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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · 25d

Stop what you’re doing and read this… don’t get surprised by what’s coming. It’s time to rethink everything you’re doing on cyber defense. H/T to Gadi and Bruce for partnering on this opinion piece. www.csoonline.com/article/4069...

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Aug 25

Did you buy it?

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today as part of our commitment to transparency in this space, we are proud to announce that we have reported the first 20 vulnerabilities discovered using our AI-based "Big Sleep" system powered by Gemini — goo.gle/bigsleep

Google Issue Tracker

goo.gle

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today @Google Project Zero announced a new trial policy: Reporting Transparency. We’ll now share when we report a security vuln to a vendor within 1 week including products + deadlines. Goal: shrink the patch gap + drive faster, safer updates for users: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...

Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition

Posted by Tim Willis, Google Project Zero In 2021, we updated our vulnerability disclosure policy to the current "90+30" model. Our goals we...

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Jul 2

Good article out from @danielmiessler.bsky.social on using AI properly. danielmiessler.com/blog/how-to-...

Why Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering Both Miss the Point

The debate between prompt and context engineering misses what really matters: clear thinking and vision

danielmiessler.com

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · May 23

Some excellent work by @craiggidney.bsky.social that reduces the number of qubits (in a quantum computer) required to break RSA by 20-fold. If you don’t have a migration plan to safe algorithms, now is the time to start one!

Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · May 23

I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now?

Yes, it's lower now.

security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...

arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · May 14

Zotero?

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Apr 27

It is still worth it to get a credit card that earns miles. Then you can spend those miles on buying an upgraded fare.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Apr 27

It’s not worth it to play the airline status game anymore. There are too many high-status fliers and the airlines are now making it harder to get it. There are no guarantees beyond paying for a business/first class ticket.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Apr 9

The pdf is safe

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good news: egg production is up! www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...

www.ams.usda.gov

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 31

There’s no better time for it… I feel like we are on the edge of another historical precipice where someone is hailing a new age of greatness whereby we will toss aside what we know now in favor of a perceived gleaming future. 🤮

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 27

Concur. I could see myself accidentally chatting with the wrong ppl from my contacts, getting them confused between one another. The usability is really poor.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 27

How do you like the polestar?

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 20

We will have memory safety… it will take many steps forward, over the long haul. Here’s an update from Chrome on replacing FreeType with a Rust based alternative. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...

Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.

developer.chrome.com

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 13

I can’t believe it’s already been 5 years… wow.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 12

Need to do the reciprocal benefits for Russia. They get all the rest too.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 12

Everyday is a good day to patch.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 7

So often, I see design docs and product pitches reference shoddy news articles, Wikipedia, etc and not apply the kind of scrutiny and skepticism Pat and Adam do. We need a solid repo of material. 2/2

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 7

While listening to @patrick.risky.biz and @metlstorm.risky.biz on this week’s risky biz podcast I dreamt up a nice retirement project: “Case Studies for Security Engineering”. Highly curated technical descriptions of incidents written in such a way that solutioneers can understand attacks. 1/2

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Mar 6

Good morning.

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Feb 23

Always easier to be objective (and less stressful) if it was someone else’s incident :-)

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ever wake up in the morning and think to yourself: wish I could do an official review of that incident. 👀

CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · Feb 20

#SaltTyphoon gained initial access to Cisco devices as part of the Chinese nation-state threat group’s sweeping attacks on U.S. telecom networks, the company confirmed Thursday in a #threat intelligence report. via @mattkapko.com cyberscoop.com/cisco-talos-...

Salt Typhoon gained initial access to telecoms through Cisco devices

The Chinese nation-state threat group primarily gained access to Cisco devices with legitimate login credentials, according to Cisco Talos.

cyberscoop.com

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · Feb 22

Exceptionally good analysis of the current geopolitical discussion re: Ukraine and Russia negotiations. x.com/nicholadrumm...

x.com

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Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social · May 2

It's #WorldPasswordDay!! At @Google we're celebrating the journey on deprecating passwords! We're happy to report passkeys have been used 1B+ times across 400M Google Accounts. We're also sharing how we'll use them to protect high risk users: blog.google/technology/s...

Passkeys, Cross-Account Protection and new ways we’re protecting your accounts

For World Password Day, we’re sharing updates to passkeys across our products and sharing more ways we’re keeping people safe online.

blog.google

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