It's Australian Information Security Association (AISA) #CyberCon in my home city of Melbourne this week! I'm doing a lot of stuff and hope to see you and grab a coffee or beer!

- Tomorrow, Tuesday 13 October, I teach a free SANS ICS310 course with Bruce Large. https://lnkd.in/gSDsYGcT

- In the evening, I speak at ACS about threats to Australian critical infrastructure and needs for sovereign infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/gNKdVHHX

- Thursday, 15 October, I present my paper on dealing with older commodity malware in legacy OT environments at 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Room 212/213

- Friday, 16 October, I panel with on "Leveraging the Expertise of Migrants in Australian Cybersecurity" at 10:55 am - 11:35 am Melbourne Room 1 with Rini Ismail, Shahani Basheer Rugaiya, and Urit Eshel

- Next week, I teach ICS515 at SANS Melbourne. Excited to see some of you in my class!

I will be at Pride in Cybersecurity and the Block Party as well. Please say hi! I'm still building my community in Australia and I'm working hard to help!

The fact that my ballot appears to have been conveniently lost or delayed by US customs despite every effort to be early and discreet is tied to why I try to avoid going to America anymore at all even as a citizen and why I don’t have services like Global Entry which could be weaponised against me.

I got put back in red team after ten years this week and damn it felt good to pop a few boxes and flex those muscles, but damn bloodhound had some drama and it’s all too dramatic for me.

Mad Max is actually kind of a shitty series because when you move to Australia as a punk and you find all the Mad Max people, they are.... pretty much like all the punks everywhere, and absolutely the people to leave your small child with. It's the... other ones you have to worry about.

One of the Chicago news anchors asked what High School I went to and mate I moved 20,000km to never meet anyone who knows what Naperville is or what it was like being the poor kid there.

You don’t know how it feels when you’ve spent a decade taking to a void about serious threats to faltering water ICS security and the news finally breaks and the headlines are “vulnerable PLCs can be hacked”. I’m just wrecked.

If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I’d be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed.

Just food for thought, but in 43 years of life, I had never seen grocery bread mould (in a normal lifespan to eat a loaf of bread) before I moved from America to Australia. Not once. I didn’t even understand what had happened. And I like, know stuff.

This stage of Fight Club, but at least the SANS crew showed up. 🥹🫠

Ok so, some idiot signed themselves up to teach three international six day classes in a row