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Here's the #CFP for the 2025 #ICS #Cybersecurity Conference. The conference is Oct 27-30 at InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta.

2025 ICS Cybersecurity Conference: Call for Presentations
About the Conference - Know Your AudienceSecurityWeek’s ICS Cybersecurity Conference is the conference where ICS users, ICS vendors, system security p...

Is this a parody?
I don’t do #InfoSec or other cons so I don’t have a strong sense of whether the “Open Space” concept is brilliant or uproariously absurd. I lean towards the latter because it just seems to me like a recipe for people standing around.

#Infosec2025: Good Cybersecurity Enabled Ukraine’s Surprise Attack on Russia, Says NCSC
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/infosec2025-ukraine-drone-atta…

#Infosec2025: Good Cybersecurity Enabled Ukraine’s Surprise Attack on Russia, Says NCSC
Effective cybersecurity played a key role Ukraine drone attack on Russian strategic bombers, a leading government security expert has claimed

One #infosec example of the very many NSF funding awards being revoked:
"Hudson County Community College (HCCC) was awarded a $599,811 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for its program, “Nurturing Resilience: Empowering the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals with a Focus on Women.” The program goals are to recruit and retain more women in the HCCC Cybersecurity Prog…

Hudson County Community College Receives $600,000 National Science Foundation Grant to Expand Its Nationally Acclaimed Cybersecurity Program
The explosive demand for Cybersecurity is outpacing the supply of computer science professionals who assess threats and prevent attacks. Educational institutions, healthcare organizations, government, businesses, and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to evolving hazards including phishing, spoofing, malware, ransomware, and viruses.

Not so much, really.
This is yet another case of an academic setting up a very special circumstance that doesn’t match the real world to create a “vulnerability” that is never going to be used in the real world.
Ever been in a proper data center? Was it quiet?
#InfoSec

Had to unscrew 21 screws to open a laptop. TWENTY-ONE!
And only to then tear off the cable to the speaker which was hidden under the cover.
Guess what manufacturer :-)
#DigitalForensics #DFIR

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
#infosec …

OH on work slack while joking about how ridiculous infosec gatekeeping can be:
IF YOU’VE NEVER CHANGED YOUR BAUD RATE BY ADJUSTING DIP SWITCHES, I’M NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR CYBERSECURITY OPINIONS
#greyscale #infosec #sre #secops @… @… @…

If your day begins with debugging the registry entries of one of your tools to make it run - you know it's gonna be a great day.
But hey... it was simple. Just delete every registry key of it.
#DigitalForensics #DFIR

I have a trick for getting into a box that’s being clobbered by a crawler DDoS: set the ITerm2 profile to auto-restart and open a half-dozen duplicate sessions. Basically: put a bunch of my SYNs in the queues to compete with the bots.
Ugly as sin, but it ultimately works.
Also: fuck those guys. And fuck their ISPs for being so comatose that they don't notice.
#InfoSec

Another tool for our arsenal of protections against adversarial bots:
#zipbomb #zipbombs #bots #crawlers #aislop #infosec