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  1. Almost two weeks ago, attrition.org got a major overhaul. Not a single person noticed.

    11 months ago 
  2. PSA: If you are a security researcher and get threatened for your research, let us know.
    11 months ago 

  3. Had four people volunteer to help this evening after my request. Very cool of you guys. Almost restores a shred of faith in this industry!

    11 months ago 

  4. I need an Errata intern to do some grunt work today

    Any takers? FOR A GOOD CAUSE ETC BLAH BLAH (tm)(c)(r)

    11 months ago 
  5. New Errata Page: Security Industry Plagarism
    11 months ago 
  6. attrition.org, in the new bunker, cleverly disguised as a suburban home.

    attrition.org, in the new bunker, cleverly disguised as a suburban home.

    1 year ago 

  7. attrition.org will be down for a few hours shortly. moving it to a new undisclosed bunker.

    1 year ago 
  8. Errata Submission Guidelines

    The Errata Project is best run as a community project. The security industry is rapidly growing and impossible to monitor by a handful of individuals. The integrity of our profession and industry should be important and a priority to all of us. As disreputable characters operate in the Information Security arena, they potentially cloud the perception of our discipline and poison the minds of customers.

    We are always looking for more information related to Errata. We appreciate tips related to Certified Pre-owned devices, legal threats against researchers, bad auto-update mechanisms, industry charlatans, security company irony, security related spam or any security incidents that consumers should know about.

    Guidelines

    Please check our pages or search Google with “site:attrition.org” to see if we have the incident first. There are no restrictions or requirements on what you send. However, there are a few things to remember when sending material to ensure that we can use it:

    • Security related spam require the full headers for us to post
    • Include links to information, not just the text of an article
    • If anything is not for publication, indicate it clearly at the top of the mail
    • By default, we assume contributors want anonymity
    • If you send confidential material, warn us. We are not necessarily considered journalists by a court, and may not be able to provide the protection a large media outlet can
    • When submitting a new charlatan, help us with research! Provide as many links, articles and comments as possible. We simply cannot investigate every name thrown our way, and a single incident does not necessarily warrant inclusion.

    What qualifies an individual for ‘Charlatan’ status? Inclusion is subjective to a degree, but some of the things we look for include large scale plagiarism, “strong” media presence without credentials or work history to accompany the statements, repeated claims that are proven false with no indication they care or learn from mistakes, heavy use of FUD to promote themselves or services, repeatedly lying about aspects of their lives that have already been disproven, etc. A person who exhibits all of these traits in small bits may be included as well.

    We have a large backlog of material at all times. If you send something and it isn’t posted right away, bear with us. Some incidents are clear cut and quickly added. However, when adding charlatans or incidents that require context and history to explain, these can take time to research and draft and appropriate article. If you feel something may have been lost in the shuffle, feel free to contact us and ask or remind us of what you sent. We try really hard to produce quality factual research, but we are constantly dealing with lack of resources, most notably time.

    1 year ago 

  9. While Lyger is meeting his Life Coach, Jericho is working on posting a legal threat OSF received in April. stay tuned…

    1 year ago 

  10. To all those en route to the attrition.org BH/DC party at the OG. We are in the midst of 2000 #justinbieber fans @ Planet Hollywood. O_o

    1 year ago 

  11. The attrition.org BH/DC party is Saturday the 24th at the OG, time TBD.

    yes, we’re serious this time. but, nothing is free, show and enjoy.

    1 year ago 

  12. We wish we could #FF for everyone who contributed info for the Evans / LIGATT Errata updates the last 2 weeks. 1400 chars wouldn’t cover it.

    1 year ago 

  13. DNS issues with tumblr.attrition.org should be resolved. Slight fubar in config propagation between servers.

    1 year ago 
  14. State of the Attrition Address (redux)

    As you may *not* have noticed, Attrition has had a little bit of downtime lately. For the most part, this has been limited to business hours, Monday through Friday, from opening to closing bells on the world financial markets. It all began long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…

    The last time this happened, there was a slight issue with noise coming from the box. The problem had been dealt with swiftly each time; as the box made sounds signalling its impending doom, it was kicked. Notice that the previous “kicked” was not in quotation marks; it was literally *kicked* with a human foot to make the noise stop. This solution actually worked… for about a month. Much as the way that Cancer Omega kicks liberals, the noises soon stopped, but the whining soon started again. It was then decided that a new box would be deployed, and what we have been using since then has simply been called “New Forced”.

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    1 year ago 

  15. rsync -v -e ssh -az —delete —ignore-errors root@attrition.org:/home/web/ /home/web/

    let the box migration begin (for real this time)

    1 year ago