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dpkg chopra
Jun 9, 2007

Fast Food Fight

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/alyssam_infosec/status/1538166123035824129?s=21&t=igMyLqd8kPyXyhUQKISXpg

lmao, they straight up tricked people
so they wouldn’t have drop out

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kaschei
Oct 25, 2005

Plorkyeran posted:

a c++ committee member was convicted for child porn, and is still on the committee and refusing to interact with them at in-person meetings is a coc violation
rape and child porn. They removed the convicted member as an organizer and official speaker from CppCon '21 then paid for their transportation, hotel, the president of the board introduced them as a speaker at an official community event, and they received a speaker gift basket for attending. Then same president told the member the names of the people who were asking the C++ Foundation to break ties, so he contacted them directly.

Then the foundation board met with the group that was asking them to sever and refused to say whether he would or would not be invited as a speaker in future. A bit later they clarified this to: "The individual will not attend CppCon for as long as their presence would be broadly disruptive to the conference."

all these details and more from the perspective of a member of the group that was trying to get the foundation to sever: https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

dpkg chopra posted:

lmao, they straight up tricked people
so they wouldn’t have drop out

kaschei posted:

rape and child porn. ... CppCon '21

yikes. might wanna think about changing the name of the conference too lol

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

found your problem!

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Kazinsal posted:

listen I'd be okay with whatever kind of juggling and rules lawyering needed to get richard "technically, nobody ever saw jeffrey epstein with those children" stallman thrown off planet earth. doesn't matter whose hand is on the metaphorical trigger

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

child porn procuring convict

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Beeftweeter posted:

yikes. might wanna think about changing the name of the conference too lol

qsvui
Aug 23, 2003
some crazy thing

kaschei posted:

rape and child porn. They removed the convicted member as an organizer and official speaker from CppCon '21 then paid for their transportation, hotel, the president of the board introduced them as a speaker at an official community event, and they received a speaker gift basket for attending. Then same president told the member the names of the people who were asking the C++ Foundation to break ties, so he contacted them directly.

Then the foundation board met with the group that was asking them to sever and refused to say whether he would or would not be invited as a speaker in future. A bit later they clarified this to: "The individual will not attend CppCon for as long as their presence would be broadly disruptive to the conference."

all these details and more from the perspective of a member of the group that was trying to get the foundation to sever: https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html

herb sutter must really like that sex pest jfc

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

i guess I never paid attention to the “community” behind c++ despite using it extensively and a cursory search left me more confused. are wg21 and standard cpp foundation related entities or not?

edit: ok it’s herb stutter running both and stroustrup is treasurer of the foundation so I guess that’s kinda moot

hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jun 20, 2022

Vanadium
Jan 8, 2005

leave it to the c++ people to interpret the wording of their CoC in such a twisted way that ultimately nobody is happy

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...
Because there's a wide range of possible creepy behavior, anything left undefined by the CoC becomes an implementation detail for the sex pest to worry about.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

this is the cppcon code of conduct

quote:

CppCon is a community conference intended for networking and collaboration in the developer community.

We value the participation of each member of the C++ community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the conference and at all conference events, whether officially sponsored by CppCon or not.

To make clear what is expected, all delegates/attendees, speakers, exhibitors, organizers and volunteers at any CppCon event are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct (CoC). Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

The Short Version
-----------------

CppCon is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.

All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks.

Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for CppCon.

Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the conference without a refund at the sole discretion of the conference organizers.

Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.

The Longer Version
------------------

CppCon strives to be a respectful, kind, diverse, and inclusive environment. Participants are expected to not be offensive or disrespectful toward others. They are also encouraged to not be too quick to take offense when none is intended but assume good faith when interacting with persons of different cultures, life experiences, and backgrounds who may have diverse ways of expression. The CoC exists to ensure we have a welcoming atmosphere, not to chill communication by trying to control how people express themselves as long as they are respectful.

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Exhibitors in the expo hall, sponsor or vendor booths, or similar activities are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.

Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate for CppCon.

If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.

