Jason Mashak 🕊️

@jasonmashak@infosec.exchange
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Maszak, Masiak, Машак...Polack-Bohunk-Viking-German, Dad to #daughters, #Epicurean #Stoic, M.Ed., #MarComms, #AnalystRelations & #PublicRelations 📡, layman #media analyst, #poet (#author of Salty as a Lip), lo-fi #musician... Born/Lived in #Michigan, then Georgia, Tennessee & Oregon… self-exiled in 2006 to #CzechRepublic (with a few years in #Germany)... into #history, #sociology and cultures of #EasternEurope. Views mine, not employer’s.
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LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmashak
Now at#Whalebone
Previously at#ADT, #IDC, #Avast, #Avira, #Runecast, #Dynatrace
Bird sitehttps://twitter.com/jasonmashak
Rare photo of Willie Nelson and Keith Richards building the pyramids.

I just published:

A Simple Habit to Protect Your Time, Sanity, and #Cybersecurity

https://medi um.com/p/a-simple-habit-to-protect-your-time-sanity-and-cybersecurity-a410bb5d1edd

Avast and AVG: Critical Security Vulnerability Quietly Patched

In the virus scanners of Avast and AVG, attackers could escalate their privileges in the system. The manufacturer quietly distributed updates.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Avast-and-AVG-Critical-Security-Vulnerability-Quietly-Patched-11075869.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Avast #IT #Security #Sicherheitslücken #Updates #news

Avast and AVG: Critical Security Vulnerability Quietly Patched

In the virus scanners of Avast and AVG, attackers could escalate their privileges in the system. The manufacturer quietly distributed updates.

heise online
Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring. It's never too late to follow your dreams.
What’s amazing is that this book is talking about how screwed society was by this ‘future shock’ already by 1970… and things have sped up much more since.

“[N]ot only do contemporary events radiate instantaneously – now we can be said to be feeling the impact of all past events in a new way. For the past is doubling back on us. We are caught in what might be called a ‘time skip’.”

–Alvin Toffler, Future Shock

Right now, go to your favorite music-screaming platform and search “seldomfence ethos.”

Sam Sussman thinks Bob Dylan might be his dad – and he’s written a book about it

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/sam-sussman-bob-dylan-son-book-b2817929.html

Sam Sussman thinks Bob Dylan might be his dad – now he’s written a novel about his rumoured lineage

At the same New York City apartment where Bob Dylan and his mother used to meet in the Seventies, the 34-year-old writer speaks with Jim Farber about the questions surrounding his family tree, and what it means to spin his life into art in his new novel

The Independent

Everything will be OK, we can officially blame the French now…

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
https://quillette.com/2024/05/07/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-foucault-lyotard-derrida/

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West

Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.

Quillette