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Let me take you on a journey. This one's got ancient warrior queens, Swedish research money, ground-penetrating radar, and a 5,000-year-old secret that somebody

I started this whole thing because I was tired of getting scraped. Built a honeypot, caught some bots, published some IOCs. Standard indie security researcher s

The World's Best Security Solution for Fishermen (And Bad News for Rats)

What Fish and Chips in Killybegs Taught Me About Threat Intelligence

Consensual Reconnaissance: The Security Industry's Double Standard

Data vs Intelligence: Why Most Threat Feeds Are Junk

Anti-Fragile Architecture: 10 Patterns That Survive Chaos

The Riddle of Steel: What Conan Teaches Us About Threat Intelligence

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--- title: "8 Days, 20,000 Indicators: Microsoft and AT&T Are Watching" slug: 8-days-20k-indicators-microsoft-att-watching date: 2025-12-05 author: Patrick Dugg

--- title: "The Sleeper Has Awoken: How Our Honeypot Proved Threat Actors Read Our Blog" slug: sleeper-has-awoken-honeypot-correlation-threat-actors date: 2025-

--- title: "The Sleeper Has Awoken: How Our Honeypot Proved Threat Actors Read Our Blog" slug: sleeper-has-awoken-honeypot-correlation-threat-actors date: 2025-

--- title: "We Hung a Honeypot at churchofdockermoreskin.com - 42 Countries Came Knocking" slug: church-honeypot-42-countries-sweden-anomaly date: 2025-12-04 au

--- title: "We Hung a Honeypot at churchofdockermoreskin.com - 42 Countries Came Knocking" slug: church-honeypot-42-countries-sweden-anomaly date: 2025-12-04 au

--- title: "CVSS 10.0 in 24 Hours: How We Respond to World-Breaking Zero Days" slug: cvss-10-react-zero-day-24-hour-response date: 2025-12-04 author: Patrick Du

--- title: "Shai-Hulud V2: Anatomy of a Self-Propagating npm Worm" slug: shai-hulud-v2-npm-supply-chain-worm date: 2025-12-04 author: Patrick Duggan tags: [supp

When we started the day, our OTX feed sat at 8,227 indicators across 84 pulses. The goal was simple: hit 10K.

--- title: "Tax the Rat Farms: Pattern 43 and the Vetinari Approach to Threat Intelligence" date: 2025-12-03 author: Patrick Duggan tags: [threat-intelligence,

--- title: "Tax the Rat Farms: Pattern 43 and the Vetinari Approach to Threat Intelligence" date: 2025-12-03 author: Patrick Duggan tags: [threat-intelligence,

--- title: "Pattern 38 Impact: How We Protected 2 Million Open Source Users" slug: pattern-38-impact-2-million-users-protected date: 2025-12-03 author: Patrick