Rob Sheldon

Cyber Policy & Strategy @CrowdStrike | Adjunct Professor @AU_SIS | All views are 140 character reductions of my own

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

1 | Stuck at home? Catch up on security talks. Some classics & favs from recent years:

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

Bit flipping mice genes for fun and profit

[Zane Koch @zanehkoch]

ok actually insane paper published yesterday

a research group in Korea built a gene switch you can control wirelessly using electromagnetic fields

they exposed mice to 60 hz EMF (same frequency as your wall outlet) using a pair of large coils that generate a uniform magnetic field around the animal, for cyclic 3-day on / 4-day off pulses

they showed this could:
- activate OSK to do epigenetic reprogramming in progeroid and aged mice, extending lifespan and reversing aging markers across multiple tissues
- conditionally switch on mutant amyloid genes only in aged mouse brains, letting them separate aging effects from amyloid effects to study AD biology in a way previous models couldn't

no drugs, no impacts, just a magnetic field from outside the body

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

You can just do things

[R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore]

Fruit of the Loom Japan launches suit pack in 12oz cotton jersey

This is the most Japan market take of an American brand thing I’ve seen so far

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

Interesting to reflect that, in 2016, the 2020 timeframe felt plausible. (I wouldn’t have bet on it, but thought it could’ve been a reasonable betting line.)

Even now, Adult R&B != Hot 100, so could still be some time yet. Things are moving fast, but only so fast.

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

First @billboard Hot 100 song written/composed by AI by 2020, yes?

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

One nice thing about being in my late 30s is that I can tell Zoomer friends: “here is an ancient text with timeless wisdom about your present situation” and it’s a blog post from 2011.

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

CrowdStrike hosted leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss today’s top cyber threats – from nation-state adversaries to eCrime actors – and the power of public-private collaboration.

[adam_cyber @Adam_Cyber]

The use of threat actor codenames is not an attempt to avoid naming and shaming specific adversaries - recent critiques of this practice are misguided.

Read more about adversary naming in a new blog post by myself and Rob Sheldon -

https://t.co/ACnXrTTVqA

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

Update: Our preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) is available at the link below.  Details include the incident overview, remediation actions, and preliminary learnings. More to come in our full Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Automated recovery techniques, coupled with strategic service delivery partners, have rapidly accelerated resolution.

We can’t repeat enough, we’re aware of the impact and deeply sorry this occurred. We want to thank our customers and industry partners for their support and assistance following the release of a faulty content update. We know what happened and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Stay informed with the latest news and updates on our remediation hub: https://t.co/VxZdW6gKmt

[adam_cyber @Adam_Cyber]

Continuing to see threat actors leveraging @CrowdStrike to target systems - here’s the latest activity we have observed:

https://t.co/coB1HcmGDl

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

In time, we’ll have a concept of “low-background writing,” for works produced prior to the intro of LLMs, and possibly also never digitized

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

🤝 "As a community, we should have confidence that we are improving the long term resiliency of our digital ecosystem. We must not leave consequential, strategic policy challenges, like addressing IT stack concentration risk, unmet for yet another day."

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Bob's my nickname. Robert is my nicholasname.

[ITI @ITI_TechTweets]

This week, ITI Vice President of Government Affairs Mike Flynn joined leaders from @CISAgov, @HomelandGOP @HomelandDems, and ITI member @CrowdStrike for a panel discussion on the future of cyber incident reporting moderated by @InsideCyber's Sara Friedman.

[adam_cyber @Adam_Cyber]

The CSRB findings from the summer 2023 breach of Microsoft are both alarming and confirm many of the concerns I've voiced about the risk of overreliance on their products. @Microsoft is a national security threat and it's time to take it seriously! 🧵

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

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💻 Full news release: https://t.co/quQVhl0yiu

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

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[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

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Humorous exchange on AI between Anne Neuberger and Jim Lewis at yesterday’s @CSIS event on the Counter Ransomware Initiative.

Full event here: https://t.co/LimwuQ3sqD

[Rob Sheldon @shorttelegrams]

@RobTerrin @wadebaker @jayjacobs @brysonbort @HockeyInJune @digitalbond @DanielMiessler @ffwang2 Both. The questions are really: from what baselines, and along what trajectories?

I wrote a bit about defender/attacker use cases here: https://t.co/dmHBQhLeu3

[adam_cyber @Adam_Cyber]

There are a lot of hacktivist groups and known adversaries engaged in the cyber conflict around the #IsraelPalestineConflict.
@CrowdStrike pulled together a graphic to highlight some of what we're seeing.