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Happy New Year! 🎉 I trust you had a great holiday season and brought in the New Year with a bang. 2024 has been an interesting year. Anyone else feel that way? Over the holidays I have been catching up on reading and just finished Offensive Security Using Python. It's a hands-on guide to help build custom pentesting and red team tools using Python, along with tooling for threat detection and incident response. I found the book tries to cover too much, and doesn't go into enough depth into any...

Hey friend 👋, Wow. October disappeared faster than a ghost at dawn – one minute it was haunting, the next it was history! Speaking of ghosts, did you have a cool Halloween costume this year? I thought about going as "The Great Pumpkin"... ... ok, maybe not the best idea I've had. Anyway, as I gorge on some of this halloween candy while in the city, I am staring at a book I picked up last month that you might find interesting. It's called the Web Hacking Arsenal: A Practical Guide to Modern...

Hey friend 👋, Well, I said I was talking most of August off. And I did. So this month in review doesn't include a lot of new articles. But lots of stuff did happen. First, we moved into our new oceanfront villa. That's been a game changer. I haven't had such long and deep sleeps in years. It's so calm and quiet here. And, who doesn't want a home office view like this? 👉🏻 It gave me lots of time to just sit, think, and read. In fact, I read a fascinating book on that deck in just a couple of...

Hey friend 👋, WTF, where did June go? I swear I blinked, and it was gone. Apologies for this newsletter not arriving yesterday. It was Canada Day, and I was out being loud and proud. (Sorry... couldn't resist. 🇨🇦) In all honesty, I was sitting quietly eating cookies and catching up on some reading. And not some funky flavour of Oreos (albeit they have some great Maple Cream Oreos out there), but some patriotic Maple Leaf Peek Freans. IYKYK. Canadians prefer Birthday cookies (or Nanaimo bars...

Hey friend 👋, April has been a bit intense. Ya, it started with jokers putting toothpaste in our Oreos. 🤢 It ended with some well-deserved R&R on the beaches of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. I can't complain too much; I mean, I was also introduced to Churro Oreos... I can't believe these are a thing... ... and it ended with long walks along the beach... Walking along Cox Bay for a week isn't a bad way to decompress... While I was away, I got to finish reading Pegasus: How a Spy in Your...