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Haha, just 5 minutes ago I read a story about Iranian 'hacker' who wrote a ransomware note in Microsoft Word, so the file metadata contained his full name :)
by 988747 4y ago
Haha, just 5 minutes ago I read a story about Iranian 'hacker' who wrote a ransomware note in Microsoft Word, so the file metadata contained his full name :)
- chubot 4y agoSimilar SecOps problems happened to both John McAfee and the Silk Road founder. As far as I remember, McAfee shared an iPhone photo with location metadata when he was in Belize, so American authorities were able to track him down. The Silk Road founder had some sort of PHP coding error which led police to his San Francisco location. That is, you could simply visit the Silk Road home page and his location leaked. So yeah criminals aren't better at SecOps. They're just more reckless than most people...
- Operyl 4y agoIt was actually Vice that did the McAfee leak, with a Vice employee phone. [0] [0] https://www.wired.com/2012/12/oops-did-vice-just-give-away-john-mcafees-location-with-this-photo/ https://www.wired.com/2012/12/oops-did-vice-just-give-away-j...
- chubot 4y agoAh OK, thanks for the source
- peteradio 4y agoEh? I thought silk road guy had old stack overflow questions with same alias or something.
- rsync 4y ago"As far as I remember, McAfee shared an iPhone photo with location metadata ..." This reminds me of the workflow I use for publishing pictures on my website: magick convert IMG_2673.HEIC -strip -quality 80 -shave 10x10 -resize 91.1% -attenuate 1.0 +noise Uniform out.jpg ; exiftool -a -u -g1 out.jpg (where 80 is a random number between 75 and 85 I choose at the time and 91.1 is a random (real) number between 91.0 and 91.9) You cannot exiftool purge a HEIC because it breaks it - you need to exiftool purge the resulting jpeg ... also, weirdly, -attenuate needs to come before the +noise switch in the command line.