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Dave Bittner
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Your friendly neighborhood cyber security podcast host. The Cyberwire, Hacking Humans, Caveat, Control Loop, Grumpy Old Geeks. He/Him.
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Yesterday's Cyber Innovation Day in Washington DC was a first-class event hosted by Datatribe.
I moderated a panel with my N2K Cyberwire colleague Maria Varmazis @maria and Daniel Whitenack from Practical AI. We'll have that session on an upcoming CyberWire Special edition.

#infosec
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thanks to the team at DataBee for inviting me to Comcast Connect in DC.
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In DC to emcee the annual DMV Rising event, hosted by Virtru.
#infosec
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The new 8X zoom on the iPhone 17 Pro claims "optical quality zoom" at 200mm, but seems to indicate only capturing a 12 MP image from a 48 MP sensor. So does that mean it's doing a crop on the sensor? In other words, is "optical quality zoom" just marketing […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Spotted at my local antique mall.
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy 4th!
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Okay, which one of you is responsible for this?
(Spotted at my local Maker’s Fair.)
#infosec
#defcon
June 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Folks, sometimes the jokes just write themselves…
June 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Does anyone else consider it a conspicuous omission that Israel is excluded from Microsoft's naming taxonomy for threat actors?
June 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Diagnosed and replaced a faulty power supply in a device for my wife.

Her: “How do you know how to do this? Is this because you had that Radio Shack 150 in one kit when you were a kid?”
Me: “Pretty much, yeah.”
May 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
They just used the word “phishing” in our county spelling bee, which I am emceeing.
Sadly, the contestant got it wrong.
#infosec
March 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You had one job, Coke Zero machine — one job!
March 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Strolling through my hotel, spotted an opportunity for a reverse Evil Maid attack.
#infosec
February 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The amazing @gcluley and I are both presenters at the ThreatLocker Zero Trust World conference currently in progress in Orlando, and had the opportunity to share a meal last night. If this is any indication, our presentations will bring our usual level of […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
February 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM