@swiftonsecurity.com do you have a 2025 updated version of the sysmon config you're famous for?

The entire tech industry right now

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

As vaccine skeptics grow in influence, this graphic is a striking reminder of how vaccines changed America.

Edward Tufte combined underlying graphics from the WSJ to make this. More details: graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Because finding the receipt for every single spare part of every single piece of equipment in every unit and every single nail in every single DoD building anywhere in the world isn't an easy fucking task. The Marines have passed their own audit as a branch.

How your email finds me:

Today is brought to you by the letter "ummm."

One thing I want to make clear!

If you set your username to a domain, you can change it later without any loss to your account.

Let me step through some scenarios:

I feel seen.

Here I am at BellingFest talking about the main drivers behind the spread of disinformation
youtu.be/UTG14MW6hOY?...

Shamelessly stolen from BratvaCorp

Russia ‘aggressive’ and ‘reckless’ in cyber realm and threat to Nato, UK minister to warn

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

"The strongest steel is forged from the fire of a dumpster" #CYBERWARCON

If you write Python scripts, make yourself a favor and use the Rich library to beautify their output 🐍 🧑‍💻

I am BEGGING everyone with elders in your life to talk to them about scams and how professionalized the cybercrime industry is 😮‍💨 Yes, a "financial advisor" who was recommended by "your bank" can have fancy websites tracking "your stock", and have employees that call to "advise" you on your stock.

I was too young. I did not have someone to command me how the world worked. That power is hope and incentive – not solely profession of despair.
Nobody above me were bad people in retrospect. I didn't engage right. My dreams and worry were not enough. I had to be Effective. And I didn't know how.

"good problem identifiers are often not good problem solvers" is a framework i like to keep in mind.

(i also think many of my directors have worked from the same principle before realizing that i happen to be the rare case of both)