Notices by Mike Sheward (secureowl@infosec.exchange)

“Don’t expect major changes,” declares first American born Pope from the Coca-Cola balcony at Microsoft presents St. Peter’s Basilica.

If you are a journalist you should check out everything @404mediaco does and do more of that, I believe it is called journalism.

Also, if you are not a journalist and just want to read some journalism, I would highly recommend @404mediaco.

Have been constantly impressed by the quality and depth of their reporting. And I’m British so not easily impressed.

@jerry Hegseth probably just said “we are currently clean on opec”

A personal highlight for me from camp was when an 11 year old kid went up to another one, pointed at him, and said - “yo, moo off?”

There was a nod of the head from the opposing child, and without any further prompting they both started to moo loudly until the losing child had no more breath left to maintain the moo.

They shook hands, the winner graceful in victory, and they continued on their ways.

I have been to RSA before.

I could’ve gone again.

Then I heard Kristi Noem went there and talked about security.

Now I know I’ll never ever set foot in that one again. Thanks for saving me the trip.

Shout out to this absolute legend travelling business class on the state ferry

if you ever stumble across a folder called 'temp' on a file share on any corporate network, nine times out of ten it's 24 years old and contains everything you need to assume ownership over both the network and the company

The kid walks into my office this afternoon and says, “do you think I could get one of these to play with?”

I look and it’s an ESP32 dev kit of some kind on Amazon.

I open one of my drawers that has a dozen ESP32 dev kits in it and he lights up, “sure here you go!”

He comes back a few seconds later and says, “trouble is, all the projects I’m looking at need breadboards.”

I open a different drawer.

it’s like mom always said, “work hard, keep your head down, save as much as you can, and one day a bunch of idiots who don’t even know what countries are can set it all on fire.”

The speedo in the rental VW I got looks like an attitude indicator banking hard right with a slight climb

broadcom don't seem to like vmware customers very much which begs the question, if you don't like vmware customers, why would you buy vmware?

I recently immersed myself in the slipper lifestyle. Never thought it’d be for me to be honest. I’m not much of a fan of flip flops, and slippers are essentially softer flip flops imo. At least that’s what I thought.

Anywho, I got myself a pair of slippers just to dabble. And yeah, going to get the mail, taking the dogs out. Game changer. Never going back. Regret that it took me so long to embrace.

Remember, do one thing everyday that scares you.

As someone who has never been to Waffle House, but will soon be in proximity to one, should I go to Waffle House?

“Did you remember the milk?”

“No, but I did remember every external IP address of an array of servers used by a company I worked at 22 years ago, and a Sophos activation key from around the same era, any chance we could do anything with that?”

Ok, first and foremost - an Amber alert, I hope it all works out and the kids are all safe. And I get the need to disseminate information as quickly as possible.

Secondly, I have many feelings about a government alert being broadcast to phones containing a bitly link to an X [dot] com post. The X post, is not accessible if you are not logged in to X/Twitter.

We desperately need to decouple our government departments and agencies from commercial entities when it comes to Crisis communications. This, in my opinion, is pretty unacceptable.

vendor told me they were going to send API credentials in a “secure document”

It was just a regular word document, but the credentials were in white text so you couldn’t see them without either highlighting or changing the font color

have advised them to add dark mode to their threat model

Hello here are the five things I did this week:

1) asked the FAA to divert aircraft back towards Florida following SpaceX explosion

2) performed environmental impact study following SpaceX explosion

3) sent formal apology on behalf of US government to Turks and Caicos regarding SpaceX explosion

4)worked with FAA to compensate passengers who were grounded in Florida due to SpaceX explosion

5) ran out of time to do the fifth thing because my flight was delayed due to SpaceX explosion

I see all those big tech companies who gave a million dollars to the inaugural fund of an adjudicated sexual abuser and person who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women have done cool logos in support of international Women’s day

I don’t believe for one second that a reporter from TASS was “accidentally” allowed into that room btw. I don’t think accidentally wandering into the White House is a thing.

Leaked from next Bond film script:

“Bond is at the Casino sir, he’s got the target in sight.”

“Tell him to abort. We need him back in the office five days a week. To, you know, collaborate.”