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Brian Baskin

@bbaskin.bsky.social
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Just someone that dabbles in threat research, malware analysis, RE, incident response, CTFs, and old school forensics. Apologetic ginger.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I decided to have AI help me redesign my home network for a work malware VLAN ... it did not go well. $250 and hours of troubleshooting later, ChatGPT finally admits its error
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A break from PTO chilling to catch an awesome show with Poppy, LANDMVRKS, and Thousand Below. The first show of their US tour and it was 🔥 🔥
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Lazy web while camping: trying to find a first car for teen but Facebook bans viewing listings unless you're 18 years old Is there any good solution to sharing details of a listing? Other than taking a dozen screenshots or printing to pdf from laptop?
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We're still in the middle of a heat wave but also need a pure disconnect period to break in the camper I've been slowly restoring. First win, the A/C actually works! (trips circuit at home)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank you BSidesVancouver for an awesome event. Happy to present on a modern, unique targeted phishing account, and then win the event @corelight-inc.bsky.social CTF. Credit to the CoreLight platform. I've never used it before but picked it up quickly to finish first.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Slack's shame mode while I'm OOO on PTO is on point
Me: Making a post to work Slack at 6:40AM while on PTO

Slackbot: Hey! We love seeing you, but aren't you supposed to be offline?
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Excited that Sublime Security will be hosting a webinar with @johnhammond.bsky.social on newer email trends. Attackers are shifting to low volume abuse of legitimate services like opportunistic abuse of legitimate services and calendar phishing. sublime.security/events/trend...
sublime.security
Trends to watch in 2026: Calendar phishing and opportunistic service abuse · Events · Sublime Security
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The BSidesCharm CFP is accepting 50-min and 20-min talks. So far, less than 20% of submissions are 20-mins. I don't know who needs to hear this, but shorter talks have a higher likelihood of being accepted ...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best
Ramp EOY review. Award for expensing a 1€ bathroom visit in Gare du Nord Paris
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A gift to myself is fixing my voice. After years of public speaking it took just one car accident w/ yrs of recovery to completely change my speech Now, w/ presentations being scheduled, I realize that I need to fix it. A lot of muscles to retrain, and looking for good resources
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is the fun of my Friday evenings...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I use a chrome extension to remove shittified posts from LinkedIn, such as people liking things. LinkedIn has now continually banned me from using it on any platform.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
When you use your personal email for a work project and end up screwing yourself for 24 hours... New distraction task, find out how my scripts hit a 2000/day limit so quickly
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today was my 8th time under anesthesia within the last year. Joked with anesthesiologist about having a frequent sleeper card to punch while I'm out. Get 10 and get a free breakfast at hospital café 😂 (because each requires fasting through breakfast)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I had some time to work on the RE Rust Tickler challenges from @HuntressLabs recent CTF. Specifically, I wanted to focus on @vector35 Binary Ninja's TTD implementation Over weekend I made some quick write-ups on how I approached these easier challenges. github.com/Rurik/CTF/tr...
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CTF/Huntress_2025 at master · Rurik/CTF
Various CTF code. Contribute to Rurik/CTF development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
AI is going to take over the world!
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
AI - Master of the backhanded compliment
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
LinkedIn: AI is going to take over the world! Be prepared Twitter: AI is kinda helping. It can do some cool things Me: If Claude was a person I would be in jail for aggravated assault
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis! (and fits well on my UW monitor)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A gorgeous start to GrrCon
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ... I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly. And playing with process tree output ... As I do all my best work from hotel rooms.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it. Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
10 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow." Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI."
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂 Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use. You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Home from Vegas and recovering from sickness. But left with a lot of memories. It's been years since I was properly out and I really missed seeing all my friends.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
And cue the random taxi drivers with "DEF CON? So, my phone and all my accounts are hacked. How can I tell if it's a foreign government?" questions
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The Officially Unofficial DEF CON Sticker Swap @dcstickerswap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2. Spread the word…
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My love to the @bsideslv.org team. Being a ginger, and not a day walker, there was a real risk of me dying from the sun. So they gifted me a safety package with umbrella 😂
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work!
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Exhaustion: When you spend two hours trying everything to inject a DLL into a process to drop data, in every which way possible, and then realize you're working on the wrong file.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Vegas will be fun and pleasantly crushing next week. Eight days, four events, and giving two talks For friends I haven't seen since pre-COVID, I'm now sober (still drink at bars) and walk with a limp but am still the same ginger you know and love ... now with long curly hair!
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Slide deck for 20-min talk is almost complete...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
As someone who over-relies on emojis to ensure wrong tone isn't sent, that an automatic Windows update killed emoji panel is frustrating Microsoft admitted the bug then put fix in an optional update (image rolleyes since emoji is broken) learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... So, go update
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Making my life difficult by committing to a theme for a presentation by converting all images into 'stickers' Dozens and dozens of them.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Vegas party invites are starting to go out. Respect to the effort.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
TIL the melting point of a laptop screen internals is roughly 200*F/94*C. Surprisingly, once cooled down, most of the screen returns. Permanent damage but not unusable
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Submitted without context
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
To understand authoritarian government regime change one must look further back in time to similar structures. Most notably, when the AV industry colluded to classify benign cracks and trainers as malicious. In this TED Talk I will (1/16)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
That moment you realize you had deleted a crucial VM snapshot last month because you assumed your talk wouldn't get picked up ... and it did. Self doubt FTW
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm very excited to be accepted to speak at @bsideslv.org this year! Keeping Our History Alive: The Hacker’s Guide to Sticker Preservation I explore the role stickers play in hacker culture w/ a scientific focus on best methods to reuse old stickers to find your tribe in a crowd.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The biggest culture shock in moving from a global tech corporation to a startup is that there is not a No Hello rule.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I've had this game on pause for most of the week just because I don't want to rebuild the cheat table again
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