It has been a long, good weekend of eating a shit ton of food.

The CFP for SO-CON 2026 closes in about 12 hours (11:59 2025-11-15)! Have a cool approach to attack path management (or awesome connector for BloodHound OpenGraph)? Submit ASAP: specterops.io/so-con/

I can tell I’m feeling at home at SpecterOps because we fought a bunch of specters in D&D tonight and when my DM told us I thought for half a second that I was fighting coworkers.

As I continue my path to understanding windows malware, I just read the hells gate white paper. My brain hurts.

This is one of the few times I wish I had a nicer camera than my iPhone camera.

Auroras are out in full force

I went to a bar for lunch and got golf ball sized cheese curds

Shout out to the guy at the gym who’s drunk off his ass lifting at 17:30 on a Monday.

Why did the whole Midwest get snow except for us 😩

He has been found safe!

My wedding band arrived! I have quite a while till I’ll be wearing it daily, but happy to see it in person :D

You ever just sleep till 2pm?

So about a month ago, I ended up doing my first foray into Nice Boots when I went to the Red Wing tent sale in well, Red Wing at the behest of a few friends. I needed new winter boots anyways, so I figured I’d get a set of Irish Setters and be happy with it.

Do I know what I am doing? No. Does it work? Also no.

Mmmmmm crunchy PDF

TIL Malort Advent Calendars are a thing shop-liquor.malort.com/products/202...

Love when shuffle brings me “The Encryption” Au5 when programming. Atmosphere.

I’m hungry as fuck and I smell my roast beef downstairs and I neeeeeed it.

Played a game of Terraforming Mars tonight. After my fiancée spent the last half hour shit talking saying that she was kicking my ass, I’m pleased to announce that I won 105-89

One of my favorite parts of wedding planning so far has been emailing people and saying “hey the cakes on your website look fantastic. Can we get a tasting scheduled?” Can’t wait to eat some of these.

Spent the day burning down some AD forests for students in CCDC. Always a good time ❤️

Another banger from the R&D team! @jimsycurity.adminsdholder.com put a ton of work into demystifying AdminSDHolder, finding out Microsoft’s documentation is incorrect and showing ways you can use AdminSDHolder to improve your AD hygiene and showcasing attack paths! specterops.io/blog/2025/10...

Guy at the liquor store is dressed up like the cat in the hat lmao

I get the best texts from my sister

We are COOKIN for CCDC this weekend.

WELCOME BACK KRISPY KREME ITS BEEN 20 LONG YEARS

I think I found a new jacket for this winter. My old Costco one is getting beat up. Problem is that I need to find time to get to scheels to pick it up 😭

I have now gone down 2 pants sizes since leaving $bigcorp

hot

Dear literally any email client. If the email is in the trash, I don’t want to read it. Stop showing me my unread count for stuff in the trash. Better yet, set it on fire so I at least get a nice, warm dumpster fire. WinterKnight

I love CCDC. It’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve done with my career so far! If you’ve got some spare time, please help Rob out!

They gave the stalwart an extra mag and I am so, so happy. I can basically spend the whole time on the bug front now just throwing lead into hordes of bugs with reckless abandon.

Frost in the grass. FROST IN THE GRASS.

Tonight I was driven up the fucking wall by dwords, sizeof, and null bytes.

I love when visual studio crashes on me. It’s the best.

The research team dropped a new PoC and a blog post about bypassing credential guard on windows. This should open some new doors for account compromises! specterops.io/blog/2025/10... PoC here! github.com/bytewreck/Du...

Helldivers got its (second) big bugfix and balance patch. Fixing a lot of the issues I’ve had with the game from a gameplay perspective. WE ARE SO BACK.

We dropped below freezing this morning and that makes me very happy.

I made tacos for dinner and I am very pleased with my choices.

Guys (and I mean guys. Especially white guys). We need to Do Better on this whole discrimination thing. Stop assuming because someone’s different than you, they’re getting unfair advantages.

Apparently OpenAI jumped into the browser game today. chatgpt.com/atlas

Man I fuckin love ice cream

I made chili.

Home Depot sells dragons 👀

CCDC is in full swing holy hell my evenings have just disappeared.

Oof. 8-K from F5 this morning.

Have a happy Windows 10 death day. Oh it’s patch Tuesday btw.