Living what I call "the sickness". A pentest with basically a *. domain scope. Thousands of apps to find and test. The work day has been so fun that I don't notice the sun going and it suddenly becomes midnight. This is what we trained for! This is the secret sauce. This is the sickness.

Seconded.

Fascinating tale of how Steve Guttenberg clearly social engineered his way into Paramount Pictures and eventually got himself hired. He built himself an office and used it for THREE YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a1y...

My kid and I are replaying #hollowKnight ahead of possibly buying #Silksong soon. They have blown me away with this epic gif they made!

I just assume that this fess is about me spamming everyone with part made songs a lot of the time.

Now that MITRE is defunded I wonder how the next generation will brag about things they found now that the CVE project (the centralised vulnerability leaderboard) looks dead. Sorry to anyone losing their jobs over this. We will enter vendor led split market for this and that is not good.

People lament the loss of the "old internet" and whinge about crappy monolithic spaces, but when they look for alternatives, they all fuck off to near identical platforms. It's because they're addicted to follower counts and are too cowardly to admit it and find a smaller space.

Good morning. Feel like the world is going to shit in some way? Well this is not the thread to discuss any of that. I would like you to reply with photos of trees growing new leaves, or dogs. Both just optimistically getting on with their days showing us how to roll. Thanks.

Thought experiment: A tool called "timechains" which lets you RDP onto a server existing in the year 2010. It will run continuously with minimum down time for patching etc until it was retired in 2020. What are you doing through your timechains server?

What am I? * Too weak and I might crack. * Too strong and you might forget me.

Was just gifted a collection of tea cups like Picard used in TNG. I wouldn't have bought them but by science I love them!

As penetration testers we cannot usually brazenly post about what our day is going to look like. Well today I will be picking up CRTO studying for the first time in a while. Quite happy about a little time at the firing range.

Anyone else have a stress dream where they are tasked with fixing up COBOL powering banking infrastructure in the future as the last human to have ever seen COBOL before? My exposure was once seeing it in a mirror.

You really need this today, and every day. Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axrl...

Raring to go for 2025? This is the day many (including myself) return to work. In every single way I needed that 2 weeks to sit and do nothing.

Customer called up to say "Probably the best pentest we have ever seen" regarding a report I delivered recently. Nice to hear but I think it makes me the Carlsberg of pentesting.

If we count home alone as the home tie, and home alone 2 as the away. Then we have to give it to Kevin as a 2-0 aggregate win over the wet bandits.

Traveling down to @bsideslondon.bsky.social today. I'll be giving a workshop on container and Kubernetes security with @smarticu5.bsky.social and @marionmccune.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon! Looking forward to catching up with folk down there.

For anyone who's attending @bsideslondon.bsky.social tomorrow, I'll be speaking at 10:00, and dragging some interesting sci-fi concepts into mundane reality when I discuss "Using the OWASP Top 10 to Save the Astronauts from HAL".

Today I have found that Microsoft has killed the ability to make a teams meeting in Outlook (classic). Motherfudgers this is why people hate you!

By Grabthar's hammer... What a savings.

I spilled coffee EVERYWHERE. The floor is Java!

I have cranked out a reasonable amount of exercise this weekend. Hoping for a good sleep to keep me ready for the week ahead. If I sleep poorly then panic attacks can be a thing. Just a reminder that you need to keep at maintenance or something makes you lie down.

Feeding the algorithm: I watched: Brooklyn 99 Rick and Morty Brahmastra: part one Spaceman In the long run I played: FM23 XCOM 2 Half life 2 I listened to: The Hampden Roar Wid Ye? Belle & Sebastian Metallica

The most wonderful time of the year. When it starts snowing a bit so I can enjoy all the names of Scotland's fleet of gritters. ooooh yes... Every time it is a joy. www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Hey y'all I am just getting some Bytes as it is lunchtime.

Been playing half life 2 again for a couple of hours while gobbling up the new commentary track explaining so many of the choices. What an absolute work of genius this game is. Still very playable and fascinating commentary.

Half life 2. Crate baby! It is a baby in a craaaaaate!

20 years since Half Life 2 was released. It just had a huge update and now it includes a commentary track I can learn more about the game through. Rise and shine Mr Freeman!

I posted this on twitter too but In the run up to the end of the year I've discounted both of my ebooks in a bundle to $7.99 which you can get here: leanpub.com/b/LearningTh... it’s a great option for students and people wanting to learn more about Security and getting into the industry!

I have had an epic year playing FM23. From starting a career with no qualifications I am now in charge of Ajax and just won the Champions League 3-2 versus Chelsea in the final. Had a near perfect domestic season. All wins apart from one draw. The board rated my year at B+

Tested an XML based API. No risk of XXE, but I did find that Burp suite has a max limit for injection points even when specified them manually in intruder first. I guess usually I am not hitting something in 79 locations at once! Also a WAF declared me a teapot (418 response) a lot. I make tea.

So we are announce things to feed the algorithm. This week I have played: Mass Effect 2, Xcom 2: war of the chosen, Football Manager 23. Watched: star trek discovery, ancient apocalypse, brahmastra part one, and Scotland beat Croatia at football!

Still buzzing from the win last night versus Croatia. Here is a fairly possible scenario.

Here for the start of the journey. Before market forces drive this app to offer timelines out of order, or force posts into your timeline from people you didn't follow. Which TBF might already be the case since I haven't used it yet. Here is hoping!