SteveD3 (Steve Ragan)

@steved3.io

Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel

Things are spinning up. First All Hands call happening tonight. Expect additional details soon, including room blocks, CFP, and more. Save the dates: August 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2026

It's 2025 and I am still emailing files to myself, and I still have three laptops, and three security logins, and three yubikeys, because identity segregation and security is still a complex mess, and I am tired

I wrote some mid-week words for my newsletter (and now blog!) ~this week in security~ on Google today sounding the alarm over a new "widespread" wave of Salesforce data thefts targeting customers of Salesloft Drift. Excited to share this with premium tier subscribers. ❤️

Salesforce instances targeted in new 'widespread' wave of data thefts

Salesloft confirmed a security incident affecting customers who integrate its Drift product with Salesforce. It's the latest wave of data thefts targeting Salesforce's instances.

this.weekinsecurity.com

I'm amused. Just finished moving 11k archives (~20GB). Went to do another backup. rsync -avzP --delete The script did what it was asked to do... now I get to move all 11k archives a second time b/c of --delete. Lesson? You can't copy and paste your way out of everything.