Sean Gallagher  πŸ€ 

@thepacketrat@infosec.exchange
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Principal Threat Poker @ Sophos X-Ops. Natsec/Infosec Editor Emeritus and now infrequent contributor @ Ars Technica. Ex Navy officer and actual battleship sailor. Verified cat furniture. Bird paparazzo. Still mostly s***posting as @thepacketrat@twitter.com. Also federating @thepacketrat and @thepacketrat
Works atSophos
Works asPrincipal Threat Researcher
Non-Infosec thingsbirds, pottery, shoulder cats, media criticism, natsec
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/thepacketrat
bloghttps://fancybearfriends.org
Work bloghttps://news.sophos.com/en-us/author/sean-gallagher/
There are also some hidden tributes to friends in some of the data...

I've made various improvements to CyberThreaterator over lunch breaks, while watching TV, and other non-work brain cycles. There's a plan here: eventually, I want to produce full threat briefs on demand for imaginary actors with IoCs and the rest of what you'd need to protect yourself against them if they were real.

Maybe even a pew-pew map.

Night Herons nesting in Fells Point have gotten…numerous.
Team building exercise.
For millenia these guys have swooped around marshes, creeks and ponds virtually unchanged (other than in size, possibly), the apex predators of airborne invertebrates (and in nymph node, of aquatic ones). Let's not f**k things up for one kind of evolutionary perfection (cats and sharks being other examples).
Oh hi Evinrude

Been on radio silence here for a bit. Things are going well. I have finished up the first portion of my onboarding experience at Cisco and am now getting myself up to speed on the ways of Talos threat intelligence. All the people here are awesome. I am stoked.

Also, here’s someone who dropped by today to give me some hints on using Synapse.

Mockingbird auditioned for National Bird, but couldn't keep the sarcasm out of his voice.
Some of the initial contributions are bangers.
A little 'Circle of Life' moment from this weekend: A female Cooper's Hawk swooped in and snatched a timberdoodle we were watching, just as I was getting the camera ready....