Taz Wake
@tazwake.bsky.social
DFIR & Threat Hunting Professional | Incident Responder | Certified SANS instructor | SANS Course Author | CISSP, CPP (etc) holder
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The Evolution of Pen Testing: A Conversation with Tim Medin
The Evolution of Pen Testing: A Conversation with Tim Medin - Phillip Wylie
About The Guest:Tim Medin is the CEO and founder of Red Siege, a pen testing firm that specializes in offensive security. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Tim is also a lead author of the enterprise penetration testing course for the SANS Institute. He is known for his expertise in kerberoasting and…
thehackermaker.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The Evolution of Pen Testing: A Conversation with Tim Medin
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~CFPTime is up again~ and only 12 conferences are loaded in it now; please load your conferences in CFPTime cfptime.org/upcoming
CFP Time - Indexing Security Call For Papers for Conferences and Workshops
Indexing Security Calls For Papers (CFP) for nternational conferences and others.
cfptime.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
~CFPTime is up again~ and only 12 conferences are loaded in it now; please load your conferences in CFPTime cfptime.org/upcoming
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Unlearning: animals aren’t all evolving into crabs
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Unlearning: animals aren’t all evolving into crabs
Now, I am actually a fan of Qatar Airways as an airline, but their constant, misleading, promises are annoying.
They constantly offer deals like this (20% off) to Privilege Club (their Frequent Flyer scheme) members. The important part is "Up To". The best saving I've ever had has been 1.2%.
They constantly offer deals like this (20% off) to Privilege Club (their Frequent Flyer scheme) members. The important part is "Up To". The best saving I've ever had has been 1.2%.
![Screenshot reads:
[REDACTED], the festive season is all about giving… but we think you deserve a little receiving too.
That’s why as a Privilege Club member you can enjoy an exclusive up to 20% off with code DECPC25.
This offer is ending soon though, and we don't want you to miss out - now’s the moment to book and make your holiday season brighter.
*Terms and conditions apply.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v3u6vil5djswyna7nrclvni4/bafkreic4kecza23eknphtqun7uhlg6rkgrcawjznsrkl7skzohtfio7yrq@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Now, I am actually a fan of Qatar Airways as an airline, but their constant, misleading, promises are annoying.
They constantly offer deals like this (20% off) to Privilege Club (their Frequent Flyer scheme) members. The important part is "Up To". The best saving I've ever had has been 1.2%.
They constantly offer deals like this (20% off) to Privilege Club (their Frequent Flyer scheme) members. The important part is "Up To". The best saving I've ever had has been 1.2%.
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Very seriously, are my standards too high? I expect people to understand they're on a global social media so are talking to people living in other countries, with different customs, accents/words, and food. I expect people to infer some basic meaning and understand if a topic is for them or not.
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Very seriously, are my standards too high? I expect people to understand they're on a global social media so are talking to people living in other countries, with different customs, accents/words, and food. I expect people to infer some basic meaning and understand if a topic is for them or not.
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as a person with adult children who still speak to me, have you tried treating your kids like people rather than property?
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
as a person with adult children who still speak to me, have you tried treating your kids like people rather than property?
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Fixed another broken old game.
Can you guess what year the newspaper was published?
www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.
Can you guess what year the newspaper was published?
www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.
Guess The Press
Can you guess the year from the front pages of old newspapers or copies of the UK music press?
www.monkeon.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fixed another broken old game.
Can you guess what year the newspaper was published?
www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.
Can you guess what year the newspaper was published?
www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.
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They tell us that LLMs save time and make things easier, but my experience is the exact opposite. LLMs are making research harder.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
They tell us that LLMs save time and make things easier, but my experience is the exact opposite. LLMs are making research harder.
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Unarmed by-stander, Ahmed el Ahmed, a fruit shop owner challenged & took the gun from one of gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. He went to hospital after being shot in the leg & shoulder by another gunman. Doctors have told his family that he should be OK
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Unarmed by-stander, Ahmed el Ahmed, a fruit shop owner challenged & took the gun from one of gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. He went to hospital after being shot in the leg & shoulder by another gunman. Doctors have told his family that he should be OK
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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my latest
Those opposed to the ECHR will never be satisfied by tinkering, just as Brexiters were never satisfied by the many opt-outs and rebates the UK received, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
my latest
In its weird drive to win over Reform voters who will never vote Labour, the Labour party is doing it's level best to make sure Labour voters decide to never vote Labour.
Honestly, I am lost for words as to what they are thinking. It feels like every major party is absolutely adrift now.
Honestly, I am lost for words as to what they are thinking. It feels like every major party is absolutely adrift now.
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In its weird drive to win over Reform voters who will never vote Labour, the Labour party is doing it's level best to make sure Labour voters decide to never vote Labour.
Honestly, I am lost for words as to what they are thinking. It feels like every major party is absolutely adrift now.
Honestly, I am lost for words as to what they are thinking. It feels like every major party is absolutely adrift now.
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"We have an appointment"
Chat with the police today.
