Brian Baskin

Trends to watch in 2026: Calendar phishing and opportunistic service abuse · Events · Sublime Security

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.

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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 ...

Ramp EOY review. Award for expensing a 1€ bathroom visit in Gare du Nord Paris

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

You're absolutely right! It is overlooking your instructions and I hope will no longer do it.

This is the fun of my Friday evenings...

Technically just hides it. Still shown on page but faded out to barely readable.

Partial LinkedIn access on PC, but banned from phone still.

Using LinkOff extension, one of the best things ever. Hides all junk so that LinkedIn is actually usable.

Partially hides useless posts so I can see real activity.

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

CTF/Huntress_2025 at master · Rurik/CTF Various CTF code. Contribute to Rurik/CTF development by creating an account on GitHub.

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...

AI is going to take over the world!

I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus.

Making up for lost time starting tonight

I refuse to sink to its level

When the robot revolution occurs, I will die knowing that I took the high road

AI - Master of the backhanded compliment

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

I just need to monitor these two bytes at 0x...c8.

10PM brain: Sure. Query "0x...c8 to 0x...c10"

Computer go brrrrr for an hour 🫠

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)

Debugging is a long journey
Plan random rest breaks along the way

A gorgeous start to GrrCon

#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."

For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂

Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use.

You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot.

Not online, yet. Maybe soon. I may try to give the sticker one again in a longer format that it really needs

By a long shot 😅

And had an awesome time being back at @bsideslv.org and DEF CON, for the inaugural Malware Village!

You wouldn't guess which of these two talks was the most stressful to prepare 😂