In 2019, we created (and wrote about) our Skyball pyramid – a cute way to stack the super-bouncy balls we give away at conferences. This year we took it up a notch (thanks to Andrew bringing out SCR2!) Like the previous version, we can now make arbitrarily sized pyramids (which also allows us to shrink the base as we start to run out of balls). More importantly though.. Moar Birds! It’s tiny, but it’s one of those things we love. …
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If you’ve gotten a gift from us in the past few years, it would have shown up in a bag like this one: Here’s the story behind that bag… Carrying Our Values With Us One of our core Thinkst values is to “do well by doing good” (we actually have 4 of them). We donate to Open Source projects we use. We offer no-strings-attached bursaries to South African tertiary students. We support local charities who protect, uplift, and believe in …
You can do complex things with Canaries but you don’t need to. Even though Canaries will happily pose as SCADA equipment or Mainframes, a Windows personality, with a well-named fileshare, has caught attackers all over the world. Can it be that easy? Won’t really good attackers be suspicious? The answer is slightly counter-intuitive: Attackers who land on your network have to situate themselves. They have to poke around. But won’t they ignore a server that looks suspiciously unguarded? Almost never. …
To see a World in a Grain of Sand Rice – William Blake mh If you are on TikTok (or a fan of talk shows) at the moment then, no doubt, your feed has included coloured rice being tossed in the air in the form of song lyrics, beloved cartoon characters, and even famous faces. @mr.riceguy Whilst coloured rice is not a new thing (for most preschool teachers, it is a cheap and effective way to keep kids entertained), a bunch of …
We like solving problems. Sometimes, we make up new ones so we can solve them. Skyball Pyramids are one such case! Last year we discovered these amazing Skyballs and decided to make them a regular feature at our conference booths. Canary Skyballs They have just the right amount of heft and weight to make them genuinely fun to play with. Of course, this leaves us with the devilish problem of how to display them… At Infosec Europe 2018, some of …