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I’ll try to make a few posts from my cruise this week but no guarantee. Happy easter all!

OpenAI just launched two new models of ChatGPT, o3 and o4-mini. I played with giving o3 images and asking it “where exactly was this image taken”. Within a minute or so it would have an answer and while I’m sure I’ll find some misses, it hasn’t missed for me yet. One of my tests was giving it a picture of

Did a poster signing today at the SANS Cyber Defense booth and am now at dinner with an amazing group of people.

I’ll be giving a third talk at GISEC now discussing cutting edge techniques using AI for audio analysis.

I’ve agreed to give a second talk at the GISEC conference in Dubai next month. Here is the outline: Title: 24/7 Threat Tracking on Telegram: How to Automate Infostealer Log Monitoring With Python Synopsis: In this fast-paced session, Matt Edmondson (author of SANS OSINT courses SEC497 and SEC587) takes you behind the scenes of his automated threat-hunting setup on Telegram—one

I was doing a demonstration for a tal,k and I needed to demonstrate deep research, so I picked a topic that I had just written a blog post about on Methods to discover redacted information from a pdf and since deep research put in the work and came up with a lot of analysis citations et cetera on the topic

I always have a great time teaching for SANS, but the big conferences like Orlando and Las Vegas always hit harder with bigger crowds, more activities etc. Looking forward to a great week!

I had a student reach out and ask about ways to “unredact” information from a PDF. They work for an organization that releases a lot of redacted material and they wanted to ensure they weren’t accidentally leaking out sensitive information. When you need to redact documents, it’s important to verify the sensitive information is actually gone, not just visually hidden.

It was a huge honor to speak at the 2025 Supply Chain Technical Exchange Symposium yesterday. Got to see a few old friends and make some new ones today! Having lived in the area for five years, it’s always nice to get back at catch up.

I took a day to figure out exactly what I wanted to talk about at the GISEC Conference next month in Dubai and came up with the following: Necessity Breeds Innovation: OSINT Solutions When Budgets Fail This talk explores how security professionals can implement powerful Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) monitoring strategies with minimal to no budget. Drawing from real-world experience

I’ve never been a massive fan of flying, but it’s funny how surviving an 18-hour flight to Singapore makes a 4-hour cross-country flight seem like no big deal 🙂

Open source intelligence (OSINT) often requires digging into corners of the web that aren’t publicly visible. Enter ArchiveBox, a self-hosted web archiving tool that lets you save web pages locally in various formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, etc.) (Key Features — ArchiveBox 0.8.6rc3 documentation) (Key Features — ArchiveBox 0.8.6rc3 documentation). ArchiveBox is like your personal Wayback Machine, only smarter: it can

I was recently discussing the replica watch ecosystem with a friend and found it a fascinating topic worthy of an AI-assisted irrelevent weekend blog post! Introduction Think fake Rolexes are just shady street curios? Think again. There is a semi-underground but thriving subculture devoted to high-quality replica watches. Online communities hundreds of thousands strong obsess over the latest “super clone”

All right, once again, I know this isn’t a travel blog, but it’s a irelevant weekend blog post, and it’s my blog so I’m kind of allowed to do whatever I want. It’s kind of funny – I honestly (as a lot of my friends know) don’t really care for flying too much, yet I find myself doing a lot

I am super excited to announce that next month I will be speaking at the GISEC Global conference in Dubai! It is the largest security conference in the Middle East and Africa, and it will be the first time I’ve ever had a chance to visit Dubai, so I am excited on multiple fronts. I have already started watching YouTube