When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification

As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit

Slack's shame mode while I'm OOO on PTO is on point

Excited that Sublime Security will be hosting a webinar with @johnhammond.bsky.social on newer email trends. Attackers are shifting to low volume abuse of legitimate services like opportunistic abuse of legitimate services and calendar phishing. sublime.security/events/trend...

The BSidesCharm CFP is accepting 50-min and 20-min talks. So far, less than 20% of submissions are 20-mins. I don't know who needs to hear this, but shorter talks have a higher likelihood of being accepted ...

Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best

A gift to myself is fixing my voice. After years of public speaking it took just one car accident w/ yrs of recovery to completely change my speech Now, w/ presentations being scheduled, I realize that I need to fix it. A lot of muscles to retrain, and looking for good resources

This is the fun of my Friday evenings...

I use a chrome extension to remove shittified posts from LinkedIn, such as people liking things. LinkedIn has now continually banned me from using it on any platform.

When you use your personal email for a work project and end up screwing yourself for 24 hours... New distraction task, find out how my scripts hit a 2000/day limit so quickly

Today was my 8th time under anesthesia within the last year. Joked with anesthesiologist about having a frequent sleeper card to punch while I'm out. Get 10 and get a free breakfast at hospital café 😂 (because each requires fasting through breakfast)

The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood

I had some time to work on the RE Rust Tickler challenges from @HuntressLabs recent CTF. Specifically, I wanted to focus on @vector35 Binary Ninja's TTD implementation Over weekend I made some quick write-ups on how I approached these easier challenges. github.com/Rurik/CTF/tr...

AI is going to take over the world!

I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight

AI - Master of the backhanded compliment

LinkedIn: AI is going to take over the world! Be prepared Twitter: AI is kinda helping. It can do some cool things Me: If Claude was a person I would be in jail for aggravated assault

The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis! (and fits well on my UW monitor)

Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way

A gorgeous start to GrrCon

#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ... I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time

Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly. And playing with process tree output ... As I do all my best work from hotel rooms.

When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it. Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ...

10 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow." Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI."

For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂 Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use. You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot.

Home from Vegas and recovering from sickness. But left with a lot of memories. It's been years since I was properly out and I really missed seeing all my friends.

And cue the random taxi drivers with "DEF CON? So, my phone and all my accounts are hacked. How can I tell if it's a foreign government?" questions

The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2. Spread the word…

My love to the @bsideslv.org team. Being a ginger, and not a day walker, there was a real risk of me dying from the sun. So they gifted me a safety package with umbrella 😂

Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist

Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work!

Exhaustion: When you spend two hours trying everything to inject a DLL into a process to drop data, in every which way possible, and then realize you're working on the wrong file.

Vegas will be fun and pleasantly crushing next week. Eight days, four events, and giving two talks For friends I haven't seen since pre-COVID, I'm now sober (still drink at bars) and walk with a limp but am still the same ginger you know and love ... now with long curly hair!

Slide deck for 20-min talk is almost complete...

As someone who over-relies on emojis to ensure wrong tone isn't sent, that an automatic Windows update killed emoji panel is frustrating Microsoft admitted the bug then put fix in an optional update (image rolleyes since emoji is broken) learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... So, go update

Making my life difficult by committing to a theme for a presentation by converting all images into 'stickers' Dozens and dozens of them.

Vegas party invites are starting to go out. Respect to the effort.

TIL the melting point of a laptop screen internals is roughly 200*F/94*C. Surprisingly, once cooled down, most of the screen returns. Permanent damage but not unusable

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To understand authoritarian government regime change one must look further back in time to similar structures. Most notably, when the AV industry colluded to classify benign cracks and trainers as malicious. In this TED Talk I will (1/16)

That moment you realize you had deleted a crucial VM snapshot last month because you assumed your talk wouldn't get picked up ... and it did. Self doubt FTW

I'm very excited to be accepted to speak at @bsideslv.org this year! Keeping Our History Alive: The Hacker’s Guide to Sticker Preservation I explore the role stickers play in hacker culture w/ a scientific focus on best methods to reuse old stickers to find your tribe in a crowd.

The biggest culture shock in moving from a global tech corporation to a startup is that there is not a No Hello rule.

I've had this game on pause for most of the week just because I don't want to rebuild the cheat table again

New project is underway ... First set of supplies have arrived Got a lot more fun stuff coming ...

After an hour of comparing specs at midnight to overnight a new CPU, sometimes Claude just tells you what you need to know best. Cutting through BS marketing of Ryzen 5 v. 7 v. 9, 5500 v. 5600 v. 5600x v. x3D, and no Reddit PC Master Race pre-judging your decision.

This is the first time a hard drive diagnostic has me staring at the clock and sweating...

My son asked to borrow my SUV ... I think I made a mistake

I approve of the cybersecurity themed beer.

Phone forensics poster child #Cellebrite allowed misreporting that it cracked the San Bernardino terrorist iPhone for the FBI, when in fact it was Azimuth. But the Azimuth exploit developer then cofounded offensive researcher Corellium, just bought by Cellebrite, retconning it closer to true.