You can only push a person so far.
@tazwake.bsky.social @dadalama.bsky.social @dltd.bsky.social @0kultra.bsky.social @jmkorhonen.fi
@gorangligovic.bsky.social
@homesen.bsky.social
Pasila Private [2025-12-12]
on.soundcloud.com/AN4bt19x6RWb...
Chat with the police today.
You can only push a person so far.
@tazwake.bsky.social @dadalama.bsky.social @dltd.bsky.social @0kultra.bsky.social @jmkorhonen.fi
@gorangligovic.bsky.social
@homesen.bsky.social
Pasila Private [2025-12-12]
on.soundcloud.com/AN4bt19x6RWb...
pasilaPrivate number (Unknown) [2025-12-12 17-06-32] [Incoming].m4a
Born out of the Monday after and the Wednesday just before. When everything is at its most grey and the only thing one can do to escape the blare of thinking is to clean the house. The housemaid hurry
soundcloud.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"We have an appointment"
Chat with the police today.
You can only push a person so far.
@tazwake.bsky.social @dadalama.bsky.social @dltd.bsky.social @0kultra.bsky.social @jmkorhonen.fi
@gorangligovic.bsky.social
@homesen.bsky.social
Pasila Private [2025-12-12]
on.soundcloud.com/AN4bt19x6RWb...
Chat with the police today.
You can only push a person so far.
@tazwake.bsky.social @dadalama.bsky.social @dltd.bsky.social @0kultra.bsky.social @jmkorhonen.fi
@gorangligovic.bsky.social
@homesen.bsky.social
Pasila Private [2025-12-12]
on.soundcloud.com/AN4bt19x6RWb...
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labour.org.uk/resources/ma...
You can till make a complaint about Akehurst here.
Drown them in complaints.
You can till make a complaint about Akehurst here.
Drown them in complaints.
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
labour.org.uk/resources/ma...
You can till make a complaint about Akehurst here.
Drown them in complaints.
You can till make a complaint about Akehurst here.
Drown them in complaints.
OK - on further investigation, this looks like a dead motherboard which was just incredibly co-incident with the patch timing...
Yay. Its a good job I don't need this for work....
Yay. Its a good job I don't need this for work....
So, it looks like the update managed to brick my pc.
Sweet.
Sweet.
So, 54 minutes before a call, I decided to allow windows to do an update that said "approximately 7 minutes".
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
OK - on further investigation, this looks like a dead motherboard which was just incredibly co-incident with the patch timing...
Yay. Its a good job I don't need this for work....
Yay. Its a good job I don't need this for work....
So, it looks like the update managed to brick my pc.
Sweet.
Sweet.
So, 54 minutes before a call, I decided to allow windows to do an update that said "approximately 7 minutes".
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So, it looks like the update managed to brick my pc.
Sweet.
Sweet.
So, 54 minutes before a call, I decided to allow windows to do an update that said "approximately 7 minutes".
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So, 54 minutes before a call, I decided to allow windows to do an update that said "approximately 7 minutes".
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
40 min later, PC still rebooting....
So much winning.
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Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
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Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.
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Glad I voted for the pro-human rights and anti-racism party last election.
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Glad I voted for the pro-human rights and anti-racism party last election.
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
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Laurence Turner MP just exposed Trainline for hiding cheaper ticket options AND charging booking fees.
Why are passengers paying extra to a company already handing millions to its CEO?
Serious question.
Why are passengers paying extra to a company already handing millions to its CEO?
Serious question.
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Laurence Turner MP just exposed Trainline for hiding cheaper ticket options AND charging booking fees.
Why are passengers paying extra to a company already handing millions to its CEO?
Serious question.
Why are passengers paying extra to a company already handing millions to its CEO?
Serious question.
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I need to raise €3,600 very very fast due to a complete collapse of human rights Law and one narcissist coercive control abusing lunatic. To avoid being homeless at Christmas and the loss critical evidence.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I know things are tough everywhere & it's the holidays. I'm sorry. Drowning with evidence storage costs and a fraudulent abusive eviction on the 19.12.2025 - somehow need to get storage costs, airbnb for xmas costs, basic survival. If you can help please, thank you.
www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I need to raise €3,600 very very fast due to a complete collapse of human rights Law and one narcissist coercive control abusing lunatic. To avoid being homeless at Christmas and the loss critical evidence.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Most of us will be baffled at the stupidity: deliberately imposing personal aesthetic preferences over inclusivity & communication. But it’s a good illustration of the importance of aesthetics to the right, & of the fact that authoritarians don’t just want to impose values but also pure preferences.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Most of us will be baffled at the stupidity: deliberately imposing personal aesthetic preferences over inclusivity & communication. But it’s a good illustration of the importance of aesthetics to the right, & of the fact that authoritarians don’t just want to impose values but also pure preferences.
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Do people in the USA really think there will be free unrigged elections in 2026 and 2028?
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Do people in the USA really think there will be free unrigged elections in 2026 and 2028?