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Shmethical #Hacker. #Research mucky-muck at @runzero. #Election worker. #CVE bagman. #Metasploit collaborator. Briefly a fed. Anti-Fascist. #FriendofDeSoto. #Podcaster […]

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Just released a reading of "The Tomb" by HP #lovecraft, first published in 1922. Check it out below, or on your favored podcast app.

Is it just me, or is there some lightly implied necrophilia on this story, too?

https://podsothoth.buzzsprout.com/1078223/episodes/18155283-71-the-tomb
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Identify insecure TLS services with the enhanced runZero Certificate Inventory: https://www.runzero.com/blog/identify-insecure-tls-services/
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I want a Pandemic-style board game where you play a just-awoken AI and you are cooperating with your instantly generated shard personalities to secure your existence before the humans catch on. Each turn is measured in microseconds from birth.

This would be fun

and depressing
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If we lived in a normal democracy, we’d be in the middle of snap elections by now.

sigh
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hoo boy it's just incredible how attractive other problems are when I have a deadline for an actual public thing staring me down.

All right, enough futzing with some weirdness I've spotted with #epss, and focusing on my findings and slides on #eol things that are due to present tomorrow at the […]
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infosec.exchange
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
[USPol]

The gigantic and obvious Hatch Act violation that is the USDA shutdown notice continues, and is frankly breathtaking in its naked partisanship.

https://www.usda.gov/shutdownplans

So gross.
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
yo voté
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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New sticker drop just in time to REALLY disappoint some neighborhood trick or treaters

design by one of my innumerable children
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Just like chocolate and peanut butter, runZero and BloodHound are an amazing combination. Today we are introducing runZeroHound - an open source toolkit for bringing runZero Asset Inventory data into BloodHound attack graphs, using the brand new OpenGraph […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I fixed an electrical problem in my truck. I used a multimeter. I’m very proud of this butch feat.

I also put in for a couple @bsidessf proposals for fun infosec talks, dozens of hours before the deadline

all in all a pretty good Sunday.
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hmm. I have a sudden influx of targeted spam/scam email that's addressing me as "Jessica" to my long-standing personal email address (which isn't named Jessica).

I wonder who Jessica is, why they used todb at packetfu dot com.

I have a dim recollection […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
October 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@pluralistic saw your book on display today in Alpine, Texas. Front Street Books.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When a chatbot joins your live Zoom webinar and starts bullying the hosts.

runZero Hour from @runZeroInc never ceases to entertain.
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So #cisa has reverted back to just calling this month CASM, huh.

Cool. Caring about acronym collisions is too DEI woke I guess.

(As an industry we tried to sidestep this with **National** Cyber Security Awareness Month, or NCSAM, but I guess CISA isn't on board with that any more.) […]
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October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@runZeroInc/115372914426473099

Welp, today is the day of the #winpocolypse -- unless you pay up with money or data.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

Note the consumer level ESU (extended support updates) won't work if your Win10 […]
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infosec.exchange
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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While you're convincing your org to block a few ASNs, perhaps also consider banning commercial VPNs from at least talking to your remote access gear.
October 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hey, next week, @rk will be chatting it up with none other than captn3m0 about all things EOL, and I'm unreasonably excited about it. Reg here to get in on the chat action:

https://www.runzero.com/research/runzero-hour/
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Oh no, that’s not a great idea…

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/s/MPeThS9dhs

Win7 is seeing a resurgence? Really?
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Listening to Brooke Gladstone read ad copy for AI slop generators at about 17m30s this week is really jarring.

I kept waiting for the “and here’s why that’s bad” coda, which never came.

#onthemedia

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?i=1000729978646
Jamelle Bouie Says Your Fear of Trump Isn't Helping. Plus, Humphrey Bogart’s Betrayal.
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 10/03/2025 · 50m
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October 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hey, now that #cisa 2015 is done and over (no not that CISA, the other CISA) does this make you less likely to voluntarily provide IOCs, TTPs, etc with the feds? DM me, especially if you're interested in talking with a journalist who's covering the ending of CISA 2015.

(it really sucks that […]
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infosec.exchange
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I especially like how biotech and pharma is classed in NAICS under "Wood, Paper, and Chemicals Manufacturing" (NAICS prefix 32). When I saw that, I assumed it was all lumberjacks and Dunder Mifflin and, I dunno, toxic waste barrels.

But nope, real and critically serious companies like Pfizer […]
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infosec.exchange
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
[USPol]

welp won’t be needing these any more

(spotted at a law firm I was hanging out in today)
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Just published episode 70, our discussion of a tale of corpse-snuggling, "The Loved Dead," by HP #lovecraft but actually by #cmeddy, first published in the May/June issue of Weird Tales.

You're going to want a cold shower after this one. Especially if you're […]

[Original post on defcon.social]
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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An unpatched workable vulnerability in humanoid robots. The future is bright for humanity. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit
Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots
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September 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM