My Bookmarks & Notes for July 2026

Microsoft Copilot on GovCloud got a large feature boost. Waiting on FedRAMP approval for Anthropic to enable Cowork. Copilot Calendar integration still 100% broken for Gov.

ChatGPT vibecoding the Codex app directly to production is a bold strategy; let’s see how it works out for them…

The Complete Guide to the week before Def Con

This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in joining the cyber security profession. People who might not be familiar with all the conferences that take place before Def Con or are looking to use these combined events to “dip their toes” into the many different areas of the profession.

My Bookmarks & Notes for June 2026

Elevated password spray activity across tenants. New actor spamming honeypots port 8080, same actor from Iran using proxies in Denver and Vegas to spam Azure CLI authentication endpoints.

Estimated that my API costs for things like Shodan, Censys, etc. have gone up 20% since the start of the year. I currently pay for 12 services. Time to start the annual cleanup

Phase 2 of CMMC delayed. Again.

Is this how Vladimir Putin feels? Expected a 3-day operation, but 5 years later you keep getting bombed?

CMMC Stage 2 has been effectively canceled until further notice, and CMMC AB is on the verge of irrelevance, if not complete collapse.

Fireside chats and refinery bombings will continue until morale improves…

Setting up a tiny honeypot on a tiny Oracle Always Free VM

What better way to spend a lovely Saturday afternoon than building a honeypot.