Backdoor penetration test
Deep penetration testing all his ports
“I’ll suck your dick if you click this link.” Has a different ring to it.
Dang, IT attack simulations are getting intense.
Same as it ever was. The uppers fuck up and labour has to do ethics and security training.
I recently received an email from the office of Marco Rubio reminding me of the importance of ethical behavior as a government employee. My eyes couldn’t have rolled back further in my head when I read that.
We have like 8-factor authentication. VPN, Yubikeys, auth apps, Face ID. I swear upper management does not have to do all this bullshit.
I also recently had to take a mandatory training on insider threats. Apparently being good at your job and also complaining about your job are two signs of an insider threat. Both of those apply to me, so I’m wondering if I should report myself as a possible insider threat. It doesn’t seem as fun as fucking a Chinese spy though.
Edit: also being bad at your job makes you an insider threat. So I guess you just have to be entirely mediocre, not too good, not too bad. Do just enough to get by, but don’t do too much. Or too little. Any outlier is an insider threat. Conform. Don’t be different.
They do by default, but if they bitch they get exceptions. Because they are in charge.
Everyone inside your order is an insider threat. Just like everyone outside of it is an outside threat. The point is to ID/flag people who are are disproportionately more risky than the baseline standard of risk. The FedEx guy making regular deliveries isn’t a flag, but if if he shows up at 2am and hangs out for an hour, yeah that’s weird and you should investigate that.
Do as I say, not as I do!
Some companies are just as ethically bankrupt all the way down to the mailroom.
Once, I worked at a place that had, and I kid you not: “Ethics awareness training.”
Said presentation had a few slides dedicated to mandatory legal matters and that was it. Ethics? Training? Awareness? Nevermind all that, did you know that we’ve always had Eurasia as a loyal customer? I didn’t stick around for very long.
The training is not for you. The training is to protect the company.
If anything ever happens that results in some kind of legal action, the company can say they gave the employee the training and the employee successfully completed the training, therefore we did all we could to prevent this and we are not liable. So then it all falls on you.
I took a very similar presentation from the shadiest company I was ever employed by, specifically that “gifts and other favors” are generally guidelines to be followed by local customs. I.e. bribe away as long as you aren’t in the United States. Weird as fuck for a company that solely does commerce in the United States to have murky guidance on this very clear issue.
My role here was very brief, they hired me for a licensed role and then paid me as a customer service rep, so I quit immediately after my first paycheck was about $3,000 short.
If the leaders don’t take accountability or ethics seriously, why should the employees?
because they can get fired. the leaders/owners can’t.
Why is my company’s cybersecurity training limited to simulated phishing emails and online courses?
Maybe next year’s cybersecurity budget should include some for hot-looking models (of every gender).
Penetration testing just got another meaning
And additional threat layers.
And those added layers actually have the benifit of making boundary traversal more difficult.
Training failed successfully.
IT security here. We tried, the CFO keeps denying our requests.
c-suite doesn’t take those trainings. typically they will get all sorts of exceptions from IT too, because they are in charge.
Only the peon workers get secured/locked down IT stuff.
also hot babes are not going to bonk you for your company secrets unless you’re in executive management.
also hot babes are not going to bonk you for your company secrets unless you’re in executive management.
or at least have access to some spicy shit in your job.
I have to wonder though, do those types even know how to get access to source code or data? Seems like the grunts would have better access to that. Or maybe they are googling “what is git clone”, “how to run sql query”?
Doesn’t matter if they know how to, what matters is they have access. The person that uses their access to steal stuff certainly will know how to do it.
Fortunately, I am far too ugly and too poor to be a security risk.
You can be ugly and poor and a security risk. If you are insecure enough and lonely enough to fall for the honey pot then out goes the security.
If you are secure enough in your ugliness and too busy eeking out an existence then a honey pot won’t work because you know their interest is your body of work not your actual body.
Some things never change
Hanging out with grandpa.
Gotta deploy the “ugly” test in all such matters:
Would this situation be sus if the other party was unattractive to me?
You would not believe how many things this filters out. Sales, advertising, cons, youtube videos, instragram, tiktok nonsense, the list goes on.
It would be less suss if they weren’t attractive, or at least anywhere near his own age. (Idk how old she is. Dont flame me if she’s 50)
someone that looks like that, I’m taking them to pound town.
he’s so old and frail, it doesn’t even look like he could fight back.
Something something you had me in the first half
To be fair, I’d fall for this too. Zero chance I’m turning her down
While being very old and married? Okay i guess
Not sure if you are making an argument for or against?
I mean if they’re into it it’s one thing. If the consent from everyone isn’t there (in this case the wife) then that’s where it gets icky.
These people never feel to old for shit like this.
There’s hooking up and then there’s hooking up with someone you’re in business with and helping her do illegal shit at the risk of your job.
With a golden parachute worth hundreds of millions, I’d be risking my job everyday.
Golden parachutes for golden showers.
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Could’ve been me tbh
CEOs are the most targeted, and the least likely to doubt their own decisions.
Yeah, most of the NVIDIA employees are millionaires. I’m sure they’ll be ok.
*Source, I do know a NVIDIA employee and he’s well off now.
At least two amazon workers are millionaires too, i assume they all are
If you look up median, or average, net worth of Nvidia employees you will find that according to internal survey, at least 76% of employees are worth over 1 million dollars, with 50% being worth more than 25 million.
they own like 3 GPU or something?
at least
Shit, I mean they only have like 3 departments that actually need staff with their manufacturing pretty much entirely automated. Purchasing, sales, and r&d. Purchasing is likely a stressful job there and probably paid worse than the others. Sales is dwindling as they move more of their sales to long term b2b contracts. They probably have less people on that team than they used to, and those people are likely in charge of very large accounts. Then they have a very large very well paid r&d department.
All of this makes me wonder how many employees they even have. It can’t be that many when compared to more traditional manufacturing industries.
It’s mostly because of stock awards as part of compensation packages.
If you get $50,000 in equity each year and the shares are worth $20 when you were awarded them, then they balloon to $160, you just earned $400,000 for each year you held on to. These numbers are all made up and just for reference, but this is what some of these hardware company employees experienced.
Workforce Breakdown
• Research & Development (R&D): Roughly 31,000 employees (about 74% of the workforce) work in R&D and engineering.
• Operations & Support: About 11,000 employees handle sales, marketing, operations, and administrative roles.
• Geography: Approximately 55% of Nvidia’s workforce is based in North America, with the remainder distributed across regions like South Asia and East Asia.
this data is from revelio labs, and seems to be acked up by Macrotrends and Yahoo Finance
