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Lesley Carhart

@hacks4pancakes.com

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I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires. ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️‍🌈

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · Mar 25

I have a Short Stack on BlueSky as well as Mastodon and you can use it to get some news n stuff about the ongoing cybersecurity apocalypse if you want bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3h

If you can't get the degree, then everything is the same but a lot more of the general IT work and all the other stuff to make a lateral career move later. The military is a possibility if that's your thing.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3h

Get a degree in CS or computer/network engineering. Pick a general niche in cybersecurity, preferably less popular. Get your basic IT certs. Get a generalist IT support role. Get your second-tier certs. Network like hell for a couple years. Keep up self-study. Participate in the community.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3h

People salty that I am gatekeeping - I am literally trying to keep them out of paying a bunch of money to skeevy organizations who will not help them land a job at all in the collapsing cybersecurity job market.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3h

People don’t realize how badly and how fast the market is collapsing

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 9h

There are certainly good -courses- that can supplement a strong IT foundation and existing experience and credentials. Especially on targeted topics. But if it sounds too good to be true it is. You’re not landing a SOC job on a 6 month bootcamp, these days.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 9h

I guess I haven't clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3d

I’ve keynoted before and this year I’m working on bringing ICS village there.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3d

I feel like I should see more of Australia, the pacific islands, and Asia in 2026. What conferences should I submit papers to?

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3d

Governor JB Pritzker v
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This morning, the Trump Administration's
Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. They will pull hardworking
Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort to protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.
This demand follows unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents. Yesterday, Kristi Noem's and Greg Bovino's masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart. None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.
I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois. State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people's ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights. I will not call up

exercise their constitutional rights. I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump's acts of aggression against our people.
In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 3d

Political cartoon - General. “m i insulted… “

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

Meme: mfers be like I’m an alpha male
Ok bro, tell me about your low penetration power
Wave diagram

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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 9d

Nation-State hackers exploit Libraesva Email Gateway flaw securityaffairs.com/182552/hacki...

Nation-State hackers exploit Libraesva Email Gateway flaw

State-sponsored hackers exploited a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, in Libraesva Email Gateway via malicious attachments.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this:

We salute you.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 12d

Oh and in one of my favorite places to hang too! Say hi to the nice folks there and tell them one of your hardware needs sends their regards. I may not know them but they're my people.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 12d

Decided to drop by #BSidesCsnberra today.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 13d

I will - they open 45 days rolling in advance and fill up within a day or two,

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13d

The worst thing we can do at this moment is be cynical.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 14d

“Did you take five minutes to look?”

Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 14d

I wrote an article about what I wish juniors in cybersecurity would ask for and contribute when asking for a mentor and career guidance, in light of the terrible tech jobs market.

tisiphone.net/2025/09/24/reas...

#Cybersecurity #Infosec #MentoringMonday #Mentoring#Cybersecurityy#Infosec

Reasonable Expectations for Cybersecurity Mentees

Most of my audience is on the more senior end of the career spectrum. As a result, a lot of my writing about careers is aimed at senior cybersecurity professionals, encouraging managers and experie…

tisiphone.net

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 15d

Just a reminder for the Melbourne cybersecurity people that we run a meetup for OT cybersecurity education at our Cremorne office every other month. There are community speakers and food & drinks. I am setting up the snacks right now: meetu.ps/e/PbvYT/6xCRH/i

September Community Night - Nick Tangey & Stephen Z, Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

There will be two thirty-minute talks, pizza, and drinks. **Nicholas Tangey - Principal Industrial Hunter, Dragos.** Nicholas Tangey is a Principal Industrial Hunter at th

meetu.ps

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 15d

I'm doing an AMA on cybersecurity careers and OT DFIR, etc for the next hour on Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCare...

Share, #cybersecurityCareers

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com

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PancakesCon Infosec Conference @pancakescon.com · 16d

Thank you for attending #PancakesCon this year. I know the schedule change was rough, and we had an incredibly crew of volunteers, speakers, and village organizers who put up with that. Our talks will be posted over the next few weeks, and we really hope you had an amazing time and learned a lot.

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PancakesCon Infosec Conference @pancakescon.com · 16d

Its 2:20 AM and I have a rum and coke. And still more TimTams. Next talks are "Patient Craftsmanship - Finding Malicious Users and Embroidery" or "A Primer on Windows Access Control & Creating a Compelling D&D Villain"
Do you want to be a DM, or make fancy clothing? Come hang #pancakescon

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CyberTaters @potato.software · 16d

Listen up people, @pancakescon.com is on right now!! Head to pancakescon.com/2025-confere... to join the fun.

#potato #infosec #conference #pancakes

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