Dr. Dave Venable
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OPSEC Connoisseur ∙ Disinformation ∙ CISO ∙ @TheCipherBrief | Ex USIC, NSA CNE, StateDept | Book & Art Collector
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Very honored to be included in
@TribeOfHackers
Blue Team. Thanks so much to
@marcusjcarey
and
@jen_jin
, I can’t wait to sit down and read the whole book! I’ve loved and learned a lot from every edition of the
#TribeOfHackers
series!
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I’ve decided I no longer believe in the existence of cybersecurity
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How to make accurate predictions:
(1) Assume the tech ends up getting to wherever you think it will;
(2) Imagine the absolute worst possible implementation of it in a genie’s curse sort of way.
From what I can tell, this will 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 end up accurate.
I actually think cryptocurrency will turn into the opposite of what people hope for. Governments will create their own, infiltrate or co-opt existing standards to remove anonymity and give them control over monetary supply. And then ban alternatives to illegal undergrounds.
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People mad about CISOs with music degrees. Meanwhile I know people with masters degrees in CS who couldn't write a hello world bash script 🙄
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Wow, this is insane:
#FunFactFriday
- The Royal Navy has been testing Jet Suit assault teams to determine if the Iron Man-like suits could be used to rapidly swarm and board ships. U.S. Special Operations Command is also evaluating a jetpack that can reach speeds of more than 200 mph.
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Jake’s not wrong. It’s just… annoying that he’s not wrong.
I spend so much time lately defending the IC from kooky conspiracy theorists that my default reaction when I saw this yesterday was basically “c’mon now, we both know firsthand…”
But the facts are the facts. It’s
Name one time US intelligence or law enforcement services have not sought to increase their spying/investigative powers.
Seriously, I'll wait...
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(THREAD) Information Warfare campaigns often target conspiracy theorists. I'll explain in this thread.
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I’ve long argued that cybersecurity is not a tech specialization, but rather a security specialization (see my article here: )
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@RayRedacted
The big question is whether it’s due to firings, or (more likely) security is suddenly getting the budget it’s been asking for (now that it’s too late).
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Could someone from
@BostonDynamics
please send one of your terminators back in time to prevent agile meetings from being called “ceremonies?”
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I’m shocked by how many people don’t realize that MacOS is a Unix, and has been for like 23 years.
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It’s great to see a big publication shedding light on this problem. London real estate plays a major role in global corruption
Nobody knows who owns 86,000 properties in the UK—including one worth £215 million
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When did everyone start thinking college/university was a white collar trade school?
Hot take: It was never supposed to be job training 🤷🏻♂️
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@cmclymer
For us, bedtime was at X o’clock… but once in bed, we could read for 30 minutes if we chose to.
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But now I’d assert that cyber is the air that human security breaths. In a “fish can’t describe water, because they don’t know any world other than being in water” sort of way.
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So it's safe to say that pretty much all voting machines are vulnerable...
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Seems like both parties celebrate leaks that hurt the other side and condemn leaks that hurt their side
Liberals shouldn’t celebrate government leaks—they should condemn them as a threat to democracy
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@MalwareJake
I feel like for-profit medical insurance is the bigger mistake. Co-op insurance would be so much better
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Estonia has been allowing cyber in place of compulsory mil service too. This makes so much sense.
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In the following sense:
Let’s say you’re a fish, and you’re focused on water security.
But… fish, for all essential purposes, don’t / can’t exist outside of water. So fish have security that isn’t water security
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This is the future. We’re going to see more and more operational independence and self-financing as we move forward. And with heavily sanctioned states, we’ll see more frequent use of cryptocurrency as a means to circumvent these sanctions.
OPSEC note from the GRU operation to hack the DNC - Unit 26165 had their own bitcoin mining operation to generate funds for the operational cost of their effort. They were basically self-funding their own operational costs.
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My Voting Machine Hacking Village video made it on to Fox News this weekend!
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Update: he flew away!
Anyone know how to help an injured bird? He can’t seem to move his legs. I gently got him somewhere safe, but not sure what else I should do
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Dear
@Apple
, if my AirPods Max have been in this position a few rooms away for the last 20+ hours, the chances of me wanting that incoming call’s audio being sent to them is ~0%.
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This just in from the Incredibly Unqualified Takes department 😅
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Standing room only to hear from
@PowerVertical
&
@MargoGontar
on information warfare.
#WSF2016
@StopFakingNews
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Congrats to New Security Leaders of
@WarsawForum
! Honored to mentor this fantastic group w/
@PowerVertical
&
@BAMcCown
#WSF2016
#WSF_NSL2016
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@rayjwatson
@HydeNS33k
@VinceintheBay
Prank of the week right here. It just calls Time & Temperature 😂
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Impromptu
#cigarcon
with
@AllTheCybers
@RayRedacted
@R0gueG0pher
@da5ch0
@0xIntern
@_sn0ww
@FrankMcG
@cillic
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@ercwl
@SchmiegSophie
@SoatokDhole
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| CRYPTO |
| MEANS |
| CRYPTOZOOLOGY |
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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So… what… short of North Sentinel Island, humanity effectively has no security that, at the very least, has no cyber component.
