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David something something darkside

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I work in security at a large tech company. I travel as much as I can afford, use sarcasm and humor a lot, and don't take myself seriously. I have 20-something years experience writing and breaking code & enterprise systems.

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Homeassistant helps a lot with the fragmentation.

20.02.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Defender Performance Tuning β€œAV is causing a performance issue…” is the dreaded statement everyone who has deployed an AV and/or EDR tool fears hearing. Sure the system owners should probably do a better job of stating what is…

"The new AV is causing performance issues" can kill your AV & EDR deployment. However, with proper performance tuning YOU could rescue the rollout. Check out how you can be the hero of your Defender for Endpoint deployment.
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04.02.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow the NHL scheduled an outdoor hockey game in Tampa FL, and the air temp during the game will be colder than the air temp in the arena the Lightning play in normally.
Canadian Space Lazer???

28.01.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Setting the GPO for Defender AV "Configure monitoring for incoming and outgoing file and program activity" to Enabled + bi-directional (full on-access) reports as Disabled? The correct Bi-Directional monitoring value is set, but this is worse than any of the double negative GPO settings.

20.01.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Have I Been Pwned: BreachForums (2025) Data Breach In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months lead...

New breach: A reincarnation of BreachForums was breached in Aug before being taken down by law enforcement agencies in Oct. Data included 672k unique email addresses across user, post and private message tables. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. More: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Breac...

11.01.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Clearly Ireland's threat actor would be Rainbow *something* πŸ˜‰

06.12.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I question the weather use. These sound more like the drink menu from SeΓ±or Frog's in a carribean cruise port.

04.12.2025 11:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Senate Dems cannot be trusted. They "got" what they would have had if they had supported the original CR and not shutdown the government. If this deal passes then it was the Democrat shutdown, and they will have to own it.

10.11.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll bet the grift are:
* Schrodinger's Threat Actor - they are present and not present in your environment
* Quantium Decryption - there is no encryption other than Quantium encryption that will protect you.

10.11.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an interesting way to frame cutting/limiting SNAP benefits as "weight loss".

07.11.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claim it's updated by AI, runs on Nvidia chips, provides a Secure DNS solution, and you've got the next billion dollar security solution.

29.10.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's DNS.

29.10.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cyber injunctions put victims at risk, experts warn Qantas stands by controversial legal tactic.

Cybersecurity experts are warning that injunctions – an increasingly popular legal tactic flaunted as protecting data breach victims – are putting people at greater risk of cybercrime.

More from @troyhunt.com, Cythera's Euan Prentice, Dvuln's Jamieson O'Reilly and Cyber Cognition's Michael Collins.

27.10.2025 03:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

We don't want to blow up the moon, we just need to destroy the AI swarm (which invented autism & woke mind virus) living inside of the moon siphoning off the white dwarf, also hidden inside the moon, before it destabilizes moons orbit and it crashes into earth. I saw it on TV so it's true.

29.10.2025 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ross: Bank left, bank left, bank left.
Chandler: Shut up, shut up, shut up!

23.10.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amsterdam's pancake game is next level.

21.10.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a golden opportunity for Neflix's series Lupin.

19.10.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weekly Update 474 It's New PC Build Time; The Qantas Breach (and Injunction); The Vietnam Air, Hello Cake and Prosper Breaches

Going live with my weekly vid in 30 mins! It's New PC Build Time; The Qantas Breach (and Injunction); The Vietnam Air, Hello Cake and Prosper Breaches youtube.com/live/AeSNiYP...

16.10.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are still asking this today you haven't been paying attention.

15.10.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We all know it's NEVER the network...

<whisper voice>
... It was the network...

14.10.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vance says ACA tax credits fuel fraud Related video β€” DC Bureau: Shutdown firings begin Vice President Vance said Sunday that subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)Β fuel waste and fraud in the insurance industry, as…

It's amazing how things that benefit individuals are always fraudulent.

thehill.com/policy/healt...

14.10.2025 02:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So often the statements about what the opposition is claimed to be doing is a reflection of what the complainers are actually doing or want to do.

14.10.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Have I Been Pwned: Vietnam Airlines Data Breach In October 2025, data stolen from the Salesforce instances of multiple companies by a hacking group calling itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" was publicly released. Among the affected organisations w...

New breach: Today, Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters published the breach of Vietnam Airlines from June this year. Data included 7.3M unique email addresses along with name, phone, DoB and loyalty membership number. 39% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Vietn...

11.10.2025 09:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically they were there for the annual 'Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace' seminar.

10.10.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.10.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 1453 πŸ” 536 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 35

They are all 6'3 and 224 according to WH Medical staff.

08.10.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In technology the skill I find lacking is "I wonder what happens if I click this." Ironically, also the skill that most cyber security experts fear. #curious #cybersecurity

07.10.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@nedpyle.com I'm assuming you are still here in FL today, and you might think (again) "Hey, it looks great out there for a walk" or maybe the AC in your hotel makes you want to take a "thaw out" walk to the conference center. You might be right for 0.2s, but NO! Take an Uber.

07.10.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Teenage kids can do better fakes with AI video 🀣🀣🀣

07.10.2025 11:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Better argument would be: Can you tell me your bank so I can call their customer support line and ask for a password reset?

At least you would be playing with higher odds of success.

07.10.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0