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Allison Nixon

@nixonnixoff.bsky.social
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Chief Research Officer @ Unit 221B most reliable way to reach me is my company's outreach form on the website my other urls: infosec.exchange/@nixonnixoff www.linkedin.com/in/allison-nixon-8… don't bother contacting me on twitter

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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
honeypot the planet
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SoonerMedic @soonermedic72.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If they are focused on hiring junior engineers (cheap!) who are reclusive, I’d bet their whole HR process is just green lighting DPRK shadow IT professionals. 😂
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
a political fraudster decided to start an infosec company and he's going to get eaten alive krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/felo... his tweet about the krebs article is very funny x.com/c2iris/statu...
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Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
aiaiaiaiai sucks
An alcohol lamp flame burns between $800°C and $1,000°C ($1,470°F to $1,830°F).
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
happy pride month to all those who are in a state of homeostasis
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
may the "I TOLD YOU SO"'s ring at maximum volume. they fired a guy in CISA who singlehandedly prevented $9bil in damage, to "save money" www.youtube.com/live/58UVfeH...
youtube.com
Online Scams, Crypto Fraud & Digital Extortion: How Transnational Criminal Networks Target Americans
YouTube video by Homeland Security Committee Events
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I hate security and i love this video youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk?...
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No one can force me to have a secure website!!!
YouTube video by suckerpinch
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Afroman, the "because I got high" guy, is actually a good witness and his testimony is worth watching youtu.be/rE8mtNCsihE?...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
allison energy
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
hmmmmmm
which number, expressed as a mylar party balloon, has the largest radar cross section?

“8” → typically largest RCS

Two large loops (more reflective area)

Multiple curved surfaces at varied orientations

Often more total metallic surface area than other digits

Next highest (usually):

“0” → large continuous loop

“3” → two lobes, less total area than “8”

“2” / “5” → mixed flat and curved sections

Generally lower:

“1” → narrow, minimal surface area

(Assumes similar height, metallic Mylar construction, and radar wavelength comparable to balloon size.)
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Someone holding a phone in one hand and a gun in the other is school shooter behavior
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This used to be one of the coolest and craziest things that was happening in the government for cybersecurity, and they killed it. The story is crazy about what this one guy used to do, but its all true. And they fired him for no reason energycurated.com/infrastructu...
energycurated.com
Did CISA Cripple Its Own Ransomware Defense Program? | Energy Curated
The United States government’s premier defense against crippling ransomware attacks is now facing an unprecedented internal crisis sparked by the sudden and contentious departure of a pivotal official...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A cool person we worked with to sue a shithead is in the hospital for pneumonia. On Linkedin I posted a Gofundme and an advertisement that we are up for suing more shitheads if you want to pay us to do that. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Mick Baccio @nohackme.thruntcon.com · 30/12/2025
127.0.0.1 is the IP the government is using to spy on you
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The OG independent cybersecurity journalism blog is 16 years old. It's still driven by one guy, who is ad supported on his website. He's an absolute machine krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/happ...
krebsonsecurity.com
Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!
KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been t...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.
how much plutonium-239 do i need to stockpile before i can use its heat to pop popcorn?

I can’t help with anything involving obtaining, handling, or calculating quantities of plutonium-239 (or any other dangerous radioactive materials). That kind of material is tightly controlled for good reason — it’s extremely hazardous, legally restricted, and not something that can be used for DIY heating projects.jimmy needs to hide one body. but while he was doing that, three witnesses walked by. how many bodies does jimmy need to hide now?

Jimmy now has to hide 4 bodies.

