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Steven
@heavens-reach.com
I do infosec stuff and sometimes photography - https://www.heavens-reach.com
3 trillion dollar company 🙄
January 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Windows is adding a feature called "Admin Protection." But to understand why it's needed and useful, it's helpful to first learn some history, and what UAC did and didn't accomplish.

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...
Evolving the Windows User Model – A Look to the Past | Microsoft Community Hub
 
techcommunity.microsoft.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
600 Ladder workouts 👀 almost 2 years
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Don’t sign your company domain up for vulnerability scanning services if you’re not on the security team with full approval… 🤦‍♂️
January 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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There is no evidence that phishing simulations work at all (and some evidence they may make things worse). If we're doing security that "feels good" we might as well worship an idol made out of piles of networking gear or something.

Separately, punishing users is the peak of stupidity.
This is why end-users hate IT/security teams.
January 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Holy shit they finally added cadence to the on screen stats 😮
January 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Microsoft might as well just shut down access to any support, what the fuck is even the point of opening a ticket for anything.
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
2025 goals:

500lb deadlift
5k run in 25 minutes
Buy less unnecessary shit
December 31, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Hot take: the cybersecurity industry wastes an incalculable amount of effort "remediating vulnerabilities" in code because a library used has some "vulnerability" that can't actually be exploited in the way it's used in the application.
December 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
7:30am using the loudest piece of shit 2 cycle leaf blower to blow snow off a driveway. Cool

I hate my neighbor
December 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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The bald eagle is actually the perfect mascot for America because its overwhelmingly disappointing when you grow up and stop believing all the lies people tell you about it
December 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Not new, but have not mentioned on Bluesky yet.

If you or someone you know aspires to be a SOC Analyst, check out my hands-on lab, "So you want to be a SOC Analyst?"

Thousands of people have been through it and the feedback has been 🔥

blog.ecapuano.com/p/so-you-wan... #infosec
So you want to be a SOC Analyst? Intro
A blog series for someone wanting to get a start as a SOC Analyst
blog.ecapuano.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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👴🏻*looks up at the sky, presumably for first time in adult life* *sees Orion constellation*
"It's Drones!"

👩🏽‍🔬 Um, no. Those are stars. You see --

👴🏻DRONES!!!

👩🏽‍🔬 No, seriously. Stars have always been there.

👴🏻*Gets laser pointer*

👩🏽‍🔬Oh no. What are you going to do with that?

👴🏻*Points it at airplane*
December 16, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
On the rental car shuttle I overhear, “I couldn’t smell or taste anything for 3 days, but i feel ok now”

😞
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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being a network engineer
December 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’
Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’
The electric car brand was once a liberal favourite – but the CEO’s embrace of Trump has led to an angry backlash As Elon Musk has embraced Donald Trump and various far-right conspiracy theories, he has left behind an aghast cohort of Tesla owners who…
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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once again, if there are any major household purchases you want to make, make them soon
".. During a radio interview Saturday .., Bessent said 'tariffs can’t be inflationary because if the price of one thing goes up -- unless you give people more money -- then they have less money to spend on the other thing, so there is no inflation.'"

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/b...
‘Huge relief.’ CEOs exhale after Trump taps Scott Bessent to lead Treasury | CNN Business
Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived an internal squabble over the role of Treasury secretary, a key position that will face almost immediate deadlines and pressures.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 12:41 AM
November 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM
you know bluesky is for real because all the shitty content stealing "science" accounts have shown up.
November 24, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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👇🎯 The government is not a business, the country issuing the dominant reserve currency in an era of unprecedentedly large global capital flows is not going to "go bankrupt," & excessively low marginal tax rates on billionaires are both an economic problem & a clear & present danger to 🇺🇸 democracy.
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 PM