Matt Johansen
@mattjay
Helping Secure the Internet | Long Island elder emo surviving in ATX | Expect: infosec current events, DFIR, appsec & cloudsec - and me!
🚨 Exciting thing🚨 I'm getting back to my content creation roots. I've missed blogging, podcasting, and community engagement from back before I worked for big companies with scary PR teams. So... I'm launching a newsletter called Vulnerable U. vulnu.beehiiv.com
Interesting lesson learned from creating as much infosec content as I do these days: lot more schizophrenic people out there than ya realize.
My CISO wants me to force my employees to get a security certification so I'm getting them all TLS certificates from letsencrypt Checked the checkbox, boss
I'm live streaming right now and a few people told me in chat they're excited to watch this webinar I'm doing tomorrow. So, I figured one more push for anyone who missed it - I'm teaming up with some legends at Vanta to talk about their trust and maturity data. Come hang!…

Who else has some of their fondest younger day memories at Ozzfest? Legendary pits.

Bug bounty hunters that paste chatgpt output.
What’s the lowest life form you believe is capable of experiencing consciousness?
New dystopian metric just dropped.
LinkedIn is now processing 11,000 job application submissions per minute—a 45% surge from last year, per NYT
1yr ago… most news was RE: airline disruptions ✈️ … most of my calls were RE: patient care disruptions 🏥
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. wired.com/story/at-least…
Many @ring camera users discussing online that they had multiple unauthorized devices added to their Ring account recently. Curious about this — has anyone else seen unauthorized devices added to their Ring account lately?
Someone can buy this extension that is tied to tons of peole's salesforce account and just ...get access to all that info. (h/t @tuckner)

Spotted this at the book store. Flashbacks to the burned CD of Brood War that got passed around my block to every kid to install and you could see through it it was so scratched. Thousands of hours into this one.

🧐 In our latest Security Maturity Report, one thing stood out: The most trusted security teams aren’t the biggest or the best funded. They’re the ones who adapt quickly and stay honest about what’s working (and what’s not). On July 23 we’re sitting down with @mattjay, founder…
If I was a bad guy who was looking for memory vulns, I'd be ALL OVER these new hotness web browsers. (Comet, Arc, etc.) Market share is small but much more valuable targets. - Teams behind them way smaller than ...Google

I can't believe people are logging into grok with their Twitter accounts - and then talking to the AI girlfriend. Digital footprint forever tied to your identity.
Dino Dai Zovi @dinodaizovi is induced in the @SummerC0n Hall Of Fame alongside @dotMudge @nudehaberdasher and @heidishmoo. Congratulations Dino for an amazing security impact across industry and government. Well deserved!
Wild trend this week of legitimate apps and extensions turning into malware. youtu.be/o9XBXeX0_5E

This week's newsletter is more of a blog/essay format, hope you enjoy! Executive Offense - @arcanuminfosec 's AI Security Scaling Rubric executiveoffense.beehiiv.com/p/executive-of…