A really important point the average person should understand is that "pew pew maps" are a marketing gimmick and in no way reflect any facet of actual reality. The map being shared on social media is showing traffic headed to any U.S.-related IP. Guess where the majority of the internet lives.
As an aside, I'm a fan of Fireeye's pew pew map. Again, all of these maps are garbage marketing gimmicks. But it's pretty.
I'm glad someone brought up @MalwareTech in this discussion thread, he is an excellent follow for anyone interested in cyber security.
Here's the CEO of Cloudflare laying down some good information about why this is a T-Mobile misconfiguration (my money is on some edge case in their Sprint merge): twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272....
And let's all appreciate #hugops in this trying time.
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Dang that Fireeye map is pretty.. "Let's play global thermonuclear war!" :)
Other good follows (sane humans):
@Cybergibbons & @TheKenMunroShow from Pen Test Partners
@TinkerSec professional, mildly anonymous social engineer.
@troyhunt aussie infosec dude!
@thegrugq seasoned threat analysis (and bad jokes)
@swagitda_ Kelly Shortridge - behavioural economist turned infosec guru - really interesting take on stuff
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A really important point the average person should understand is that "pew pew maps" are a marketing gimmick and in no way reflect any facet of actual reality. The map being shared on social media is showing traffic headed to any U.S.-related IP. Guess where the majority of the internet lives.
As an aside, I'm a fan of Fireeye's pew pew map. Again, all of these maps are garbage marketing gimmicks. But it's pretty.
I'm glad someone brought up @MalwareTech in this discussion thread, he is an excellent follow for anyone interested in cyber security.
Here's the CEO of Cloudflare laying down some good information about why this is a T-Mobile misconfiguration (my money is on some edge case in their Sprint merge): twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272....
And let's all appreciate #hugops in this trying time.
Dang that Fireeye map is pretty.. "Let's play global thermonuclear war!" :)
Other good follows (sane humans):
@Cybergibbons & @TheKenMunroShow from Pen Test Partners
@TinkerSec professional, mildly anonymous social engineer.
@troyhunt aussie infosec dude!
@thegrugq seasoned threat analysis (and bad jokes)
@swagitda_ Kelly Shortridge - behavioural economist turned infosec guru - really interesting take on stuff