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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's the last day for early bird tickets for the PoC year of Boston's MINUTECON. I will be keynoting!

Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There is a new cybersecurity con coming to Boston this spring, MinuteCon! Boston has a long history of cybersecurity impact going back to the @l0pht.bsky.social days in the 90s but hasn't had a major hackerish oriented con since Source Boston 10 yrs ago. Looking forward to this! www.minutecon.org

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

28 years ago today, 7 members of the hacking group L0pht Heavy Industries told the U.S. Senate they could "shut down the internet in 30 minutes."

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Phrack call for papers is out! Check out the cool demoscene graphics at phrack.org

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Doesn't everyone watch Akira on LaserDisc with their figurines?

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you have any photos or stories to share please reply here. This is a photo of Par in Times Square during HOPE in 2006.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My wife @debdebdeb.bsky.social and I are heartbroken to share the sad news that our old friend @jasonsnitker.bsky.social AKA Parmaster, has passed away.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In order to collect a bug bounty, a researcher was required to sign an NDA to not discuss the vulnerability. zuernerd.github.io/blog/2026/01...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Barnaby Jack dragged this attack class into the open in 2010 with a live BlackHat demo & coined the term jackpotting. He showed ATMs are just poorly defended computers w/cash attached. 15 yrs later attackers are still proving him right. Vendors/operators keep relearning the same lesson the hard way

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New from Anthropic. red.anthropic.com/2026/cyber-t...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The Conscience of a Hacker” by The Mentor is 40 years old today.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Delchi and I having a pre-party discussion at @L0phtHeavyInd circa 1999

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I'm heartbroken to share that my friend of 30 yrs, Arthur Phillip Delchi, @delchi.bsky.social, DJ Delchi, has left us. A founding force behind DEF CON’s Hackers with Disabilities, a member of cDc Ninja Strike Force, a L0pht regular who DJed our wildest parties (two of those moments captured below)

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Well doesn’t this @axios cybersecurity news item just sum up the state of consumer internet privacy

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Stellar weekend in Newport, RI. My daughter got married to a wonderful man! My son even played in the band. So happy and grateful for family!

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Are you ready for the 2036 Epochalypse and the 2038 Time Rollover? This makes Y2K seem easy.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

30 years ago today, I saw Hackers in theaters with my crew @l0pht.bsky.social Later, I met my wife @debdebdeb.bsky.social on IRC. Then I co-founded a cybersecurity company @veracode.bsky.social with fellow L0pht hacker @dildog.l0pht.com What a journey! Anyone else feeling old? Post your story.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On this Sept 11, we remember. My wife served at Ground Zero as a first responder. Yesterday she rang the radiation bell, a milestone on her road to beating breast cancer. Grief + gratitude, service + strength. Proud of her. #NeverForget #FirstResponder #BreastCancer

Smiling as she rings the radiation bell at the treatment center—celebrating an end-of-radiation milestone on Sept 10

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Watching Hackers on Laserdisc!

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Over the last 2 yrs LLMs have vastly improved their ability to write syntactically correct code, but they haven’t improved in ability to write code without vulnerabilities which is steady at 45% coding tasks with vulns.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Black Hat USA keynote list has dropped. Impressive!

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The EU Product Liability Directive will take effect Dec 2026. Software, firmware, applications, AI systems, and will now be subject to the same strict liability regime as traditional physical goods. Cybersecurity vulnerabilities will be considered product defects. www.lexology.com/library/deta...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Trump issues new Cybersecurity EO

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Some more shots of this amazing vehicle

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hyde Hack to the Future Hackathon going on at Veracode has had some incredible moments. doc’s car paid us a visit and since I’m Weldy McPond I decided to wear my orange down vest to get into my role.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Last time I was in a play, I was Falstaff in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" (yeah, that’s not a typo. it was 5th grade). Now I’m back as Weldy McPond in @veracode.bsky.social's “Hack to the Future.” From Shakespeare to cyber-chaos—what could go wrong?

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The @l0pht.bsky.social got a Battlezone machine in 1995 when it was 15 years old. It was the first FPS arcade game! Now it's pushing 45 and needs repair. It got new resistors and a cleaning. Still work to be done however as it gets to the gameplay screen and no tanks show up including yours!

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Why didn’t I think of that!

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Example of the result of social engineering found on X

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Big news! What started as a bold vision in 2020 has officially been patented: “Generative AI Driven Software Fixing”! 💡🛠️ Shoutout to the brilliant minds behind it — Roman Rudenki and Anna Bacher — for pioneering AI-powered auto-remediation of vulnerable code. 👏 patents.google.com/patent/US122...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If everything’s a computer, it would be nice to know how long that computer will be updated. www.wired.com/story/compan...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Its taking longer for teams to fix security flaws found during testing.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

There is some bad news, however. It takes longer than a year to fix some critical issues in half of organizations. 70% of this type of risk is coming from 3rd party code in the form of OSS libraries/packages. Is it getting more complex to update libraries to new versions?

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The 2025 @veracode.bsky.social SoSS report is out today and there is good news for application security! We see a steady improvement in apps that have no vulnerabilities in the @owasp.org Top 10. Big uptick in last 5 years. Is regulation working? Report: veracode.com/resources/an...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Excited to see Deception & Operations Planning Frameworks by Russell Handorf presentation @shmoocon shmoocon.org/speakers/

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I wonder if this is a #Shmoocon inspired feature on my hotel room door handle. I’ve never seen it before

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

U.S. Cyber Trust Mark is coming to products this year. I wish I could put it on my telephone.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Is this potential ban because the products have more security vulns than average or the update process is poor or is there a fear of backdoors? Make the reasons clear and hold all vendors to the standard.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BreachRX analyzed the SEC public 8-K filings disclosing cyber incidents. They found a startling lack of transparency which goes against the whole point of requiring public filings. How can investors & people doing business with you have any confidence if this is what they get?

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Are we going to get a Rolling Stone cover treatment of Luigi Magione?

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