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Montessori kid using her chaos monkey energy to manifest security impact

Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2012
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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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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: share.google/Hj44K0n5rC2zHhC…
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SITUATION DETECTED: METR estimates Anthropic is improving model capabilities at around 2× the March 2024–October 2025 rate, and may be running as high as 3×, with 80% of the current acceleration directly due to AI assistance, not compute scaling.
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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.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA2shell
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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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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    alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources     alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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YouTube link to the unprompted live debates and AI Hacker Jeopardy happening from now and in the next few hours! youtube.com/live/7kD--XEKrQ0…
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Wow! Big news today! Soon Discord messages will be indexable on Google. If you're in a public Discord which is discoverable, and has not changed its privacy settings, any messages posted moving forward can be found from search engines! Hooray!!!!!1 (I think this is very bad)
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Three hours in, the unprompted CTF is now at 24 kernel 0day submissions. The team is working hard on verification
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