Interests: education as talent development, the fate of artists in a log-normal world. Former work: @FrankHecker. Elsewhere: @frankhecker.com on the azure site.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Joined December 2006
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Yesterday I celebrated my one-year anniversary on Math Academy. Five courses completed, another almost complete, 19519 XP thus far. 1/2
I have been working with DNS SPF, DMARC, and DKIM records recently, and will note that it’s very important to get these right in order to prevent others impersonating your email. Here’s an example:
US state and local government DNS records whitelist expired, mistyped and repurposed domains. Here's the risk: brnw.ch/21x6VDI, via SH Consulting
My personal experience: a math/physics dual major from a small liberal arts college is a good combination. Not the most prestigious thing I could have done (could have tried for MIT) but I got a well-rounded education that’s stood me well in life and work.
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Starlink users getting 🎯 by zero-click malware campaign using banner ads to serve the payloads
UPDATE: Israeli company we caught delivering zero-click infections is #1 bidder on Starlink ads in 105 countries.
Data from @trendai_RSRCH suggests worldwide surveillance op targeting @Starlink users. 1/
By @razhael
reuters.com/business/media-t…
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Our team at @DecryptAds is out today with our first report, which we’ve been working on for months. The research is focused on AI slop recipe and cooking websites, the fake chefs who supposedly run them, and the Russian and Chinese ad tech companies integrated into the sites..🧵
![Likely AI generated image of a family sitting at a dinner table from addcakes[.]com social media profile of author/owner “Elena” who appears to be actor Emily Blunt.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HVFKvYRaEAA06PJ.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Likely AI generated image of a family sitting at a dinner table from addcakes[.]com social media profile of author/owner “Elena” who appears to be actor Emily Blunt.
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Shipbuilding is coming back to the Baltimore region. As Anduril’s project moves forward at Sparrows Point, my focus is simple: good-paying jobs and a real path for local residents to get hired.
Read the official announcement: ow.ly/G7OP50ZWxbm
Well, well, well. It's gratifying to see my former employer, @Infoblox, at #31 on the Fortune Future 120 list, "Companies ranked by vitality, or long-term growth potential", ahead of Anthropic, Cloudflare, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, and others that attract more attention. 1/
Pretty good for a 25-year-old company, especially given that @Infoblox specializes in Internet plumbing (DNS, DHCP, & IP address management) that can seem as boring as real-life plumbing. But DNS in particular can be key to detecting security threats before they threaten you. 2/
If you're a developer, sales engineer, in software marketing or sales, I recommend you check out @Infoblox. It's a mature company run by adults, with great culture and lots of opportunities. Currently 80+ open positions worldwide: infoblox.com/company/careers… 3/3
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We’re proud to share that Infoblox has been named to @FortuneMagazine's 2026 Future 120 list of companies best positioned for long-term growth.
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The Fabric of Civilization is on sale for $2.99 on Kindle (useful for search even if you have hard copy--I bought it and paid full price!). No idea how long the sale lasts. Link follows.
This is a big deal for security firms that manage security for lots of other firms: Now they can take advantage of @Infoblox's DNS-based security technology and services to protect all their customers under a unified policy and security operations framework.
Enhanced multi-tenancy for Infoblox Threat Defense™ extends the MSSP program we announced earlier this year, with general availability on October 15.
Read the blog and talk to your Infoblox partner team to learn more: brnw.ch/21x6cwL
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we’re Baiheverse, a small team who fell hard for Chinese #GL in English.
everything here is officially licensed, and what you spend goes back to the people who made it.
more about us: baiheverse.com/en/about?utm_…
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200+ cybersecurity leaders. One blog. For @vmblog, Infoblox CISO Henrik Smith joined this snapshot of where the industry’s collective head is at right now: brnw.ch/21x684A
In a time when corporate media outlets are shutting down left & right, especially for niche genres, it's worth noting that the indie anime review site Anime Feminist (original slogan: "Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens") published its first article 10 years ago today.
Anime Feminist, like other indie anime/manga news/review/analysis sites, e.g., Yatta-Tachi (11 years old), Anime Herald (16 years), and Okazu (24 years), depends on readers for funding. If you like this kind of media journalism you can support it here: ko-fi.com/animefeminist
Remembering #Cohost: Today is the 2-year anniversary of the day that the most fun site I've ever written for stopped allowing people to post to it. In remembrance of it, for the next few days I'll be posting some of my favorite bits of writing I did on the site. 1/
ALT A plushie of Eggbug, the mascot of the social media site Cohost, in front of a bookshelf of poetry books. Eggbug is a bug shaped like an egg, purple with silver wings, six short black legs, two round black eyes, and an ambiguous smile on its face.
Today's ex-#Cohost post came about when I wondered why people were so obsessed with fictional magic and magicians in recent decades, and relatively uninterested in the real magic that real people have created over the past 200 years. frankhecker.com/2022/11/03/r…
ALT Left: In an illustration from the manga Witch Hat Atelier, the young witch Coco explains how to create a magic spell by drawing a diagram. Right: A Feynman diagram showing a neutron (composed of one up quark and two down quarks) decaying into a proton (composed of two up quarks and one down quark) and a weak boson, which then in turn decays into an electron and an electron antineutrino.