Mark Maunder

Wordfence Founder & CEO. Instrument pilot out of KAPA and KORS. Ham radio nerd (WT1J). I run a team of kickass engineers & cybersecurity experts.

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Look around you. The world is an amazing place full of awesome people.

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Built a thing. Got tired of being held for release from KORS for Boeing field after calling approach and being told there’s no metering.

https://t.co/qBRrUBj6wA

#ifr #flying #pilotshit

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Apple firing Steve Jobs in 1985 is about to lose its trophy. #NVDA

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Fable 5.2 is probably the biggest step up in model capability you'll see given the trillion dollar incentive of imminent IPO. So take the win people.

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Fable 5.2 is unbelievable. Solved a hard bug in minutes that Codex CLI Astra max had been struggling with for hours. Game changer.

[Wordfence @wordfence]

Wordfence 9.1.0 Is Here: Adding Several New Security Features to Keep Your Sites Safer

• Wordfence Security News Widget
• Faster firewall rule updates
• Live Traffic now logs failed REST API and application password logins
• Configurable attack alert thresholds, PHP 8.6 compatibility and more.

Read the full post: https://t.co/cqBlJ9zsIg

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Holy shit. Dell are shipping garbage. Second crash this morning for me on a brand new XPS 14 only days old. Here's an Omarchy Linux thread reporting the same thing.

https://t.co/Kba6RJ0Wzr

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Best to avoid Dell XPS laptops for now. Random shutdown under ubuntu Linux. Turns out it's a thing and there's no solution. Heard DHH on Lex's podcast raving about the latest XPS's. Turn's out they have what seems to be a systemic issue with 6 pages of reports. https://t.co/bHR95YKSFt

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Indeed.

[Thomas Heal @ThomasHeal]

@rough__sea It’s software engineering not software typing

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Best to avoid Dell XPS laptops for now. Random shutdown under ubuntu Linux. Turns out it's a thing and there's no solution. Heard DHH on Lex's podcast raving about the latest XPS's. Turn's out they have what seems to be a systemic issue with 6 pages of reports. https://t.co/bHR95YKSFt

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

What Greg said.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

security architecture fundamentals are more important than ever before

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

What’s incredibly sad is that this is going to include code. Closed source by default. Yeah, I hate it too.

[Ed Sim @edsim]

JPMorgan Chase CISO 👇

we spent decades making everything reachable and building security around it.

now, with autonomous AI agents, we may spend the next decade making only what needs to be reachable visible at all.

private by default 🔥

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

4X faster than regular geostationary birds to be clear, but yeah. Avoiding establishing TCP connections over a high-latency link, using a better congestion algorithm, taking a broken proxy out of the chain, and compressing will increase happiness in a sad world of “we refuse to install starlink due to reasons”.

[th0rgal @thomasmc]

Life hack if your flight doesn't have Starlink: ask your agent to bypass the 443 split-TCP proxy via a $0.03/h BBR multiplexer and get ~4× faster, reset-free internet.

Open-sourcing it from the clouds: https://t.co/TBH5uRX9AO

[Matt 'TK' Taylor @MattieTK]

EmDash will not add a /random endpoint for fun that you have to opt out of.

It's a serious CMS.

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Proposed /random in WP core is Unpagerank. Raises up long-tail content that’s been oppressed since Google turned an egalitarian Web into a hierarchical zombie fest. Turn it on by default.

[Mark Jansen @mark_jansen]

Why on earth would we want this in #WordPress core? I mean, some one creating a plugin for this, sure. If you have the website for it, fun. Great. But in core? Why?

https://t.co/AjFjE4ARVS

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Late stage MSM - when all you have left is the red spectacles and the hand gestures.

[Project Vice @project_vice]

🚨NEW: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick sat down today with @WSJ to discuss the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI.

The interviewer literally said straight to his face that they don’t have any major hits, despite the huge success of GTA 5 and Red Dead 2… 💀

Strauss’ reaction says it ALL… What a clueless clown she is… 🤡😭

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Holy shit. Biggest crypto heist ever was social engineering. I saw done against a major corp at DEF CON social media village a few years ago. Get the employee in a “you’re being evaluated” headspace and they’re putty. Red Team your team ppl.

“The second interview was conducted in a popular social chat app, near the end of the interview, Engineer B was instructed to download an “assignment” containing a malicious code repository onto his work computer. The repository contained malicious code that executed during the setup process, initiating a series of unauthorized activities.”

[Binance @binance]

https://t.co/sU9dUqLQDH

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

@michelmunger Thanks Michel!!

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

Hi Michael. We’ve had to massively increase our research and R&D spend given the new threat environment. That sounds vague so I’ll provide some specifics: Spending on AI tokens alone is $25,000 to $80,000 per month, depending on whether we did a big research run or not. Harness development for Argus, PRISM and Eclipse takes a huge amount of dev resources, even AI accelerated - which goes back to that token budget. Enterprise AI programs like OpenAI and Anthropic red team access and cyber verification programs. Open models like DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM which are cyber capable and used by attackers - our openrouter spend is massive. And investing in our people who have careers, healthcare, families, etc. On top of all our usual expenses both R&D and operational etc. Believe me this isn’t some sort of cash grab and we haven’t been acquired by anyone who is bleeding the company and customers. We remain fully independent and deeply committed to our mission of making the Web safer and protecting your website investment. This is what that takes. For context: I’m the founder and CEO and I own Wordfence/Defiant with my wife and co-founder. We’re the last remaining WP security company that is 100% founder owned. I hope you’ll stay with us. We’ve got your back.

[Wordfence @wordfence]

HTTP2Shell: What the Critical Brotli Vulnerability Means for WordPress Sites

Update Brotli to version 1.0.10, 1.1.1, 1.2.1 as soon as possible.

https://t.co/vZE3vv7uVl

[Wordfence @wordfence]

WordPress 7.1.4 Patches Unauthenticated Upgrade-Window RCE; Exploitation Attempts Detected After Release

Update to 7.1.4 or your branch's fix as soon as possible.

https://t.co/5phEHoqBnH

[Mark Maunder @mmaunder]

I flip "a layered approach" on its head when assessing aviation risk. Even when any single layer isn't enough to declare an emergency, if you stack them it might be. In this case it was smoke, smell, carbon monoxide and a jump start on the ground. https://t.co/ENR7ChIMxr