No weapons are allowed at CppCon. Weapons include but are not limited to explosives (including fireworks), guns, and large knives such as those used for hunting or display, as well as any other item used for the purpose of causing injury or harm to others.

it should be obvious the problem with this if you have programmer brain

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

the short version isn't really much shorter than the long version, yet leaves out a hell of a lot of important points the long version covers somehow

qsvui
Aug 23, 2003
some crazy thing

hobbesmaster posted:

They are also encouraged to not be too quick to take offense

lmao

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

Plorkyeran posted:

a c++ committee member was convicted for child porn, and is still on the committee and refusing to interact with them at in-person meetings is a coc violation

is slugging the dude in the face considered "interacting"

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

that depends, is it an appropriate physical contact?

A Man With A Plan
Mar 29, 2010
Fallen Rib

Zamujasa posted:

is slugging the dude in the face considered "interacting"

Yeah, you're just conforming to the spec, if they needed more specificity in the behavior then they should have defined it.

Armitag3
Mar 15, 2020

Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.


who disabled garbage collection in CppCon

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Armitag3 posted:

who disabled garbage collection in CppCon

presumably hacked up template gc not able to deal with the "good buddy" reference cycle between the pedophile and organizers

OzyMandrill
Aug 12, 2013

Look upon my words
and despair

Armitag3 posted:

who disabled garbage collection in CppCon

C++ doesn't have garbage collection, you are supposed to not misuse pointers to child objects like normal people

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

what the gently caress

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

OzyMandrill posted:

C++ doesn't have garbage collection, you are supposed to not misuse pointers to child objects like normal people

seems that c++ is quite apt at collecting garbage to me, op

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Armitag3 posted:

who disabled garbage collection in CppCon

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

presumably hacked up template gc not able to deal with the "good buddy" reference cycle between the pedophile and organizers

Zamujasa posted:

seems that c++ is quite apt at collecting garbage to me, op

:vince:

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

can i get peoples thoughts on phishing sim campaigns? our org is currently doing a rather stupid knowbe4 one and I am not a fan of the practice in general. this is not being done to tick a compliance checkbox. purely for the love of the game. am i wrong in thinking about it this way? there is no 'goal' for the campaign, just good old 'user awareness'.

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



phishing campaigns are for when you need to prove to somebody that your org is vulnerable to phishing so that you can implement mfa or whatever. realistically, for an org of any reasonable size, phishing will work basically 100% of the time. sure, use awareness is great, but even if you reduce phishing hit rates by 90%, you're going from 5k to 500, or 500 to 50 - and that's still plenty of footholds to do whatever they want to do. you never get to the point where education on its own is enough. and if everybody recognizes that the org is vulnerable to phishing, there's not much info to get from it

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
if they're using real phishing emails that aren't clearly fake or pre-announced, then I think its fine. At best you'll get a few users who will learn from it and not click stuff. At worst you get a list of the users who are at greatest risk and/or a measure of the general risk of your employees. then you can take that and use it to recommend/justify further remediation.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Achmed Jones posted:

phishing campaigns are for when you need to prove to somebody that your org is vulnerable to phishing so that you can implement mfa or whatever.

this is the biggest thing.

also to start instilling the idea of asking the help desk if you aren't sure about an e-mail but if your testing team is dicks then you can fool most people easily

SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017

post hole digger posted:

can i get peoples thoughts on phishing sim campaigns? our org is currently doing a rather stupid knowbe4 one and I am not a fan of the practice in general. this is not being done to tick a compliance checkbox. purely for the love of the game. am i wrong in thinking about it this way? there is no 'goal' for the campaign, just good old 'user awareness'.

It's a necessary evil to scare users into complying with MFA/security hardening. Having a successful phishing sim will make even the most stubborn people think "Maybe the nerds demanding me to confirm logins every X days are not so wrong after all". The most fun thing about KnowBe4 or other equivalent is that they are only useful in the united states, last time i checked there are zero payloads targeting non-us locales so, using them worldwide, will end up with 100% penetration on the US hq and the remaining sites getting 0%, making the hq staffers look like fools.

SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jun 21, 2022

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


It's fun coming up with the payloads if you're doing it yourself though. "New Halloween costume policy" with unacceptable.docm or whatever attached

SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017

distortion park posted:

It's fun coming up with the payloads if you're doing it yourself though. "New Halloween costume policy" with unacceptable.docm or whatever attached

When we first tested our 365 attack simulator, we created the weirdest payloads (which have sadly been removed since then). Stuff like "Mosh pit corporate dress code change notification" or "Nigerian princes summit 2020 registration links", using our standard internal mail formats and i think i could have got a few bites if i ran it.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



I got one that was like "your desk is filthy and is costing us extra to clean. see attached photos (that are actually a link)"

anyway they go in a filter now based on the X-HoxHunt-Organization-ID or whatever header (thx goon I forgot)

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Carthag Tuek posted:

X-HoxHunt-Organization-ID or whatever header (thx goon I forgot)

oh that's a good idea i wonder what ours is

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Achmed Jones posted:

phishing campaigns are for when you need to prove to somebody that your org is vulnerable to phishing so that you can implement mfa or whatever. realistically, for an org of any reasonable size, phishing will work basically 100% of the time. sure, use awareness is great, but even if you reduce phishing hit rates by 90%, you're going from 5k to 500, or 500 to 50 - and that's still plenty of footholds to do whatever they want to do. you never get to the point where education on its own is enough. and if everybody recognizes that the org is vulnerable to phishing, there's not much info to get from it

this is basically my takeaway of it as well, although we are already enforcing mfa and 'suspicious login' verification. the ironic thing is someone actually fell for a real phishing attempt (replied to an email but didnt send anything sensitive) on the same day this campaign started, but the phishing attempt they fell for is nothing at all like the emails we are sending out.

it doesn't seem like there is any actual end goal other than 'increase user awareness'. there's no criteria for pass/failure for the org or specific security controls we are testing here. it feels like its just a reason to be assigning extra homework if you click on something. I've tried to stress this to the other guy on our security team, but he really loves this sort of thing. if our only findings are that 20 out of 1000 people didn’t see through our deception, then i have to ask myself what new actionable information have we gained? That each time, a handful of people will click a link designed to be clicked? If that’s all, then it seems like that wasn’t time well spent. I feel like the value of this stuff is massively overblown by companies like proofpoint and knowbe4.

Captain Foo posted:

also to start instilling the idea of asking the help desk if you aren't sure about an e-mail but if your testing team is dicks then you can fool most people easily

we do this too and our users are generally pretty drat good about sending stuff

post hole digger fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jun 21, 2022

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Just junk filter anything thats not from inside your org. people aren't worth communicating with, so restrict it to people who can affect your income flow

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

i mean, ive been trying to convince people to follow my lead by simply never checking their email.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

post hole digger posted:

i mean, ive been trying to convince people to follow my lead by simply never checking their email.

I have to click accept on the calendar invites for my scheduled maintenance, otherwise that would be my policy

Like, I've had my directors be "we sent you a gift card for a couple hundo for the good work, check your drat mail" lol

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

RFC2324 posted:

I have to click accept on the calendar invites for my scheduled maintenance, otherwise that would be my policy

i didn't realize you were a robot

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



post hole digger posted:

it feels like its just a reason to be assigning extra homework if you click on something. I've tried to stress this to the other guy on our security team, but he really loves this sort of thing

it's also possible that it's for fedramp or hipaa or whatever and the people negotiating with the auditors weren't able to get out of it. sounds like your coworkers buys into the utility, but sometimes even if everybody knows it's obnoxious and useless, you just do the thing because the alternatives (losing certification or dozens of hours in meetings etc) are worse

Ulf
Jul 15, 2001

FOUR COLORS
ONE LOVE
Nap Ghost
assuming you have a more real-time comm tool like slack or teams then you can just ignore email, you can just filter everything to trash and nobody will even notice or call you on it ime

realizing this was a boon to my career and overall mental experience

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

the best is running a pishing campaign then chiding anyone who clicked for ever clicking on out of domain emails

then sending everyone a mandatory security training from an out of domain address then chiding everyone for not clicking on it

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