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Fantastic points brought up by
@PowerVertical
and
@General_Ben
. It’s time we change the way we look at this:
What does America actually get from
@NATO
? In the second episode of CEPA's
#RoadWarrior
series,
@General_Ben
Hodges joins
@PowerVertical
to examine if the Alliance benefits the United States. Watch:
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Was there some kind of sports thing today or something?
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This right here
Confidently making things up as it goes is the most human thing an LLM does.
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Fantastic analysis by
@EdwardLucas
at
@cepa
: finance is the next battleground for western security
Western security planners need to start preparing for what’s on the horizon, argues
@EdwardLucas
.
#EuropesEdge
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@arrington
On the plus side, when the raid arrives they can just shout "Alexa, unlock the front door" instead of kicking it in.
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All these "how to prevent
#wannacry
" webinars this week... Srsly? How does it take an hour to say:
1. Patch
2. Backup
3. Block dumb ports
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@rayjwatson
@HydeNS33k
@VinceintheBay
And the "access code" spells "sucker" on the telephone keypad 😂😂😂
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Can we, as a society, go back to calling it either a “question” or a “request,” and not an “ask”? Please?
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@realkimstover
They tried. We never cared (or even noticed in most cases)... then they went after Millennials and GenZ, and both groups reacted in exactly the ways that the bullies were hoping for, so they keep doing it. 🤷🏻♂️
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Wait, so this would only removes ads in For You? 😂
How about give me the option to disable For You altogether, and remove ads in Following? Then I’d be sold.
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The story behind this is that Radia Perlman, the “mother of the Internet,” said this to me back in like 2001. A few years ago,
@RayRedacted
and I printed it up on t-shirts and passed them out at Black Hat and DEFCON.
“Just Say No” to legislation mandating weakened or backdoored encryption:
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Another amazing year at the
@WarsawForum
! Congrats to my friends
@Pisarski
and
@KPisarska
on another huge success. A lot of great discussion that will lead to action. Check out this great summary video (and see me at the end!):
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Should be mandatory “welcome to the internet” reading:
Phishing attacks are one of the most common ways to get hacked, but there are ways to avoid them. Learn more here.
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New hobby: I’m going to start saying “…for obvious reasons” every time I’m explaining something that’s super nonobvious.
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Duke’s a huge fan of the original Applied Cryptography!
For 24 hrs, for every RT including a picture of your dog & an infosec book I'll donate $5 in your name to
@DianaInitiative
, a conference focused on Women, Diversity, & Inclusion in Information Security, embracing all genders, sexualities & skill levels.
Each photo RT=$5. Go!
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Ah yes, because it would totally make sense for a country/service to blow the fact that they’ve successfully defeated modulo-reduced / differential log-reduced algorithms over… VPN traffic. lmao
At Mike Lindell's cyber-security summit, this "data scientist" just told attendess not to use
@ExpressVPN
because it is (allegedly) Chinese-owned and they are allegedly using Quantum Computing to snoop on your traffic.
News flash: VPN providers don't need QC to track traffic.
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Put simply, Flynn just isn’t savvy enough to be Q. 🙃
And frankly, that’s not setting a very high bar.
We did an investigation on this at the height of the Q panic, and we pretty much established (but couldn’t 100% prove) the several people who instigated Q and were likely to have been Q. There has been more than one Q, but none of them were Flynn.
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Not to mention a shift toward cyber-enabled HUMINT, which is literally just traditional HUMINT.
Can we just stop with the sh*t that spycraft is changing and old school has gone, please? It's really not. Traditional HUMINT recruitment is fast adapting to the tech age, yet the principles remain the same.
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Discussing Putin’s war in Ukraine with the US Senate and several Ukrainian Members of Parliament today
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@MalwareJake
Dork is just the perfect description. Anyone that’s ever had to carry, hates carrying. It’s such a pain. He’s obviously just a 2A cosplay nerd.
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@LinuxHandbook
Learn to shell script (bash or any other shell). Learn a scripting language like Python or Perl too… but that doesn’t replace all the knowledge you’ll gain about the system and system internals that you’ll gain by learning to shell script.
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@carrickdb
I just use: E as in eye, I as in I, A as in aye, W as in write, G as in gnat, T as in tsunami, and so on.
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Getting ready for London! If you're interested in
#OPSEC
, check out my BlackHatEU talk
#BHEU
@BlackHatEvents
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Everything seems easy when you don't understand it well enough 😅
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When I was first learning to code and to exploit code, I didn’t have anyone to ask questions of… which led to (1.) probably taking much longer to learn everything, but (2.) gaining a pretty well developed ability to RTFM/research on my own and general self sufficiency.
I’m
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Just saw 2 chinooks flying low over north DFW… anyone know why?
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Just finished a great discussion on Cyber Warfare in the 21st Century with
@pssi_prague
and
@CharlesUniPRG
. Many thanks to
@GOVCERT_CZ
and
@USEmbassyPrague
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Standing room only to see
@BilyanaLilly
and
@sakkov
discussing foreign election interference at
@WarsawForum
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