I decided to have AI help me redesign my home network for a work malware VLAN ... it did not go well. $250 and hours of troubleshooting later, ChatGPT finally admits its error
Brian Baskin
@bbaskin.bsky.social
Just someone that dabbles in threat research, malware analysis, RE, incident response, CTFs, and old school forensics. Apologetic ginger.
A break from PTO chilling to catch an awesome show with Poppy, LANDMVRKS, and Thousand Below. The first show of their US tour and it was 🔥 🔥
Lazy web while camping: trying to find a first car for teen but Facebook bans viewing listings unless you're 18 years old Is there any good solution to sharing details of a listing? Other than taking a dozen screenshots or printing to pdf from laptop?
We're still in the middle of a heat wave but also need a pure disconnect period to break in the camper I've been slowly restoring. First win, the A/C actually works! (trips circuit at home)
Thank you BSidesVancouver for an awesome event. Happy to present on a modern, unique targeted phishing account, and then win the event @corelight-inc.bsky.social CTF. Credit to the CoreLight platform. I've never used it before but picked it up quickly to finish first.
When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification
As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit
Excited that Sublime Security will be hosting a webinar with @johnhammond.bsky.social on newer email trends. Attackers are shifting to low volume abuse of legitimate services like opportunistic abuse of legitimate services and calendar phishing. sublime.security/events/trend...
Trends to watch in 2026: Calendar phishing and opportunistic service abuse · Events · Sublime Security
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The BSidesCharm CFP is accepting 50-min and 20-min talks. So far, less than 20% of submissions are 20-mins. I don't know who needs to hear this, but shorter talks have a higher likelihood of being accepted ...
Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best
A gift to myself is fixing my voice. After years of public speaking it took just one car accident w/ yrs of recovery to completely change my speech Now, w/ presentations being scheduled, I realize that I need to fix it. A lot of muscles to retrain, and looking for good resources
I use a chrome extension to remove shittified posts from LinkedIn, such as people liking things. LinkedIn has now continually banned me from using it on any platform.
When you use your personal email for a work project and end up screwing yourself for 24 hours... New distraction task, find out how my scripts hit a 2000/day limit so quickly
Today was my 8th time under anesthesia within the last year. Joked with anesthesiologist about having a frequent sleeper card to punch while I'm out. Get 10 and get a free breakfast at hospital café 😂 (because each requires fasting through breakfast)
The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood
I had some time to work on the RE Rust Tickler challenges from @HuntressLabs recent CTF. Specifically, I wanted to focus on @vector35 Binary Ninja's TTD implementation Over weekend I made some quick write-ups on how I approached these easier challenges. github.com/Rurik/CTF/tr...
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Various CTF code. Contribute to Rurik/CTF development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight
LinkedIn: AI is going to take over the world! Be prepared Twitter: AI is kinda helping. It can do some cool things Me: If Claude was a person I would be in jail for aggravated assault
The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis! (and fits well on my UW monitor)
Binary Ninja@binary.ninja · 10mo agoBinary Ninja 5.2 feature stream starts now! Join us to get a sneak peak of what's coming in the new stable: www.youtube.com/@vector35/live
Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way
#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ... I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time
Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly. And playing with process tree output ... As I do all my best work from hotel rooms.
When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it. Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ...
10 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow." Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI."