JTan the Cybersecurity Man

Father | Tech Sales Consultant | MSgt (ret) Louisiana ANG | Saints and LSU fan | founder of SWLA Cyber Club Meetup | Works@GDS | Opinions are my own

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starbase Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth!

SpaceX makes sci-fi real.

[JTan the Cybersecurity Man @jayseetee]

Remain vigilant!

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

🚨 BANK FRAUD ALERT | Your Mailbox Could Be the Weakest Link

Think check fraud is a thing of the past?

Unfortunately, it’s making a major comeback.

Criminals are stealing checks from residential mailboxes and USPS collection boxes, then using a process known as “check washing.” They chemically remove the original ink, rewrite the payee and amount, or use the account information to create counterfeit checks. Financial institutions across the country continue to report check fraud as one of the fastest-growing payment fraud threats.

How to Protect Yourself

📬 Don’t leave outgoing mail in your mailbox overnight. If possible, drop it inside your local Post Office or use a USPS collection box before the last scheduled pickup.

🖊️ Use a gel pen when writing checks. The ink is more difficult to remove than standard ballpoint ink.

📱 Monitor your checking account frequently and enable transaction alerts so you can spot unauthorized activity quickly.

📄 Review cleared check images in your online banking. Look for altered payees, amounts, or unfamiliar check numbers.

💳 Consider electronic payments when appropriate, especially for larger transactions.

🚨 Report missing checks or suspicious activity immediately to your financial institution. The sooner fraud is reported, the better the chances of limiting losses.

A single stolen check doesn’t just expose the money from that payment—it also gives criminals your routing number, account number, name, and address, which can be used to create counterfeit checks or attempt additional fraud.

Protect your mailbox. Protect your checks. Protect your account.

#BankFraud #FraudWatch #CheckFraud #CheckWashing #FraudPrevention #FinancialCrime #ConsumerProtection #IdentityTheft #BankingSecurity #StayAlert

[Dave Kennedy @HackingDave]

Alright, I've stayed away from the Mythos stuff for a little bit. Going to comment on that, but AI as a whole.

First, this AI industry is absolutely insane. I feel like I'm back in the 90s/2000s with innovation, but it's not tempered or methodical - it's pure chaos.

Everyday there is some AI-dude-bro (or gal) clawing for followers claiming end of cybersecurity, end of software engineering, or this breakthrough changes everything. We're seeing the "streamer" effect of video games now exploding in every industry that hasn't been in whatever industry, but is now a AI-expert thus an expert in anything AI touches because they can prompt.

Largely it's not, but what it is doing is requiring us to understand what AI will do to virtually every industry in the future. I'm sitting here right now at a conference I'm presenting at, and I spoke with an individual which was like man... I'm just trying to get through this SAP implementation at my company, I don't even know where to start with AI at the moment.

We are still in the extreme early stages of what AI can do, and I think that's really the exciting part - we are at the infancy stages of this.

Most enterprise can't handle AI, as most companies couldn't handle agile workflow when it came out either, it took time, but eventually adopted.

I won't dive deep into the scalability of releasing AI to the masses based on compute, power, or subsidies because these are real hurdles we need to solve. As you can see with Claude's spike in popularity is causing them to have to dumb the model down upwards of 65% just to stay afloat (Claude is absolutely awful right now for coding - beware).

Mythos is cool, really cool - but it's not earth shattering as claimed. The potential here we are seeing a glimpse of what can actually happen though.

The ability to do extremely complex tasks, with insane context windows, and high-end reasoning. But, what we saw from other current frontier models including open LLMs, they were able to find the same issues, but had to be specifically targeted towards those code sections because of context limitations and complex task reasoning which was drastically improved in Mythos.

What does this mean? Basically. Nothing. It's a lot of marketing hype - but it does prove out that as these models become smarter, it will inevitably produce much better code, be able to work in mind blowing fashions that we haven't seen before - but it will all come down to cost. Right now Mythos is extremely expensive because of the compute needed, and we may solve that over time, but it's not there yet.

