InfoSec Professional | Former CISO | When not vetting vulns, ranking risks, or pushing patches, you’ll find me boating, fishing or 4x4ing in the great outdoors.

Joined March 2009
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We've done this with great result. Nothing like having memory evidence available almost immediately as part of investigations.
3 Oct 2025
With Volcano, security teams can automate the entire workflow of acquisition of memory and select files to deep analysis to automated alerts that directly point to signs of memory only malware and attacker activity throughout RAM and key artifacts sources from disk.
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Can you imagine how long it would take to load the weather.com site in a browser on dialup?

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Just when you thought #splunk licensing couldn't get any more expensive...
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Imagine what city council would do they ever saw a barbed wire or razor wire fence. So unsafe and dangerous.
Austin's new safe fence regulations are now in effect. Here's an example of what the City of Austin will and won't allow. The spikey twisted wire top can no longer be built in Austin. The rounded knuckle top is fine for a new fence.
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I remember the old Flight Sim versions well all the way back to the Commodore 64 version. This is one of the early PC versions, but not as old as ‘82.
If only Costco employed people to stand by the door and check receipts, this could never happen.
Investigators are looking for help identifying a woman who walked off with more than $3,000 worth of items from a Florida Costco without paying for them. cbsaustin.com/news/nation-wo…
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Truth
In security, logging and alerting without action is the equivalent of “thoughts and prayers”.
These emails to Tesla execs have been really uplifting this week, haven't they?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to cut 10 percent of jobs at the electric carmaker because he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy, he wrote in an email to executives. trib.al/lntLLgJ
Google maps is apparently down. In other news, Apple Maps sees an unprecedented spike in users it hasn't seen in years.
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For those of you dependent on Google Maps, please do not venture out on the roads. It's not safe for you today.
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How many times are the Uber and Lyft drivers going to drive around the block aimlessly trying to find their way today? It was bad enough when Google Maps was working.
MS detecting legit MS activity with more false positives. This made for a fun morning.
Microsoft Defender tags Office updates as ransomware activity - @serghei bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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Having travelled around Europe by rail, the US is so far behind with public transportation, it's not even funny.
6 Jan 2022
Anyone in the Austin area looking for a SysAdmin role (including basic networking, security, administration work)? The job can be mostly remote with 1-2 days per week in the office. #austintx #itjobs #job Drop me a message if you'd like more info and I'll put you in touch.
Great to see the shake-up with the @TexasMonthly Top 50 BBQ joints list. Definitely adding some new ones to the list of BBQ places I need to visit.
The wait is over. An all-new Top 50 list, featuring an all-new generation of pitmasters, is here. txmnth.ly/3vp8cOH
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How embarrassing to be this guy! And by this guy, I mean the Governor. We can only hope he makes as big an announcement when he realizes what the real issue is here.
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The important question is did he flat out ignore any tech folks that tried to correct him? Or did he refuse to seek proper input before making such a public blunder?
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Perhaps his grandkids can show him just how sophisticated this "multi-step hacking process" was.