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Matthew Flanagan

@mattimustang.com

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Director and Principal Cyber Security Consultant @cybliminal.com

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Matthew Flanagan @mattimustang.com · 19/05/2026

I had a great time presenting to the @bsidesmelbourne.bsky.social crowd on the weekend. Thanks to the crew and volunteers for running such a welcoming, vibrant conference, with a great selection of talks! Big ❤️ to Edwina Richards for the photos! #BSidesMelb2026 #WontSomebodyPleaseEatTheFruit

Matthew Flanagan on stage at BSides Melbourne 2026. Presenting "Panning for Gold: A Hackers Guide to Next Generation Firewalls"

Audience watching Matthew Flanagan on stage at BSides Melbourne 2026. Presenting "Panning for Gold: A Hackers Guide to Next Generation Firewalls". "oh shit there goes the planet" meme on screen.

Audience watching and taking photos of slides from Matthew Flanagan on stage at BSides Melbourne 2026. Presenting "Panning for Gold: A Hackers Guide to Next Generation Firewalls".

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Matthew Flanagan @mattimustang.com · 29/09/2025

Thanks again to @bsidescbr.bsky.social for inviting me to present my research on living off the land on Palo Alto Networks firewalls as well as sharing new tools I’ve developed to creatively misuse 😜 firewall features for credential harvesting and port scanning. Some great questions too!

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Matthew Flanagan @mattimustang.com · 29/09/2025

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Matthew Flanagan @mattimustang.com · 13/12/2024

#PaloAltoNetworks has just released a PANOS update, 10.2.13, which includes this interesting little fix. Looking at the portal logs from the management console or CLI I can't see any cleartext passwords being logged in regular or debug mode. docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/...

Palo Alto Network PANOS 10.2.13 releasenotes showing fix for GlobalProtect protal logging passwords in cleartext.

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