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Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸2d ago

Thinkst Canary 2d ago

At #RSAC this year? Swing by our booth (N-6445) to talk about detection that works (and why small details matter).

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Mar 11

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Eugen Rochko Mar 10

Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Mar 9

Mark Nottingham Mar 9

More belated introspection from the adtech industry.

https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/

The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk

The US government wants to use digital ad infrastructure for the exact type of surveillance critics have long warned about. We should have seen this coming.

AdExchanger

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Mar 8

Patrick C Miller

Mar 8

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/turns_out_most_cybercriminals_are/

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better

: Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies

The Register

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Mar 3

tante Mar 3

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Feb 27

hack_lu Feb 27

Call for papers is now open for hack.lu 2026 (the 20th edition!)

The purpose of the hack.lu convention is to provide an open and free playground where people can discuss the implications of new technologies in society. hack.lu is a balanced mix convention where technical and non-technical people can meet and share all kinds of information freely. The convention will be held in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in October (20-23.10.2026). The most significant new discoveries about computer network attacks and defenses, open-source security solutions, and pragmatic real-world security experiences will be presented in a four-day series of informative tutorials.

We are waiting for your great proposals!

https://2026.hack.lu/blog/hack.lu-2026-call-for-papers/

#cfp #luxembourg #conference #cybersecurity #callforpapers #hacklu

Call for papers is now open for hack.lu 2026 (the 20th edition!)

Time to submit a talk, training or workshop to hack.lu

hack.lu 2026

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Feb 24

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Feb 24

Today marks the fourth anniversary of Ukraine’s monumental resistance to russia’s full-scale aggression.

The war continues for one reason only: russia has not abandoned its imperial ambitions and continues to wage war and carry out terror against civilians. Our goal is to stop it.

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Feb 17

OpenFactBook.org Feb 16

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

OpenFactBook - World Factbook Alternative | Country Data & Statistics

The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Free comprehensive data on 260+ countries: geography, demographics, government, economy, and more.

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Feb 13

Serge Droz Feb 13

We're organising a conference on large and critical it infrastructures. What we really want to talk about is the security aspects of things like DNS, BGP etc, from a techical but also policy standpoint:

https://www.first.org/events/colloquia/geneva2026/

This will happen during the Geneva Cyber week, and we hope to talk to a lot of policy folks

CFP is open, please spread the word: The event is free and we welcome diverse submissions and participation.

2026 Peak Incident Response Technical Colloquium

FIRST — Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸Jan 30

Simon Phipps Jan 30

When a government does not fully control its IT systems it is unable to govern effectively and this cannot be solved with legislation or contracts, only with #OpenSource - Dirk Schrödter, head of the state chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein and at #OFESummit