But HAF/A6 has a problem: 🤦

They don't ponder doctrine like HAF/A3 does.
"Wait a minute, Rob. It's not @DAF_CDAO's job to ponder doctrine. The DAF has an air staff dedicated to that task!"

NO, THEY DON'T.

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Sooooo… Let's begin with a quick assessment.

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Dec 4, 2023
I want to revisit this supposedly rhetorical question.

Historically, we in #cybersecurity labeled traditional events "cyber" simply because the players were computer experts, e.g. Robert Hanssen was the world's first "cyber spy" because he identified a local computer vuln and…
…installed a password cracker on his work computer and used a Palm PDA.

Now we believe *every* spy is a #cyber spy because they all use computers in some way.

So, we've gone back to the lazy way of calling them just "spies" — but NOT for the right reasons.
We did what the cable & satellite industries did: they ✌️adjectivized✌️ themselves for adding channels to our TVs.

Cyber has improved all sorts of things, but in all honesty we're like @BASF. We don't make the things people use in their daily lives; we just make them better.
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Wow! I'm high on life after a follow-up physical at a Navy clinic where I got tossed onto an exam table with my blood pressure checked 3 times, after which they did 2 EKGs, then took my blood, etc. etc.

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Jul 26, 2023
1/7
 It pains me to agree.

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 "we need HR's permission to do what you're asking."

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Monday would be #NickoSilar's birthday. Our industry spouts an #UrbanLegend that she died in a hospital #ransomware attack … yet the truth is a bit complicated for our collective reductionist beliefs.

Let's study the facts surrounding this baby's tragic death, shall we? https://t.co/TVbwbQ7wTJ
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First, I need to caveat my role in this sad affair. I've offered my expertise pro bono to the law firm representing the attending physician who delivered #NickoSilar on that fateful day. My specific goal is to protect Dr. Parnell from Springhill Medical Center's legal team.
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I must admit it proved no easy task to pick Dr. Parnell over Nicko Silar's mother who, in truth, needs no expertise I can offer.

Maybe help Springhill Medical Center's CISO?

Nope: SMC has already thrown Dr. Parnell under the bus to protect themselves & their CISO.
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