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Principal Threat Poker @ Sophos X-Ops. Natsec/Infosec Editor Emeritus and now infrequent contributor @ Ars Technica. Ex Navy officer and actual […]

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I've made various improvements to CyberThreaterator over lunch breaks, while watching TV, and other non-work brain cycles. There's a plan here: eventually, I want to produce full threat briefs on demand for imaginary actors with IoCs and the rest of what […]

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A screen shot with the following text: CyberThreaterator The APT/Cyber Threat Name Generator Your APT name is: Doom Metal PotatoBeetle Sandals based Jeff Bezos-worshipping religious cul Motivation: will hack for food Modus operandi: fake malware alert scamming
July 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Night Herons nesting in Fells Point have gotten…numerous.
June 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Team building exercise.
June 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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For millenia these guys have swooped around marshes, creeks and ponds virtually unchanged (other than in size, possibly), the apex predators of airborne invertebrates (and in nymph node, of aquatic ones). Let's not f**k things up for one kind of evolutionary […]

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A dragonfly on a leaf.
June 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Oh hi Evinrude
A dragonfly with green eyes perches on a reed.
June 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Been on radio silence here for a bit. Things are going well. I have finished up the first portion of my onboarding experience at Cisco and am now getting myself up to speed on the ways of Talos threat intelligence. All the people here are awesome. I am […]

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A fledged fish crow expecting me to throw more peanuts out the window
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Mockingbird auditioned for National Bird, but couldn't keep the sarcasm out of his voice.
May 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Some of the initial contributions are bangers.
Details for vulnerabilities "Secluded Condor" (phpGolf) and "Liberated Kinkajou" (Telnet)
April 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A little 'Circle of Life' moment from this weekend: A female Cooper's Hawk swooped in and snatched a timberdoodle we were watching, just as I was getting the camera ready....
A Cooper's Hawk perched in Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, March 15 2025 The Cooper's Hawk has caught an American Woodcock. :o Cooper's Hawks are apex predators in the urban / wildlife interface of Baltimore. This one is a female, of a pair that nest annually in Patterson Park.
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Unsolicited Duck Pics.
A female Lesser Scaup in the choppy Masonville Cove, Baltimore. A pair of Redhead ducks (male and female) Canvasback and Ruddy Ducks (and some Scaup as well)
March 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Briefly considered. Wisely left at the thrift store. No time to go down the 8mm film rabbit hole.
A Bell and Howell Electric Eye 8mm movie camera found on a store shelf. The lens is a little dusty.
March 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A Northern Cardinal looks toward the camera from his perch, crest slightly ruffled as if after a rough night. Text around him says “can’t believe ‘Conclave’ got shut out at Oscars”
March 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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In a different sort of technology news, my latest batch of pottery got fired. Learned a lot from this set.
March 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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New frens
January 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Teams suggests you comply.
A list of Teams suggested responses to a message, all of them saying Yes, Yes! Yes, and yes! Yes, I can do that
January 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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There is a very specific set of fake person accounts--using images harvested from someone's social media or Gen AI to create a fake persona--targeting "Resistance," "Blue Wave," "Blue," and other Democratic Party aligned hashtags, trolling for center-left […]

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January 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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For those of you who have not been participating in the BlueSky grand experiment, a brief report from the battlefield.

I've been collecting, reporting and blocking as many fake accounts as I can. They come in three main varieties: retreaded scammers, fake […]

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January 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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My trusted advisor assures me that crowsourcing moderation on Facebook and Insta would be more effective than community notes.
January 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Sometimes the traditional way is thebest way.
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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My son keeps texting me Trump's reported cabinet picks for the lulz.
November 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Yep. That's about right.
November 7, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Seems apropos for today somehow.
November 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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I feel you, Feather-winged Beetle.
November 6, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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lol. Anyone have a Samsung Windows 7 tablet that needs a power supply? 😂
October 27, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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@thepacketrat.net viewable from the other side of the rainbow bridge tho
October 27, 2024 at 12:32 AM