The subsidies right now means AI is not ready. Scale is our biggest bottleneck right now and until that's solved, the industry will not move as fast as it could.

What's particularly impressive is how the open models are starting to perform on par (or better) with the frontier models and become way more efficient without restrictions (turboquant) as an example.

Our ability to use near parity models on our own hardware will only continue to get better which is a huge threat for these companies. I at first looked at Cursor's implementation of Kimi as they were falling behind because it wasn't "their own model". That wasn't accurate, its that the open models are performing substantially better than from 6 months ago, and will soon be leading the charge or close to it.

What does this mean for cybersecurity? The industry is changing rapidly, and I absolutely freaking love it. We needed a swift kick in the ass in this industry that was largely stagnant for the past 10-15 years.

What used to be a handful of incredibly talented security researchers that knew systems internals, savants at reverse engineering and reading through millions of lines of ASM is now being afforded to the masses, but still has a long way to go.

The reason AI is so good at doing this stuff is because they paved the way, and will continue to do so in different ways. Not eliminated or removed, enhanced and better than ever. AI is single handedly the largest theft of plagiarism that has ever happened in human history. I just got a 10K check from Claude for ripping off my Metasploit book to train its model to be smarter actually :P

I am all for things that make the world a safer place. Our goal in cybersecurity is to fix the world, make it less harmful when using technology - we should be adopting this. Note that it's going to come with a ton of fluff, hype, doomsday predictions, people that are now AI exports or coding experts but have never written a line of code themselves. That's all to be expected if you have ever been to an RSA conference. AI will product meaningful change in an industry that needed it.

Cybersecurity is much more than bugs or defects, it's protecting against risk. AI is a new emerging risk, it's going to keep us insanely busy right now, and for the foreseeable future.

[Jacques Doucet @JacquesDoucet]

The other day I had my hands full struggling to get into the PMAC for a @LSUgym presser. Who opened the door for me with a smile on his face and a hello but Matt McMahon. This is big time collegiate athletics. McMahon was paid a lot of money to win basketball games and that didn’t happen. But in a world where human decency is quickly disappearing, I greatly appreciate someone who certainly has it. I wish Coach McMahon nothing but the absolute best moving forward. He’s a good man. @LSUBasketball #LSU

[Stephen Sims @Steph3nSims]

I want to share a quick thought for people in cyber security. This will be my longest tweet ever.

I’ve spoken to many lately who are having an existential crisis from the constant posts about “the end of cybersecurity jobs.”

Yes, things are changing quickly. This is a significant moment for the tech industry. Change can be uncomfortable. But we’ve seen cycles like this before.

• When GitHub and open source took off, people said software engineers would disappear because code was free.
• When AWS and cloud computing emerged, people said infrastructure jobs would vanish.
• When fuzzing and SAST tools improved, people said vulnerability research would disappear.
• Virtualization would eliminate infrastructure jobs.
• Mobile computing was going to end desktop dev.
• Exploit mitigations would end exploitability. It didn't.

Each time automation improved, the amount of software grew faster than the automation. It does feel "different" this time as it's explosive.
Some roles will shrink:
• repetitive pentesting
• basic vulnerability scanning
• tier-1 SOC monitoring

But other areas are expanding rapidly:

• AI system security
• supply chain security
• identity architecture
• autonomous agent security
• critical infrastructure protection

Historically, every time we eliminate one class of bugs, new classes emerge. Right now people are vibe-coding entire systems, giving AI access to their machines, crossing trust boundaries, and deploying autonomous agents with excessive permissions. The legal and regulatory world is nowhere close to ready.

There will absolutely be new failure modes. Humans are amazing and always adapt, finding new ways to do things.

The worst thing you can do right now is fall into a doom loop.

...and I’ll be honest, I too have felt the "psychological paralysis" a few times thinking, “Is this time different?” It's especially impactful when it comes from someone I respect in the community. There are certainly unknowns, in an industry where we've become accustomed to predictability.

