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Lindsey O’Donnell Welch

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Government, Private Sector Officials Mull Telecom Security Woes - Decipher A year after Salt Typhoon's telecom hack, private and public sector officials discussed next steps.

"Communications networks are large, complex, and they require significant measures to be taken to secure them. So without some sort of accountability regime, we don’t really know what they’re doing, how effective it is, or how widespread those measures will be.”
decipher.sc/2025/12/04/g...

05.12.2025 21:17 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Why WarGames is Still Predicting the Future 40 Years Later - Decipher WarGames may be 42 years old but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever

Why WarGames is Still Predicting the Future 40 Years Later decipher.sc/2025/10/17/w... #decipher #deciphersec

17.10.2025 15:54 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽

16.10.2025 11:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NPM Package Compromises, Sen. Wyden’s Ransomware Letter, and Apple’s Memory Safety Advance Dennis and Lindsey discuss the targeted compromises of NPM packages (1:00) and the pointed letter that Sen. Ron Wyden sent to the FTC chairman asking for Mic...

Catch up on all the week's security news, including the NPM package compromises, the Wyden letter to the FTC, and the new Apple memory safety push, in our latest podcast episode.
decipher.sc/videos/npm-p...

12.09.2025 13:35 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1 - Decipher In the beginning, there was a hat factory. Factory is probably too grand a word for it, but the space that would eventually become the first home of L0p...

When we launched in 2018, the first piece on the site was part one of our four-part oral history of the L0pht. We were able to rescue that series from the archives. Here's that first part again. Enjoy!

decipher.sc/2025/07/24/w...

04.09.2025 15:29 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Salesloft Drift Fallout and SBOM Guidance From CISA and NSA
The Salesloft Drift Fallout and SBOM Guidance From CISA and NSA YouTube video by Decipher

New pod! We talked through the Salesloft fallout, the potential for a long tail from the incident, and a new shared vision on SBOM from CISA, NSA, and many foreign gov cyber agencies.

youtu.be/HCxV7Fsh7v0?...

05.09.2025 14:01 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So much of what was said here still rings true 10 years later

05.09.2025 13:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wyden Slams Federal Judiciary After Court Hack - Decipher In a scathing letter, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted the federal judiciary for its handling of a (second) hack of the federal courts’ case management system...

“The federal judiciary has repeatedly proven itself incapable of protecting the highly sensitive and confidential information with which it has been entrusted." @wyden.senate.gov

decipher.sc/2025/09/03/w...

04.09.2025 17:56 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

365 days since our last podcast episode, me and @lindseyodwelch.bsky.social are back and so is @deciphersec.bsky.social! Join us! We have lots of cool stuff on the way.

02.09.2025 14:54 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Decipher Lives!
Decipher Lives! YouTube video by Decipher

Hello friends! We're very excited to let you know....

WE ARE BACK!

Our first video and podcast is live now, and our new site is live as well.

Please have a look, share, and follow us wherever you find fine internet content!

youtu.be/2cg7ljpvzdg?...

02.09.2025 14:49 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Invisible until it breaks: The risk of cutting costs and undervaluing cybersecurity

www.fastcompany.com/91352486/inv...

25.06.2025 22:52 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Government internet shutdowns are quite common to silence dissent, but I think this is the first time that a government has shut down the internet in its own country as a defensive measure against cyberattacks.

20.06.2025 16:57 👍 85 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 1

*its

16.06.2025 23:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I didn’t know the depths to which Twitter could go in it’s unhinged dumpster fire cesspool-ness, but it surpassed my expectations this month

16.06.2025 23:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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First time getting warm+butter as a New Englander used to cold+mayo. It was eye opening

16.06.2025 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Everyone needs a cybersecurity guy

13.06.2025 00:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats!

03.06.2025 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tradecraft Tuesday | Infostealers: A Crash Course YouTube video by Huntress

Missed this week's @huntress.com Tradecraft Tuesday episode on infostealers? You can catch up on YouTube⤵️
www.youtube.com/live/pzjzdeA...

15.05.2025 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Post-exploitation activities observed stemming from the Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server flaw, in a nutshell:

www.huntress.com/blog/post-ex...

10.05.2025 15:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A win is a win

08.05.2025 20:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The fact that this would not phase me 😭

07.05.2025 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tradecraft Tuesday | Infostealers: A Crash Course | Huntress In this episode of Tradecraft Tuesday, we’re looking at the lifecycle of infostealers and walking through their operational pipeline from marketplace to deployment.

Register: www.huntress.com/upcoming-web...

07.05.2025 17:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some of the observations we'll discuss include:
-The operational pipeline of infostealers - from marketplace to deployment
-The infostealer "family tree" (and all the MaaS and distribution networks)
-macOS infostealers, and the impact of the Banshee Stealer source code leak

07.05.2025 17:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🎉 May Tradecraft Tuesday 🎉 Excited to talk about infostealers next week with Greg Linares as part of the @huntress.com May Tradecraft Tuesday.

07.05.2025 17:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m a big believer that the worst of human nature comes out in two places: on social media and on roundabouts

06.05.2025 12:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Tech these days

05.05.2025 23:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You have unlocked visual derision Taylor

23.04.2025 14:02 👍 105 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

Went to the #DBIR for the footnotes. Was not disappointed.

23.04.2025 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0