Are you an Austin-area software engineer who writes Go (or aspires to become one)? Join us Wednesday, August 13, 2025 for two hours of lightning talks and discussion. This meetup is hosted by Capital Factory and runs from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT: www.meetup.com/atxgolang/ev...

The weird places we sometimes find ourselves ... Never did I think I'd be attending the Startup World Cup to listen to other companies pitch themselves, and at the Tokyo Regionals no less 😅 Life has definitely gotten strange, but not in a bad way!

The funny thing is how NTFS deals with fragmentation and how utterly ludicrous a modern SSD is under that doctrine.

“Location data is some of the most sensitive, revealing information that is generated by our devices,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @wired.com. “You can paint a very clear picture of someone's life with just a list of all the places they've been in their car.”

Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

Sometimes writing for yourself means putting a modern physics joke in your book for middle schoolers. Mr. Muffins is out now in stores!

What do you call a Linux user who uses "sudo" too much? A root cause of system instability.

Chris Hadnagy vs. DEF CON Lawsuit update 2025/02/24 It’s been a while since our last update - a lot has been going on behind the scenes - and with the discovery phase complete we have filed a motion for summary judgement asking the court to dismiss his lawsuit.

EFF’s @sveawindwehr.bsky.social joined @techpolicypress.bsky.social’s Sunday Show to discuss the first systemic risk assessments and independent audit reports from Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines produced in compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act.

I'm #Hiring!!! Looking for security analysts to join our Security Operations team. Fully remote with the opportunity to work a Hybrid model if you'd prefer. Take a look or share with your network. Job IDs: R0030423 R0030422 R0030421 epiqsystems.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Epiq_Careers...

Now more than ever.

CactusCon Kids is *BACK* on Saturday for CC13! We will have a hardware and coding station for a cool custom badge, a cryptography station, a lockpicking station, and a computer graveyard. 😎 Register today! https://buff.ly/4j9gzWZ #cc13

Slides and videos just dropped on the NIST Workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography 2024. Great material. csrc.nist.gov/events/2024/...

That’s enough Mastodon for this week.

T-MINUS ONE HOUR UNTIL EFF'S LIVESTREAM 🚀 Join us at 10 AM pacific time for a discussion about your rights to privacy and free expression under Trump and the 119th Congress: livestream.eff.org

Having just returned home from this the last #ShmooCon, I'm reminded again how grateful I am for the community that was built the friendships that were made, to the ShmooCon staff, the Potters and all of the folks that attend and have made this amazing event, and the legacy Thanks for the memories

What time is it? It's hurry up and wait for the last @shmoocon.bsky.social to kick off o'clock, only a few more days! Can't wait to see everyone there and enjoy, so to those preparing to start their journey to #shmoocon safe travels and see you all soon!

One of the finest hackers & humans to ever hack the planet needs our help. Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers on the other site) is lucky to be alive & we are luckier to be able to help him. Donate if you can, and please *share* to spread the word. gofund.me/27112e30

“Cannot stress this enough, if you believe you may have ever stored your seed phrase or keys in LastPass migrate your crypto assets immediately.”

I can't spend more than a few minutes on my LinkedIn timeline before I suffer brain melt. Saw this meme recently and finally understood why...

Oh no, who could have possibly predicted Recall would present security risks even with it's new "sensitive information" filter 🙄 www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

I will gift the 18 book bundle to the first 10 new cyber/information security professionals or students who DM me. www.humblebundle.com/books/hackin...

Oh look; me last weekend:

When you have cool friends that do strange and interesting things, a thread worth following

Courtesy of @nixcraft

So Windows folks got a new surprise recently, we finally have a replacement for the old RunAs with the new introduction of Sudo for Windows, first seen in the insider preview in February, it's now mainstream, lots of new things to consider 🙃https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/

I remember briefing this vulnerability to a few CISOs who collectively agreed it would never be weaponized. That didn't age well. arstechnica.com/security/202...

My son asked my why the whole world doesn't use a sinlge timezone That's when I knew he'd end up in digital forensics 😢

Decided to have a Rusty day today, what are everyone's favorite/most used crates or Rust usecases? I like the language and have been using it for awhile now, so always looking for new uses to explore! #rustlang

This is your friendly reminder to RTFM, trust me there is often someone who is happy to help you with your questions, but they get burned out answering the same thing publicly over and over when the information is readily available with a straightforward search

This Wired article on Russian threat actors exploiting WiFi to gain access to a nearby target is 🧑‍🍳🤌💋. www.wired.com/story/russia... Years ago I visited the NSA Cryptological Museum, and the docent told me about an old motel across the street from the base, owned by Russian expats. 🧐🧐🧐 Old = New

Choose your fighter. #DFIR

Things that need to be said that I feel like shouldn't be things that need to be said: If your answer to moving to the cloud is to just lift and shift what you've got, you're doing it wrong and no wonder your cloud bill is so obscene looking Being "Cloud Ready" is a thing!

Working on our next cloud talk! Topic of choice, Cloud Finance! Y'all need to quit being monolithic freaks and come over to the dark side of scaling container land, you definitely don't need that whole full server install and misc packages to run your lil web app workload

Till 9pm Come on by! Open Source Security On Tap Date: Tue, Nov 12 • 6:00 PM MST to 9pm Location: 147 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 www.eventbrite.com/e/open-sourc... With @controlplaneio @activestatesoftware and @kusaridev

But like really....why?

It's that time of year! Holiday Hack is Here! www.sans.org/mlp/holiday-...

Well that's a tad horrifying.... May also explain some things ... www.engadget.com/ai/google-ce...

Our team published details of a number of vulnerabilities in OpenText iManager that we discovered last year and reported www.yahooinc.com/paranoids/pa...

"Are you a high school student looking for #cybersecurity information and resources to be successful?" niccs.cisa.gov/education-tr...

Setting a goal of being more active here for myself as I'm trying to get back into making more public content again outside of conferences!

Red flags in AI legal tech: 🚩 there’s a legal AI company claiming to give legal advice 🚩 none of the cofounders or leaders are lawyers

I've been working with someone on a project recently, and it got me thinking, whatever happened to the state of database security? Is good'ol BCrypt/SCrypt on 'sensitive' fields like password paired with Full Disk Encryption still the extent? I've seen so few DB Security products or Native functions

LAST DAY to get the hacker-designed, @cisa.bsky.social -approved, totally solarpunk, @bsideslv.org 2023 SHIRT at this link: https://www.customink.com/fundraising/bsideslv-2023-shirts (We're also very close to $1337 so don't leave us hanging.)

Given this new void to scream into, will see how it goes, it feels like we have more and more voids coming up of late, so trying to find a home for content has become a new and interesting challenge!