i talk often about space network stuff & the differences between terrestrial networks vs a network designed to blast off into space… but i have never actually designed one! you know who has? my brilliant mentor who will be doing a talk with me &
@patrickgargano.bsky.social in june at cisco live ☺️

SaintCon is incredible

We're excited to announce that the SAINTCON 2025 Call for Presenters will open on Monday, May 5.

SAINTCON encourages you to consider submitting to present during our October conference. It is a critical part of the experience, and we want to hear from you.

More details Monday!

Malonnaise on my sandwich

SANS ICS613 alpha was a huge success.

Super proud of what we’ve created — an industry standard for offensive security assessments in ICS.

See you in class.

⚙️ 🖥️ 🔥 🤘

Last minute updates to ICS613 labs and I’m happy to announce I have application-allow-listed myself into oblivion

The Army wants its installations to be energy islands Whether hit by a hurricane, a cyber attack ,or a drone strike, posts should be able to stay powered, officials said.

Interesting approach esp in light of Volt Typhoon and related activity. Long-term, reliable generation will be interesting for sizable facilities though - and not cheap
www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

my special kind of hell is:
unrecognized -h: did you mean --help?
unrecognized --version: did you mean -v?
unrecognized --help: did you mean -h?
unrecognized /?: did you mean --help?
unrecognized /h: did you mean /?
congratulations on -v, that means verbose, not version, here's 5 gigabytes of text

Let us know your experience with it, I’m super curious

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

Have you heard of Nightshade?

venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

I’m neither an artist or an AI expert, but I love the concept of this tool. Nightshade is practical offense against what I see as the worst impact of generative AI. Game on.

Venturebeat Article: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Nightshade: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

David Lynch's Lost Dune 2 Script Has Been Found A new report from Wired digs into Lynch's half-finished Dune sequel, and finds a dark, weird tale cut off in its prime.

Whoa.

Jim quietly smiled in response while looking away from the young software engineer, “You know what I did before this? Before coding?”
“No.”
“I was a chemical plant operator. You can’t just restart one of those. The fire, the pressurization, the catalyzation, it has to keep running.” 🧵

Sometimes when I pick up a rock I hesitate before tossing it, reflecting with a sense of grief and wonder that I may be the one and only human that ever holds and appreciates this rock right here

New @ github.com/corkami/pics
- PNG Plus, a Microsoft PNG w/ OLE chunk used by Picture It!
- WinHelp (.hlp)
- MS Compress variants.
- ASN.1

MikroTik routers reverse engineering and exploitation. Excellent research work.

Blog post: margin.re/2022/06/pull...

Slides (RECon): github.com/MarginResear...

#mikrotik #cybsersecurity

Collection of blog posts showing how #Rust code maps to assembly

eventhelix.com/rust/

#rustlang

If Erikson released a book that consisted solely of Fisher kel Tath’s poems I would buy at least 100 physical copies

Do it. Dream grimoire

Excellent blog post introducing how to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities in Linux (heap exploitation and mitigation bypasses)

github.blog/2023-12-06-c...

#Linux #cybersecurity

All my paperbacks are dog-eared on the bottom from placemarks, and dog-eared on the top to mark significant passages that thread together the tapestry of the tale or conjure experiences that can only be evoked by exquisite literary art. I always look forward to pulling an old book off the shelf.

Deadhouse Gates is still my favorite Malazan book thus far, but Toll The Hounds is exquisite if only for Kruppe and Kadaspala’s extraordinarily unique narrative linguistics.

Overall structure of a WAD file.

Dissection of a Doom Wad defining a single room level.

Doom's Wad format is simple and clean. #DOOM30

A massive nativity scene made of skeletons in someone’s front yard. As posted to the Facebook 12ft Skeleton Group by some guy named Tony Diamond from Ringoes NJ

The people in the Facebook 12ft Skeleton Owners Group are on an unsustainable trajectory of absurdity and I’m 100% here for it

if the ritual is free you are the sacrifice

Fucking Matilda had me sleeping with the lights on for at least three months. Cheesy, I know. But she stuck with me

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I finally saw the Lava Lamps of Entropy.