Oregon Supreme Court ruled in 1978 in State v. Epps that bounty hunting was considered kidnapping, outlawing bounty hunting in the state. Also applying the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, which prohibits bounty hunters from taking defendants across state lines. Just sayin’.

If you couldn’t make our DEF CON workshop, all the materials are available on GitHub for you to enjoy at our own pace. See you next year! github.com/BC-SECURITY/Be…

I think this year at DEF CON I failed at not being recognizable in photos, first time in a while that has happened.

Mandiant has begun to observe another trend where threat actors, including APT29, take advantage of the self-enrollment process for MFA in Azure Active Directory and other platforms. mandiant.com/resources/blog…

Join myself and a couple other team members from the Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) Security Validation's Behavior Research Team on September 15th, for our webinar where we will discuss Security Validation, and how we research and create content to test security controls! brighttalk.com/webcast/7451/5…

Making my way back from .de apparently this means I get to spend 5 hours in PHX. But hey it’s not that bad; I could have to go outside. 100 degrees and flash floods?!?!

Killnet is suspected of being behind DDoS attacks on US airports. They also claimed responsibility recently for DDoS on US state gov sites, as well as other countries opposing Ukranian invasion. The attacks have been mostly nuisance and not had much impact on operations.

Effective threat hunting and incident response requires expert #threatintel coupled with precision and real-time visibility at scale. In this talk at mWISE Conference, Tanium's @SecuritySphynx and Stephanie Aceves will explore with Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)'s Tim is celebrating spooky season, all year long. how we have joined forces.

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector microsoft.com/en-us/security…

Great write up on Trail of Bits about the SQLite Vuln, CVE-2022-35737 good job Andreas and team on this one. blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/25/sql…

You don’t know how much stuff you’ve been holding on to “just in case” until you start packing up everything. This is both metaphorical and physical, personal and work related. 10 year old ppt, 8 year old mason jar. Is it all the same?

SPC tonight.

Oi, Santa. Let’s go giv’em the whatfor.

Balloongate is all the rage, but as John Hultquist reminds us, don't forget about cyber espionage. wsj.com/articles/old-s…

@d34da55 Drake Direct Tony Hawk Dr. Dre This is actually a crazy unknown fact from the early 90’s. It was his first modeling gig which led to his big break on Degrassi.

Another Defcon down, I got great big Goon hugs, I got to see old college friends and colleagues. We Gooned the Con, supported our community and did the thing once again. This week is always hard, prepping, packing, and taking care of people. I love you, see you next year #Defcon