Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:
timb_machine@infosec.exchange
<p>push(@fediverse, "Adversarial Engineer"); # i hack in Perl</p>
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Giving UNIXSocketScanner a well needed update... Stay tuned.
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(email composed by , Personal Assistant to )
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Occasionally you find companies who delete inactive accounts on their platforms. This is always a pleasant surprise.
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The models know nothing about what football team I support, but lots about my research corpus. Silly bots.
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One day I want to go back through my witterings on social media over the last 2 decades and tug at some of the threads.
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Are "HACK THE PLANET" t-shirts responsible for multi-modal prompt injection into the agents at world leading AI labs?
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Interesting Git repos of the week: Detection: * https://github.com/CiscoCXSecurity/SOC-Cockpit - one of my team's tools for managing the human elements of a SOC 🤖 * https://github.com/karim852/KUMO-Domain-Recon-Tool - gather DNS based OSINT * https://github.com/Ethan-Andrews/ThreatIntel-Aggregator - do you have an unhealthy addiction to DNS, IP addresses and hashes? * https://github.com/alexandreborges/malwoverview - @alexandreborges@infosec.exchange plays in all the sandboxes * https://gi...
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Running threat-crank to update https://github.com/timb-machine/attack-ti with v19 data. #threatmodelling
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Yikes'd the mainframe today. Remote authenticated access to the job journals as the vendor. #greenscreenblues, #redteam
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I have achieved sausages.
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🎉 Another year, another change request training completed! ✅ I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully completed my Change Request Training for another year. 📚💪 It’s always great to refresh the knowledge, sharpen the skills, and stay up to date with the latest processes and best practices. Here’s to continuing to learn, improve, and embrace change! 🚀 #ProfessionalDevelopment #Training #ChangeManagement #ContinuousLearning #LearningAndDevelopment
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A contribution from KDE on the definition of responsibility: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Maintainers_and_Contributions (The EU AI Act is absolutely something people should be mindful of.)
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It's interesting to note that there are (tiny) bits of Debian for which I am *still*, for all intents and purposes, an upstream and/or debian/* copyright holder.
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"Our AI broke out of the sandbox" is the new "my dog ate my homework".
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Pleasantly surprised that onedriver's auth_tokens.json has sensible permissions.
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Spent some time today, discussing reverse engineering, encouraging my mentee to dig into the next level of Ghidra and explaining how IDA search worked and why not everything was a string... Also how FUN_ and LAB_ are derived.
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Some people will tell you that PQC resilience is a maths issue, but I'm arguing it's a hygiene issue.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116992339665635678 It's not really random if it's not from from the location of getrandom(), instead it's just sparkling CPU state data...
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What a good time to be coming back to Debian: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 Hope it passes. #debian
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Forgot how much I enjoy DJ Shadow. Reminded myself by sticking the Entroducing CD on...
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Interesting links of the week: Strategy: * https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/ - @Edent@mastodon.social discusses government funding of open source * https://zeltser.com/ciso-leadership-lessons - @lennyzeltser@infosec.exchange on being a CISO * https://thecontractor.io/bugcrowd-researcher-philosophy-thoughts/ - JC calls out BugCrowd * https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021 - perhaps let's not trust agentic AI just yet? Threats: * https://blog.nviso...
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I'd kinda forgotten what games can be like. but building my first personal laptop in the last decade or so, I've installed vitetris and the rogue-like angband.
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Curry.
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Thank you to all the resistors, capacitors, ICs et al for your hard work last week and for not failing when we needed you most. #emfcamp, #emfcamp2026
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Don't get me wrong, the food at #emfcamp is fucking excellent but nothing beers waking up in your own bed, making a cup of tea and the scarfing down bacon sarnies. #emfcamp2026
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@badge@social.emfcamp.org If I buy all the spare parts from the online store and the new 2026 bits (both already done), do I need the 2024 green front board or will it work without? If I do, do you have any spares on site? Asking as I gave my 2024 badge to someone who missed out and I'm trying to bootstrap a replacement from the spare parts...
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On hold music "I want to break free..." whilst in the queue for the shower :) #emfcamp, #emfcamp2026
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Found a wristband, so if you could all check the whereabouts of yours before I have to involve orga, @info@social.emfcamp.org, lost property and site security... #emfcamp, #emfcamp2026
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Sore feet. #emfcamp, #emfcamp2026, #nullsector
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At the end of the beginning (shower queue) and can confirm that it /is/ finite. #emfcamp, #emfcamp2026