Nicole Schwartz

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Finished off the first event of the season

@dianainitiative.bsky.social went well even half staffed (the other half were at @skytalks.bsky.social ) it will be the last stand alone event for a while. Find us at @defcon.bsky.social

Tomorrow I am your token human at @bsideslv.org

Recorded in case you missed it, it will be posted in a few months

Here's Nicole Schwartz (@circuitswan) kicking off Diana Initiative! 🥳 She just told us this will be the last event for.... A while. So glad I'm here!

@dianainitiative@defcon.social @dianainitiative

TDI Neurodivergent Dinner 2025 TDI will be hosting a neurodiversity dinner, a great opportunity for people to get together, network, and enjoy a meal together.

Just released 10 more tickets for the neurodivergent dinner, so if you were waiting, grab them now before we sell out again! already planning to be at hacker summer camp the whole week? Join us www.eventbrite.com/e/tdi-neurod... kick off hacker summer camp with your other like minded folks

I'm in this!

I wrote the opening chapter, What Autistic-Led Theories Mean for Education, with @safriedman.bsky.social.

It's priced for university libraries, unfortunately, but hopefully at least a few people will read it! If you're in academia, please ask your library to get a copy.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

PancakesCon 6: Family Brunch - CFP PancakesCon is a cybersecurity conference that will be conducted all day on 9/21/2025 (US Central Time). This conference is 100% virtual, not for profit and free to stream. **PancakesCon has a UNIQUE...

You have two weeks left to get your awesome talks into @pancakescon.com and @comfyconau.bsky.social !!!! Don’t miss out being part of our insane global free online con!!! forms.gle/H5bCRSaJY1f3... #cybersecurity #cfp

Looking for an Illustrator replacement. Everything suggested so far by the internet has been buggy af.

Anything out there that I can do vector-based drawing with?

I don’t need a lot of bells and whistles, just shapes, colors, resizing, maybe line manipulation?

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

Why why have you done this to us

Visa is easy but you have to trick the phone tree with Mastercard

1. select option that you have a card
2. select option to for account info
3. press a few random buttons when asked to give ur card, wait until it transfers you to an agent
4. Request to file a complaint abt discriminatory practices

Exactly

We could use a few volunteers to hang out in our quiet room Friday night at DEF CON - your job - shhhh people! if they don't shh get goons to remove them

9pm-10:15pm or 10:15-11:30 pm shifts are open

Seeking 2-3 more resume reviewers specifically 2pm Friday calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...

CISA SBOM Boss Allan Friedman Stepping Down Allan Friedman, who has led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) efforts to promote the use of software bills of material (SBOM) globally as a key component of advancing cyber...

Hi friends! I have some bittersweet news to share. Sorry to be leaving CISA but very excited for some new opportunities. www.meritalk.com/articles/cis...

Thank you for everything you have done for the sbom community

This goes right to the heart of what I have told people for ages... Do not keep your contact list EXCLUSIVELY in electronic form.

Carry a small printed card with the phone numbers of your most important contacts. I keep mine both in my wallet and under my phone case itself.

If you will still be in vegas on the 11th, and want to hang at the pool boop me, i have a few passes for the pool

We love that several of the BSides Leeds and other UK folks are helping with volunteering at Noob Village in DefCon this year. @grommoss.bsky.social 's on the No Stupid Questions desk with @ladycyberrosie.bsky.social who's also on a panel with our @jaysonstreet.bsky.social & @tib3rius.bsky.social

ActiveState & Carahsoft Team Up: Secure Open Source for Public Sector Big news! ActiveState and Carahsoft are partnering to deliver a secure open source management platform to government agencies. Enhance software supply chain security and boost productivity. Learn…

ActiveState & Carahsoft have teamed up to bring secure, compliant open source solutions to the public sector. Government IT and DevSecOps teams can now accelerate open source adoption—without sacrificing security or compliance.

Read the full story: www.activestate.com/resources/pr...

#DevSecOps

TDI Neurodivergent Dinner 2025 TDI will be hosting a neurodiversity dinner, a great opportunity for people to get together, network, and enjoy a meal together.

In Vegas on Monday August 4th?

First you should attend The Diana Initiative (tickets are only 25$)

But also we have a Neurodivergent dinner that night, even if you did not attend our event, come share mechanisms for how you best accommodate your brain www.eventbrite.com/e/tdi-neurod...

Managed a discount code for Black Hat but still have a friend who needs a free (expo hall) pass if anyone happens to have them (looking at you sales and marketing team friends) thank you in advance.

If you have extra $ @dianainitiative.bsky.social came in short this year with sponsors (shocked pikachu face) I know MANY not for profits & conferences are in the same place so if you are donating to better causes (mutual aid, Trans Life Line, Abortion Funds etc) we get it and agree! but if you can

We're all just as chaos as you write now, email me whatever you want me to post to our Discord, and i can also have registration let people know in our reminder email - and if you have some social posts you link us to I can RT them info@Diana

Folks @bsidesedmonton.bsky.social Platinum and Gold sponsorships are sold out, but we have one more silver, if you are a Canadian company in Alberta please consider supporting us www.bsidesedmonton.org/sponsors-2024 thanks!

This is journalism at its best. Incredible and essential work.

we need a security training solution which includes phish testing which includes; integration into Vanta such that for every new user in a group (i.i employee) they are automatically enrolled in phishing training and security awareness training, and report back their status (in SLA or not) to vanta

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

Via Alex Curley: Many people have asked me which public media stations need donations the most right now. Obviously, the data is all on my Substack, but it's admittedly not that easy to get to.

so @cameowood.com is killing the Q&A right now 😍 she’s so good at this, born to be famous