But... the majority of those reactions are usually driven by social media, not reality. Platforms like X reward engagement, and sensational doom posts spread faster than measured thinking.
If you see something like:
“Holy #$%^! Opus 66.6 just found every bug in Chrome and replaced 50 startups!”

…mute it and move on.

Instead:

Stay curious.
Learn the new technology.
Adapt your skillsets.
Build things.

We’ll get through this transition the same way we always have. If I'm wrong then Sam Altman better be right about UBI! :) I'm sure that if this tweet gets any engagement that I'll get some heat for it, but a good friend of mine reminds me often to focus on what you have control over. I'll revisit this tweet at DEF CON 40!

[Michael Bonnette @LSUBonnette]

#LSU only school in America to draw crowds of 10,000-plus for 3 sports @LSUbaseball @LSUgym @LSUwbkb over the weekend.... and it was #MardiGras. Thanks fans for helping make us #justdifferent . @TheBrandLSU
Weekend Attendance:
Gym: 11,171
WBKB: 13,200
BSB: 11,582; 11,078; 10,753

[D1Baseball @d1baseball]

Who’s winning the 2026 Men's College World Series? 👀

279 programs cast votes – and defending champion @LSUbaseball led the way. Agree or disagree?

[T-Bob Hebert @TBob53]

Scary stuff

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

"None of this is possible without @SeanPayton and Mickey Loomis,"

- @DrewBrees

[Sean Payton @SeanPayton]

He came when most were leaving...Set a bar so high for all of us....He lead immediately....
He's OUR 1st Ballot HOF QB!
Congratulations Drew Brees. Also, Congratulations to Your wife Brittany, Baylen, Bowen, Callen and Rylen. It was an honor to have coached you.

[JTan the Cybersecurity Man @jayseetee]

@ZVR09 Agreed

[Zach Von Rosenberg @ZVR09]

Hey @ToddGraves for the lore, help us offer Nick Saban 5 years $125million. I’ll commit to a box combo a week until my demise.

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

✔️ Before scanning QR codes at restaurants or events: make sure the link looks legit, check for tampering, and when in doubt, type the URL manually.
Do you use QR codes often? Let us know.
#QRCodeSafety #TechTips #CyberHygiene

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

🤖 Scammers can clone your loved one’s voice and call you for money. Agree on a family “safe word” and always verify with a call you make.
Have you set up a safe word? Share in the replies.
#AIFraud #VoiceScam #FamilySafety
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[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

Protecting our teens from scams is just as important as protecting our seniors.

Scammers are adapting, and young people are becoming more frequent targets through social media, gaming platforms, and text messages.

At SAFE Net SWLA, we’re working to make sure every age group understands how these schemes work and how to respond. Education today can prevent costly mistakes tomorrow.

You can read more in our latest post here:
https://t.co/gJRPyFgYt8

Find all our resources here: https://t.co/EJWceuxOpX

#ScamPrevention #TeenSafety #FraudAwareness #SAFE_Net_SWLA

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

💙 Thank you to everyone who follows, shares, and supports our mission.
@SAFE_Net_ is powered by people who care.
Let’s finish the week strong.
#GratitudePost #ScamAwareness #CommunitySupport

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

Please make sure to inform the older adults in your life about this!! #ScamAwareness #FraudEducation

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

🧵 What’s a scam you almost fell for?
No shame — just stories.
Let’s build awareness together.
Tag someone who needs to hear it.
#ScamStories #ThinkBeforeYouClick #FraudFighters

[tik @twosuh]

One of the greatest hires in LSU sports history. Grand slam hire by Scott Woodward.

[SAFE Net SWLA @SAFE_Net_]

Elder abuse is a huge issue around the country and especially here in Louisiana. Please do what you can to help this extremely vulnerable community!! #ScamAwareness #FraudEducation
#ElderAbuse