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Father. Geek. Former award-winning journalist. Security researcher. Board of directors . CMO . Tweets are my own. Member:
Indianapolis, INsteved3.ioJoined October 2008

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100000% this I brought up #infosecstaples 4 years ago. It's a huge problem, I think and the "pay what you can" training helps TONS, but the industry needs to do more too. But....how?! twitter.com/InfoSystir/sta
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Long thread but serious talk. Seeing a massive problem in the security industry today. We have brand new candidates lacking "hands on" experience coming into the workforce and finding it extremely difficult to find a job. 1/10
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Everyone seems confused about all these layoffs "they just raised a bajillion dollars!" "ransomware is on the rise, business can't be bad!" "they're a unicorn!" none of that matters
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Favorite #RSAC moment: asking a person in their booth about their professional org's Cyber Executive Membership and they replied "Well you have to qualify for that" in *that* tone. Way to make a stupid assumption and ensure I won't join your organization.
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It is better to be second and right, than to be first and wrong.
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PSA caused by recent events: *CTI consists of being the voice of reason, clarity, and being precisely right. *It’s never about being first. *We must carefully avoid causing a panic. *Ignore the noise. Focus on facts. The @CuratedIntel community handled things impeccably
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PSA caused by recent events: *CTI consists of being the voice of reason, clarity, and being precisely right. *It’s never about being first. *We must carefully avoid causing a panic. *Ignore the noise. Focus on facts. The community handled things impeccably
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damn... is this a chain of failures or just a single failure?
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Catastrophic failure at an aluminum extrusion line. Looks like an overpressure event and the oil itself (over a drop ceiling no less) open a portal to a demon dimension…
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Excited to be the host of 12 live broadcasts from our booth 3416 this week at #RSAC2022 Join me on SANS YouTube + LinkedIn this week as I talk w/ the voices of our #cyber community incl + others #rsa2022 #Livestream
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A reminder so you don't miss out! We will be at #RSAC2022 from tomorrow, June 6 until June 9. We will be keeping you updated with live, 30-minute reminders during RSA. Click here to view the schedule and set a reminder: ow.ly/6TXG50JnAaM.
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Looong day. Have to get used to traveling again. Good news though is that when I get home, I have a new Oakley mask waiting for me thanks to a tip from
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If I was a bad person wanting admin access on a bunch of streamer machines (top notch hardware, probably a lot of crypto wallets) I’d be looking into compromising OBS build/supply/release chain. Running as admin seems to be the SOP
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Louder for the folks in the back.
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Corporate Infosec sends a phishing test email, I click, and somehow I'm the asshole because "[I] failed the test; had this been real it would have destroyed the company network"? If me clicking can destroy the network, I'm not the one in this conversation who sucks at their job.
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I present to you the official trailer for the new Beavis and Butthead movie coming to Paramount + on June 23rd. The brand new series will follow shortly after, along with all the old episodes.
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