Barry Irwin

Herder of lost packets.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

It's a shame too.

Blue Team is infinitely more interesting. I have deep respect and admiration for people who do DFIR, SOC, and DEVSECOPS, etc.

I've learned more from defensive approaches than I have offensive.

Blue Team just isn't as "flashy".

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

That is a wrap of the first @BSidesKrs . A full day with 20 talks - thanks speakers! Great to see most people around right until the end.

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

The final speaker schedule is now out for the inaugral @BSidesKrs happening in in June. https://t.co/qeUu0whOeD #bsideskrs

[BSides Kristiansand @BSidesKrs]

Our Early Bird tickets have sold out. Within two days they were gone. Our main ticket sales are open but those tickets are going fast make sure to get yours.

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

A love letter to the CSV format
https://t.co/5fhXlNm8jH
Long live csv (in all its non standard glory)

[BSides Kristiansand @BSidesKrs]

🚨 Call for Papers is OPEN! 🚨

Got insights on offensive security, defensive strategies, or DFIR? Share them at BSides Kristiansand 2025 on 6 June!

🗓 CFP Deadline: 16 March 2025
🔗 More Information: https://t.co/nog8tV5Jn7
#BSidesKristiansand #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CFP

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

We are looking for someone to jon our #Cyber #Security Teaching Team here in Norway: https://t.co/foPZGTGaWN

[Colin Percival @cperciva]

I just announced two important changes in FreeBSD:

1. The support duration for stable branches is dropping from 5 years to 4 years, starting with FreeBSD 15.x.

2. We will have a predictable release schedule, with a minor release happening most quarters.

https://t.co/1xmJGK2lGW

[💻 Sherrod @sherrod_im]

DNS is the wildest invention by humans. Translating numbers to words and back again is arcane knowledge up there with numerology and sacred geometry. You knew it was witchcraft from the start, yet your hubris continued.

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

An interesting piece of new research on a new amplifying @DDoS attack using DNS #DNSBomb
https://t.co/ygHPHsH7O7

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

@dcuthbert @LiveNation @Ticketmaster A perpetual question with breaches of this size, is how does an org not notice this volume of data exfiltrating? Even over fast it takes a while. Three immediate options:
1 - it is a low and slow leak
2- it went out in a burst (with possible reaction)
3 - What is monitoring ?

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

For those in .uk and .fr, there is useful website with an overview of the D-Day 80 year commemorations next week
https://t.co/J8uJtMscj7

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

An interesting read!

[Istituto G. Germani @FondazioneG]

Tracking the Russian Hybrid Warfare – Cases From Nordic-Baltic Countries - https://t.co/oGsuxK9H4W

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

@dcuthbert You put teams on diet ? Using nearly on 2 gigs here :/

[Wim Remes TR @wimremes]

This.

The key is learning and filling the gaps in knowledge. Gaps you may not even realize exist. Be your own most favorite teacher.

[Herbert Bos @herbertbos]

Very grateful to @ERC_Research and @NWOFunding for both

the ERC Advanced Grant

and

the NWO Gravitation Grant.

(Anyone interested in a PhD or PostDoc in systems security / microarchitectural vulnerabilities, there is a lot of money for research at @vu5ec !)

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

Orignal PLoS article: https://t.co/cD3imXXvCY
World #cybercrime index

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

Inaugral World #cybercrime index released. See: https://t.co/aN75v7wxoc

[Barry Irwin @barryirwin]

DNS more vital than most people think.

[Robin @digininja]

I've had intermittently slow internet connectivity all morning. Just found a VPN client had decided to add its own name server to resolv but as I couldn't reach it I had to wait for a timeout before it would try my real DNS server.

DNS and certs, the big internet killers

[Eloff @eloffd]

Do you think it’s tough to speed up a software project?