Gabe The Engineer

Current cyber insurance executive. Former lead data scientist @VZDBIR. Co-inventor of Attack Flow. Views are my own. Mostly at bsky.app/profile/gdbassett.bsk these days.

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2025-03-28

@Viss @da_667 Hot tub salt system with network connection is the dream

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2025-03-26

Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

mander.xyz/post/27159282

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2025-03-24

@bontchev Isn't that a whole genre? Lost comes to mind. Also Heroes.

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2025-03-19

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how CISOs can more effectively talk about the cost of a cyber incident to the board and C-suite.

Thanks to Amanda Draeger @TindrasGrove, Gary Brickhouse of GuidePoint Security and Stephen Boyer of Bitsight for their insight.

csoonline.com/article/3844334/

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2025-03-19

@eljojo @TindrasGrove @riamaria North America and we're working to get it posted in Canada as well.

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JOB ALERT

Are you interested in cyber insurance? Come work with me!

libertymutual1.avature.net/LSM

Location: Europe, prefer France or Germany

Additional skills: looking for proficiency in German, French, or Arabic language

I’m not the hiring manager (that’s @gdbassett ) but I’m happy to answer any questions about what it’s like doing the job.

#GetFediHired #FediHired #NowHiring #PleaseComeWorkWithMe

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Very Hairy Jerryjerry@infosec.exchange
2024-11-27

Friends, today is the day before Thanksgiving here in the US. Friday is also a holiday for many people here so that we have the day off to go buy stuff that looks like it is on sale but really isn't.

What does that mean to you? It means that it is time. Time to push that code to production. Push it like it's never been pushed before. Use all the git flags.

Testing is for people who are not confident in their abilities, and we don't have time for that sort of negativity around here.

Today is your day.

Tomorrow, and beyond? That is ops problem.

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2024-10-31

Hey Y'all, I'm hiring in Australia for a cyber security risk engineer. What's a risk engineer you say? Basically the subject matter experts on the cyber insurance side. We help folks make good infosec decisions. If you're interested or know someone, head to linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-bas

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2024-09-27

If there is a RCE vulnerability in CUPS, would someone mind configuring mine for duplex printing, please?

#Linux #CUPS #cybersecurity

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2024-08-25

@joelmeador @tinker

We've got a 18+ that germinated from seed sent to us by @jblue (who I still need to reimburse for shipping).

Keep them in a ziplock with damp sawdust/papertowel/rag in the fridge. We kept ours at the very bottom of the lowest drawer for several months, then shoved them in leftover potting soil / compost mix.

Same technique for persimmon.

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Tarah Wheeler πŸ––β™¦οΈTarah@infosec.exchange
2024-08-07

I'm going to prove a point and you're going to help me.

If you're a member of the information security and/or cybersecurity profession, and you have clicked on a phish in the last, say, five years, share this post. If you have not, star this post.

Someone's trying to say that you can punish people out of clicking on scam links and I say that not only can you NOT prevent phishing by punishing people, but the most skilled #infosec and #cybersecurity people in the world can and do get phished as well.

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2024-07-31

If you're not interested, but know someone, please encourage them! We serve a diverse and global community and so are open toa wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and identities.

The position isn't posted yet, but I wanted to get the word out in case anyone wanted to chat about it in Las Vegas next week. I'll be there Sunday to Sunday. See you then!

Gabe The Engineergdbassett
2024-07-31

Hey y'all, I'm hashtag#hiring in Australia! It's a combination architect, engineer, GRC role. Looking for good communication skills and ability to handle complexity and uncertainty. You'll be helping underwriters understand the cyber risk of the organizations they're working to insure as well as helping those insureds improve their security.

1/2

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2024-07-29

Fifteen years ago today, a group of hackers and security pros got together and made a little thing happen, the first ever BSides, in Las Vegas. @BSidesLV

Things took off from there.

The next BSides on the event calendar is BSides Las Vegas, and it will be event number 1002.

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu β˜€οΈ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2024-07-26

#145 {infer} package: Perform statistical inference using an expressive statistical grammar

Thoughts: Great tool for teaching based inference (and ), by making hypothesis testing explicit.

tidyverse.org/blog/2021/08/inf

theoretical (NHST) based inference (asymptotic p-value) randomization / bootstrapped based statistical inference (exact p-value)
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Laura Manach :bongoCat:cmconseils
2024-07-25

The moon appeared inside the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, in breach of the Olympic Brand Guide.

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2024-07-23

LLMs are tools for generating consensus-conforming phrases in the language implied by their training data.

That language is not, for example, normative English (and it probably couldn't be). Imagine a language that includes slang and shifting between multiple dialects and discrete languages.

It's very hard to make a natural language where mathematically incorrect statements are also ungrammatical according to consensus grammar (i.e., "feel wrong" when written).

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2024-07-22

πŸ“¦ ggseg3d
πŸ“ Tri-Surface Mesh Plots for Brain Atlases

πŸ”— cran.r-project.org/web/package

πŸ€–#RStats

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Effin' Birdseffinbirds
2024-07-21
A painting of a bird next to the words "I knew it was going to be a clusterfuck, but this is some huge-ass clusterfuck"
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Sheril KirshenbaumSheril
2024-07-20

Relatable.

Text next to Dory from Finding Nemo: I CANT BUY ANOTHER BOOK OH LOOK! A BOOKSTORE!

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