Greg Otto

@gregotto.bsky.social

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@gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Host of Safe Mode. Better with words than I am with code.

Jeff Perlman’s Only God Can Judge Me, biography of Tupac Shakur
Shashank Joshi -- An update. A US official tells me that Sen. Warner misunderstood the NSA director Gen. Rudd in this case. Rudd did use the 'hours, not weeks' wording, but the use of Mythos in this context was—as widely assumed—part of a red-teaming effort, i.e. testing the security of internal networks. The official also told me that the agency's red-teams no longer have access to Mythos, because their authority for accessing it was under Project Glasswing.
Yep that’s a trading card with Anthony hopkins and Richard Nixon
A marketing still featuring Conan O'Brien teaching cybersecurity
Ai slop
An absolutely ridiculous AI slop CAPTCHA i just got on ebay
Team PCP is Wemby, Open Source Maintainers are Chet, and they are getting dunked on with Mini Shai-Hulud
A Reddit post that says a talk at BSides SF was wildly misogynistic.
An announcement that N-able has partnered with Man City. Manchester is red, btw.
Got called a nerd using a uncle baby Billy pic
A subject line that reads: AI Is Fuelling A Surge In UK Reports of Witchcraft And Satanic Rituals
cover of Funk Flex/Big Kap The Tunnel CD
Temps for Feb 10, 11, 12 above 40, 12th showing 57 degrees
A guy who looks like Patrick Gray
Thinkin bout a homemade hot chicken pop tart
This dumb block on Google Chrome that wants to you prompt its AI for a sloptastic answer about the website you are reading
However, Klein also made it clear that “most autonomous” is a relative term. There is plenty of evidence to indicate this hacking group devoted significant human and technical resources into the way it used Claude. Namely, the automation detailed in Anthropic’s report performed by Claude was made possible through a frontend framework designed to orchestrate and support its operations. The framework handled tasks such as scripting, provisioning related servers, and significant backend development to ensure every step was followed correctly. Klein noted this development process was the most difficult — and, importantly, human-led — step in the operation. “The first part that is not autonomous is building the framework, so you needed a human being to put this all together,” Klein said. “You had a human operator that would put in a target, they would click a button and then use this framework that was created [ahead of time]. The hardest part of this entire system was building this framework, that’s what was human intensive.”
Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency is listed, which is the wrong title
List of CVEs from CISA KEV list, starting with two from 2010, two from 2011, and one from 2013
CISA KEV email that has CVEs from 2015 and 2017.
Kash Patel wearing a tie with the Liverpool FC logo on it
An email to me where a PR flack says Philly sports suck but Jalen Hurts is good
Here is a memo released by Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll this morning
Here is the text of a since-deleted linkedin post welcoming Easterly on Tuesday
A news story that says Palo Alto may acquire SentinelOne.
Bad writing in the White House's AI Action Plan
Text from CyberScoop's op-ed where Eric Swalwell refers to CISA as the "Draymond Greens of cybersecurity."
Screenshot of contract details from the federal procurement database showing a canceled purchase order for Telemessage
We are a cybersecurity company – our mission is to defend customers, enterprises, and governments against cyber threats by leveraging the most advanced Artificial Intelligence. We view the White House as a crucial collaborator on that mission, and we will continue to support a strong America at a time of heightened geopolitical threats. Our team’s focus remains on being a force for good in this industry and the world. We will continue to nurture our partnerships in the U.S. government, military, and intelligence community and collaborate in our shared mission to defend U.S. critical infrastructure in cyberspace as we always have. In regard to the Executive Order dated April 9, 2025 focused on Chris Krebs in his prior role as a government employee, we will actively cooperate in any review of security clearances held by any of our personnel – currently less than 10 employees overall and only where required by existing government processes and procedures to secure government systems. Accordingly, we do not expect this to materially impact our business in any way.
Coins and flyers with a cobra dressed up like George Washington for SleuthCon