sysadmin to Cybersecurity “expert” with just experience of putting one fire out on to the next. Always glad to help USCG-Vet

Dallas, TX
Joined October 2021
Chris LaFleur retweeted
Here's my update to the broader community about the ongoing incident investigation. I want to give you the rundown of the situation directly. A Vercel employee got compromised via the breach of an AI platform customer called Context.ai that he was using. The details are being fully investigated. Through a series of maneuvers that escalated from our colleague’s compromised Vercel Google Workspace account, the attacker got further access to Vercel environments. Vercel stores all customer environment variables fully encrypted at rest. We have numerous defense-in-depth mechanisms to protect core systems and customer data. We do have a capability however to designate environment variables as “non-sensitive”. Unfortunately, the attacker got further access through their enumeration. We believe the attacking group to be highly sophisticated and, I strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI. They moved with surprising velocity and in-depth understanding of Vercel. At the moment, we believe the number of customers with security impact to be quite limited. We’ve reached out with utmost priority to the ones we have concerns about. All of our focus right now is on investigation, communication to customers, enhancement of security measures, and sanitization of our environments. We’ve deployed extensive protection measures and monitoring. We’ve analyzed our supply chain, ensuring Next.js, Turbopack, and our many open source projects remain safe for our community. The recommendation for all Vercel customers is to follow the Security Bulletin closely (vercel.com/kb/bulletin/verce…). My advice to everyone is to follow the best practices of security response: secret rotation, monitoring access to your Vercel environments and linked services, and ensuring the proper use of the sensitive env variables feature. In response to this, and to aid in the improvement of all of our customers’ security postures, we’ve already rolled out new capabilities in the dashboard, including an overview page of environment variables, and a better user interface for sensitive env var creation and management. As always, I’m totally open to your feedback. We’re working with elite cybersecurity firms, industry peers, and law enforcement. We’ve reached out to Context to assist in understanding the full scale of the incident, in an effort to protect other organizations and the broader internet. I also want to thank the Google Mandiant team for their active engagement and assistance. It’s my mission to turn this attack into the most formidable security response imaginable. It’s always been a top priority for me. Vercel employs some of the most dedicated security researchers and security-minded engineers in the world. I commit to keeping you updated and rolling out extensive improvements and defenses so you, our customers and community, can have the peace of mind that Vercel always has your back.
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Chris LaFleur retweeted
i havent laughed at a video this hard for years lmao
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Something big is happening. Select fearless leaders from @AnthropicAI and TrendAI™ are converging to talk about securing what’s next. 🛡️ Get actionable #AIsecurity insights in a closed-door conversation unlike any other. Secure your spot: spr.ly/6011B6NnFP
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We announced a strategic partnership with @AnthropicAI to enable organizations to adopt AI securely and responsibly. Together, TrendAI™ and Anthropic are advancing vulnerability discovery while ensuring coordinated action in real-world risk reduction. spr.ly/6010B64EQg
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Behind the scenes footage
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Built for AI. Ready for next. A new era for enterprise security is here. Lead the future of AI with #ProactiveSecurity designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI. AI Fearlessly. #TrendAI #AIfearlessly #NewBrand #ComingSoon
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Bigfoot: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional
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Chris LaFleur retweeted
[ZDI-25-176|CVE-2025-2762] (0Day) CarlinKit CPC200-CCPA Missing Root of Trust Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVSS 7.8; Credit: Aaron Luo and Spencer Hsieh of VicOne) zerodayinitiative.com/adviso…
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✨ The holiday season is upon us! ✨ From everyone at Trend Micro, we send our warmest wishes for a holiday season filled with happiness, peace, and of course, security. Thank you for your continued trust and support. See you again in 2025! 🎉
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Digital Forensics is a science and art! In the Yellow Volume of our Infosec Survival Guide, Blake Regan @Zer0C00L, breaks down the art of digital forensics, career paths you can take to becoming a digital forensics investigator, and resources to help you in your career! Resources: Blue Team Tactics by Blake regan - blueteamtactics.net Attack Tactics 6: Return of the Blue Team - youtu.be/c7x5JsR16Qw Blue Team Summit - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… A Blue Team's Perspective on Red Team Hack Tools - youtu.be/0mIN2OU5hQE blackhillsinfosec.com/blog/ Open-Source Tools: Forensic Tool Kit (FTK) Imager - exterro.com/forensic-toolkit Autopsy Forensics Suite - autopsy.com Volatility (memory analysis) - volatilityfoundation.org Zimmerman Tools - ericzimmerman.github.io/#lin… Wireshark - wireshark.org iLEAPP and aLEAPP - github.com/abrignoni/iLEAPP github.com/abrignoni/aLEAPP Klogg - klogg.filimonov.dev If you'd like more helpful educational content, check out the Infosec Survival Guide: GREEN BOOK - blackhillsinfosec.com/prompt…
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Static fire of the Flight 7 Super Heavy booster
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Happy Repeal Day! To those who celebrate.
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What is an incident response plan and why is having one so important? Read our comprehensive guide to find out! hubs.la/Q02Xc6lD0
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Cyber Risk Summit Miami Beach is on the way! Join us in thanking our conference co-chairs who are working hard to bring you the stellar programming that makes NetDiligence shine! Conference runs February 10-12, 2025 with registration opening December 17. hubs.la/Q02YgMRq0
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Busy day today, but I’m halfway done with my to do list.
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