Happy #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth! Are we secure yet? In all seriousness, take some time to update your dependencies, remove secrets from your source, run static analysis, and lock down any publicly accessible databases or storage.
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William Bartholomew
@iamwillbar
He/him/vim/spaces, Australian-born, USA-residing Principal Security Strategist - Global Cybersecurity Policy at Microsoft. Friction fighter. Views are my own.
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Today we opened an RFC with a proposal of how npm can collaborate with to link packages to their source and build, a significant improvement to the supply chain security of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Walgreens when there is an insurance issue blocking your prescription: 🦗 🦗 🦗. Walgreens when a prescription is ready to pick up:
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Anime peeps, My Hero Academia suitable for a 10 year old, yay or nay?
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What’s the recommended way these days to remote access a Linux desktop environment (KDE) from another Linux desktop environment? RDP, VNC, NX, SSH+X11 forwarding, webcam+Boston Dynamics robot, …
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Why do I always think of something I need to ask a DC-based colleague **after** their day ends? #timezones
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Looks like COVID triggered Ms10’s juvenile arthritis (which was in medical remission) to flare 😢
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Some light reading… 8 lbs according to the box it came in.
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My wife waiting for her quarantine to end…
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I know the tests are expensive, but my wife started showing COVID symptoms today and a rapid antigen showed negative and the NAAT test showed positive. I hope technology like this comes down in price and expands to other types of tests.
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This checks out 🤧😷
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The symptoms of coronavirus subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are similar to those of earlier versions of Omicron, experts said. nyti.ms/3uLPcuO
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BREAKING: Jealous of all the attention the rest of the universe is getting, Pluto reminds us that it was robbed of planetary status and returns to pouting on its eccentric orbit.
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BREAKING: Jealous of all the attention the rest of the universe is getting with NASA's fancy new telescope, Jupiter puts on a little hat twitter.com/konstructivizm…
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Debating with myself whether to take Plaxovid. I have respiratory conditions that make me high risk for severe COVID, not having any respiratory issues yet but there is a short window for starting Plaxovid.
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Despite precautions I’ve now caught COVID, and everything hurts. This strain is extremely virulent, be careful out there folks.
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Ms10 just got home from camp and got a take home gift…
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Looking good Seattle…
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Organizing books on bookshelves by color…
- Good16.7%
- Neutral16.7%
- Evil58.3%
- What’s a book?8.3%
12 votesFinal results
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Why is this in greyscale? How do I know which ones are homing and which ones bounce off walls?
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I always assumed they were just the Twinkie apocalypse
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if i saw a minion in real life i would put it in the microwave
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Some people are so rude and entitled ugh!
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State Farm - we’ve seen a thing or two.
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a dog, switzerland, 15th century
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After 4 full days of policy cybering with the delegation to 🇮🇱cyberweek and myself get to top it off with a discussion around digital sovereignty and cybersecurity. Looking fwd to hearing all the different perspectives!
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Hadera, Israel was covered in eucalyptus trees to repel mosquitoes, smelt just like Australia.
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Microsoft ILDC showing its colors… 💜
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First leg of the trip complete, short stop in Istanbul and then on to Tel Aviv #tired
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I’m participating in a panel on digital sovereignty and cybersecurity next week, what is your hot take on it or what would you love to learn?
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I have personalized ads turned off on Twitter, I connected to Turkish Airways wifi, my ads are now in Turkish. That feels… personalized?
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UX PSA: do not put capacitive buttons where elbows go. I’m turning this plane into a disco every time I move my arm.
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First international flight in a LONG time, looking forward to Israel Cyber Week.
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I was going to complain about how hot it will be in Tel Aviv, but then I saw how hot it is in Austin.
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Nothing quite like a 90+ minute delay on an 80 minute flight.
Bye San Francisco, it’s been too long!
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Did not have elevator failure in my threat model this morning.
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Rust is the fastest growing language on GitHub - about time we added support for Dependabot alerts to it 🦀
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Airports aren’t as second nature as they used to be, that might be a good thing.
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This looks completely legitimate…
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