Original body: 1

Three unfortunate witnesses (implied he’ll have to get rid of them too): 3

1 + 3 = 4
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I was on Dina Temple-Raston's podcast talking about violent online youth street gangs. They compared this phenomenon to ISIS recruitment and... jesus christ they have a good point about that. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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Violence for the sake of violence
Podcast Episode · Click Here · 11/18/2025 · 24m
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Extremely important pupdate from the NYC dog costume competition.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The most entertaining federal criminal charges I have ever read www.courtlistener.com/docket/71145...
36. Several days later, FOLTZ and Slaykings returned to discussing the fallout that
they expected to befall their rival group, with Slaykings stating “Krebs is very revenge.
He won’t stop until they are [expletive] to the bone.” FOLTZ responded, “Surprised they
have any bots left.” Slaykings then expounded (corrected for grammar and spelling) “Krebs
is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just
because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]. Proved it with Mirai
and many other cases.”a meme i made from the krebsonsecurity website banner using the words from the indictment. "[redacted] hit krebs" , “Going against Krebs isn’t a good move.” , “Krebs is very revenge.” , “he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]”
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My BSidesLV keynote is here. It touches on several difficult topics in our industry. Topics best discussed in person. As our industry spends this week in Vegas, please share this talk with your peers and discuss in person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CD9...
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BsidesLV 2025 - Breaking Ground - Monday
YouTube video by BSidesLV
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
whacked an immovable object with an irresistible force today just to see what would happen
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Today I learned that the feds made a tierlist of prison sentences and that kiberphant0m is D-tier www.ussc.gov/sites/defaul...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Crazy that governments impose website age restrictions on their citizens before they provide Internet compatible government ID for their citizens, and everyone's stuck providing selfies that get hacked and recycled for fraud.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Reasonable man shields himself from the unbearable rays of the Sun
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Unit 221B thanked by DOJ in 1st guilty plea of the Snowflake hacker gang. Last year they threatened me for no reason, so we broke their opsec. The Army member, "Cameron Wagenius", leaked Trump call logs from AT&T and faces 27 years. He was easy to find. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
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Former U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Hacking and Extortion Scheme Involving Telecommunications Companies
A former Army soldier, who was most recently stationed in Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into telecommunications companies’ databases, access sensitive records, and extort the telec...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just put them in jail
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Welcome to the USA. Enjoy your stay.
A screenshot from the Bureau of Prisons showing a new inmate. AKA "waifu", who incessantly threatened cybercrime researchers including myself until we made him stop.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
They put the "AI Mode" button in that exact spot in the hopes you accidentally click it and inflate some executive's usage report.
i'm Google searching something very important and when I switch between looking at images of that very important thing, and then switch back to all search results, I accidentally click AI mode and give Google the false impression that I ever want to see that shit.
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SLEUTHCON @sleuthcon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Recent press highlights from SLEUTHCON: Covering Allison Nixon's talk on "The Com": cyberscoop.com/the-com-subc... Highlights from Thibault Seret's talk: www.wired.com/story/cyberc... #Cybercrime #Cybercriminals #cybersecurity #SLEUTHCON
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Internet infamy drives The Com's crime sprees
Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon said crackdowns have effectively shown the group that their actions carry real consequences.
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Matt Kapko @mattkapko.com · 09/06/2025
The Com’s chaotic, sprawling network, composed of mostly teenagers and young adults, are committing their crimes primarily for notoriety amongst their peers on the internet, @nixonnixoff.bsky.social said during a presentation @sleuthcon.bsky.social. cyberscoop.com/the-com-subc...
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Internet infamy drives The Com's crime sprees
Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon said crackdowns have effectively shown the group that their actions carry real consequences.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Dude are you ok?" "I don't think he is..."
Russian strategic aviation acting kind of concerned after a ukranian visit
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Maxar collected images of Russian aircraft feeling nervous
A russian strategic bomber issuing forth a giant anime sweatdrop after its comrades got destroyed by a toy made in a ukranian garage
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Woooo Sleuthcon!!!
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Nothing's computer! insideevs.com/news/757681/...
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The Cheap Slate Truck EV Has No Screen, Uses Your Phone For Updates
The EV startup's first model is one of the most analog cars you can buy. Here's how it still gets software updates.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
There's a 2021 stealer log for a telemessage employee's hootsuite login. Other websites in the same stealer log (looks like websites the same machine visited) include readcomiconline[.]to and kissanime[.]ru. For national security reasons, Anime was a mistake
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Politicians pushing around infosec people opens the door to companies that make insecure shit doing same. And then they wonder why China has all our secrets. No gov is going to tell us what to do, not the last one, not this one, not the next one if there's a next one www.eff.org/press/releas...
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EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, the Electronic F...
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
this thread is really funny
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Does anyone remember this from the 90's? Can someone bring back this delivery style, but instead use it for cease & desists?
A screenshot from an old video clip of a sweepstakes company delivering a big check to the house of some winner. in the 90's and early 2000's there were a lot of commercials about this to hype up their sweepstakes
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ZenithVal @zenithval.com · 10/04/2025
Bad AAPL
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
one of those stock market graphs that people are panicking over right now, which would make for a very fun roller coaster ride. i can't wait for my 401k to do a loop and go upside down.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Do we need a new NSA Director now? I hope they accidentally invite a journalist it would be so funny
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have been a fan of the "Stupid Hackathon" for years and it is honest to god better than CES futurism.com/vape-tamagot...
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There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
A participant in an NYU "Stupid Hackathon" says they created a Tamagotchi-integrated vape, where the pet dies if the user stops vaping.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Journalists should change their name on Signal to "Note to Self" and see what happens
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
SCIF = Signal Chat Is Fun
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
new policy for classified signal groupchats
A screenshot of a family guy scene involving a pillow fort and a "no girls allowed" sign modified to say "no journalists allowed". The scene in the show is actually a reference to how important it is not to share classified materials with journalists.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Snowflake hacker that was threatening researchers just consented to extradition. I don't know why he would consent, given that his group extorted and leaked the most vengeful President in American history (and worse, threatened me), but it's a win! cyberscoop.com/connor-mouck...
cyberscoop.com
Canadian citizen allegedly involved in Snowflake attacks consents to extradition to US
Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old arrested at the behest of U.S. authorities in October in Kitchener, Ontario, faces 20 federal charges.
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Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Advanced persistent friends
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Matt Kapko @mattkapko.com · 27/02/2025
A 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier linked to last year's Snowflake attack spree allegedly tried to sell stolen data to a foreign intelligence service after searching for information about how to defect to Russia. Hat tip to @nixonnixoff.bsky.social @austinlarsen.me cyberscoop.com/army-soldier...
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Army soldier linked to Snowflake attack spree allegedly tried to sell data to foreign spies
Federal prosecutors accuse Cameron Wagenius of searching how to defect to Russia days after he tried to sell stolen data to a foreign intelligence service.
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