while holiday_season:
eat_cookies()
ignore_jira_tickets()
if family_member_asks_for_wifi:
deploy_guest_network()
print("Happy Holidays, world! May your builds be green and your salts be strong.")
Absolutely! Dave Stern and others who worked on or with the Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative, you have my sincere gratitude.
Amazon drones are now delivering packages in DFW!
Serious soldering! Kiddo will present her invention, the "Peace Pal", at the BSides DFW conf on Sat at 9:30am.
This project is part "Maker Community" & part "Mental Health Hacking". It has music, calming LEDs, upcycled parts, microcontrollers, vibe coding, and TSwift references.
See bsidesdfw.com
Reminder: Windows 10 is now end-of-support. A lot of risk registers are getting updated this week!
If you are around DEF CON today, join me at 5pm for “Sh*t Show Triage: An Honest Panel on Incident Response” btv-dc33.sessionize.com/session/966539
Don't blindly trust AI for cybersecurity management!
Many common Cyber Threat Intel metrics show busyness, not actual risk reduction.
AI is useful, but only when focused on the right goals.
Batten down the hatches! Between the panic about Sharepoint last week and Black Hat coming up soon, expect to hear a lot of cybersecurity hype in the near future.
There is a certain irony in DEFCON swag being co-opted for a very different purpose.
What can nerds do to keep a garden from drying out? Build a DIY IoT moisture monitor! Mine uses a $7 ESP32C3 and $1.25 sensor, logs data to my homelab via Wi-Fi every minute, and sleeps most of the time to save battery. Next upgrade: solar charging!
RSA must be coming up
Me: Copilot, do this thing.
Copilot: Do it yourself
Considering I wasn't in a call, I would expect it's providing no features. 🤷♂️
Why TF is Webex ML Host using 11% of my CPU at idle and more memory than the entire Webex app? 👀
Political uprising, barricades and scuffles with the military?
The news on South Korea is resembling Les Misérables.
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Let’s be real: No amount of AI can fix your broken security culture. Train your people. Build strong processes. That's your true defense.
In my expert opinion - as a Marketing major with 20 years of business experience - this new branding for Jag is what we call "Awful"
🔥 take: InfoSec vendors love selling you shiny tools. But if you don't have a great team that knows how to use them, you’re just lighting money on fire.
Looks awesome!
My friend Krypt3ia is still searching for a remote CTI role after being caught in the layoff cycle. He's got years of solid experience and technical chops - including LLM training.
If you've got leads, ping me and I can pass them along or share his resume. RT for reach pls.
"I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer."
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