Montessori kid using her chaos monkey energy to manifest security impact
Minneapolis, MN
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Industry, please hear us. Autonomous attacks are here, at scale, breaching many organizations right this moment. Usually, with ARTEX and Cairn, usually through vulnerabilities.
A thread
Heather Adkins (@argvee) and I asked the industry to believe us…
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The best moments of @unpromptedconf start NOW. Follow for a new video every day from the three days of [un]prompted, where 101 speakers presented 81 sessions on two stages.
Tools may be replaced, but hackers are in the right place at the right time, inventing what comes next.
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Another week, another proof point for autonomous hacking - SoftBank. 7 min to pwnage.
It was a vulnerability, but it could have been a misconfig - I’m giving up that battle to focus on what matters.
And man, hearing the CEO speak vuln exhaustion.. feels
finance.biggo.com/news/2cb8f…
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We're cooked.
terminal2shell.com
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I’ve been nominated for the SANS Difference Makers award, as community champion of the year.
If you like, you could vote for me (and other solid candidates), here:
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30 years of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, creating modern vulnerability research, for all, and changing our industry forever.
Thank you, Aleph One.
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At DISC 2026? events.dragos.com/disc2026 - Reach out if you'd like to chat about Dragos research and runZero product things! Great talks and an amazing community of defenders. I'd post photos/highlights, except its not that kind of conference, and you have to be here to see them.
The most important skill in the age of AI?
Adaptability.
Being able to drop what is no longer true, no longer serving you and pivot towards what matters given the ever changing reality.
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🎙️ ARTEX - more like OurTEX am i right??
One of the biggest GTM wins during cybersecurity awarness month was this open source attack agent.
and now it feels like every disclosed incident is "ARTEX-driven!!"
So I wrote a quick primer / reminder: 👇
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📚tl;dr sec 353
🧑🏻💻 A Thousand Fewer Paths to Root - @OpenAI
🛡️ Kubernetes Security Logging
🤖 Post-AI Security Floor
tldrsec.com/p/tldr-sec-353
![[tl;dr sec] #353 - A Thousand Fewer Paths to Root, Kubernetes Security Logging, Post-AI Security...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2118023113388728320/W-_NmsIF?format=jpg&name=800x419)
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The supermarket chain thaw massacre
Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe reut.rs/3X1A0dF
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JUST IN: Michigan prisons preparing to deploy AI that predicts incarcerated people's risk of committing future violent acts, using the results to determine their security classifications.
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‼️ BREAKING: PolymarkeT users were drained through its own website.
A hijacked DebugBear monitoring script sold users' positions and sent ~$2.6M to one wallet.
Polymarket halted trading and says victims will be made whole. The wallet has since been emptied.
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🚨 GitLab: remote code execution via crafted regex in CI/CD config (CVE-2026-97229)
Exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) · EPSS 0.18
Patch → 19.2.8, 19.3.5 and more
cve.now/CVE-2026-97229
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
