Posts are attributable to me—not my employer. Leadership, Security, and Intelligence. Former Infantry, HUMINT, Counterintelligence, and Cyberspace Operations.
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With today’s PC parts cost, the ER would have been cheaper
A woman's life was apparently saved by her gaming PC after a bullet fired through a wall struck the computer while she slept
Police reportedly said the PC changed the bullet's trajectory and may have prevented a fatal hit
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Dawg how I get strep and covid at the same damn time??
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Jun 14
Watching horror movies is so frustrating. The target gets one in on the assailant and instead of seizing the initiative and finishing it, they just run away allowing the assailant to recover and resume the assault.
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Jun 14
Law enforcement dismantled a major crypto laundering empire, a PRC-linked botnet targeted U.S. military infrastructure, and a self-replicating worm infected major open-source repositories.
This is the Good, Bad & Ugly. ⬇️
✅ GOOD
- Europol dismantled the AudiA6 cryptocurrency laundering network, arresting two senior administrators and seizing vast digital assets.
- The joint operation disrupted an industrial-scale infrastructure that laundered over $380 million for global ransomware syndicates.
- The FBI seized 13 fraudulent websites used by Chinese intelligence operatives to recruit U.S. citizens holding sensitive government security clearance.
⚠️ BAD
- The VOlt Typhoon-linked JDY botnet expanded its global footprint to over 1,500 compromised SOHO and IoT devices.
- Operators are weaponizing the network to conduct stealthy distributed scanning and fingerprinting against U.S. military infrastructure.
- The malware executes exceptionally fast SYN scanning using custom-crafted TCP packets to rapidly locate vulnerable edge devices.
🤢 UGLY
- The Miasma supply chain worm recently compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories to automatically trigger malicious code execution in developer environments.
- Attackers evolved the campaign into the Hades variant, poisoning 19 PyPI packages with hidden setup files that execute silently during Python startup.
- The malware deploys heavily obfuscated credential stealers and incorporates novel plain-text prompt injections to deceive LLM-based package analysis tools.
Full breakdown → s1.ai/GBU9-Wk24
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Jun 14
Iran continues to be the example I cite when discussing the reality that plausible deniability is as meaningful as your target allows it to be. There's this myth in the minds of some suits that if there's a proxy, you can't punish the upstream party, and that's been proven false.
Jun 14
Iran has created proxy forces for reasons of plausible deniability and act with impunity. Hezbollah launched a drone attack against Israel today. Iran’s leaders want Hezbollah included in the ceasefire but without responsibility for its actions. You can’t have it both ways.
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Jun 14
Rob crushed this tweet.
We recently fought two unnecessary decades-long wars of occupation. The invasion of Iraq was sold to Americans with falsehoods and exaggerations. Thousands of American and our allies' servicemembers died for no strategic gain in Afghanistan. Many of our current problems are a result of not sufficiently valuing the lives of American servicemembers, particularly the enlisted infantrymen who bear the heaviest burden of our wars.
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We recently fought two unnecessary decades-long wars of occupation. The invasion of Iraq was sold to Americans with falsehoods and exaggerations. Thousands of American and our allies' servicemembers died for no strategic gain in Afghanistan. Many of our current problems are a result of not sufficiently valuing the lives of American servicemembers, particularly the enlisted infantrymen who bear the heaviest burden of our wars.
Jun 12
The USA has joined the ranks of the world's post-heroic countries that cannot tolerate even a few casualties to defend even major interests. 82nd troops & Marines in place w ample air support to cut risks did not occupy the Gulf islands to keep the seaways open. WH said no
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I thought the same exact thing.
If the monument can’t explain itself without a propaganda video, I’m not interested.
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If the monument can’t explain itself without a propaganda video, I’m not interested.
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Love this picture, because people are too used to seeing 30 year old special operations guys that they forget about the INFANTry that fights the nation's battles.
Jun 12
U.S. Marine with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, in Fallujah, Iraq, on November 17, 2004.
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Jun 12
Naming my first child AI so it can take all yalls jobs
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Security is a forever profession.
Jun 12
NIST has a useful paper on AI guardrails
The takeaway is that static guardrails are the wrong security model for open-ended LLM systems.
A finite set of rules cannot cover every adaptive prompt. You can harden the system, make bypasses harder, monitor for abuse and reduce the blast radius. But you should not patch an LLM once, add a few refusal rules and call it done.
LLM security needs to look more like vuln research and detection engineering:
continuous testing, continuous updates and an assumption that bypasses will eventually be found
nist.gov/news-events/news/20…
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Jun 11
AI comes up with far better options for a GWOT Memorial based on a thoughtful prompt. Says a lot about whatever approach was used by the GWOTMF.
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Jun 11
In my blood
( print options available on the site)
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The conspirators targeted current and former security clearance holders and other Americans who have access to classified and sensitive U.S. government information.
13 internet domains used to target U.S. persons, including current and former security clearance holders with access to classified and sensitive U.S. government information, were seized today by federal authorities.
“These domain seizures offer a glimpse at how foreign actors can use promises of easy money to lure Americans into revealing sensitive or classified information that they are duty‑bound to protect,” said Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg. “Anyone approached online with offers of easy income for vague ‘consulting’ work should treat those overtures with extreme caution and remain vigilant for warning signs of malicious targeting.”
Read more: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-d…
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Jun 10
You want a GWOT memorial that makes sense?
1. Stone. Use stone from the various states that lost service members in Iraq and Afghanistan, the colors would also be evocative of the sand in Iraq and the mountains in Afghanistan. Use font and symbology that equates to Section 60.
2. Columns with the recognizable influence of the WTC in NY, Pentagons, and Keystones for Pennsylvania. Use numbers like 9, 11, and 21 to evoke the dates.
3. Center the service members who made the sacrifice. Like the Vietnam memorial, it should make it plain that the real legacy of the GWOT is the sacrifice born of tragedy. You cannot sugarcoat or sanitize that and have a memorial worthy of their memory.
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