I asked OpenAI GPT-4o where CrowdStrike is headquartered this afternoon. It told me, with complete confidence and no hedging: "CrowdStrike was founded by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston in 2011. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California." CrowdStrike officially designated Austin, Texas as its principal executive office in 2022. That is public information. It is in their annual report. It is on their own investor relations page. A Google search for "cro

Yesterday the IRGC named 18 American companies as military targets. Today we went hunting on GitHub for the exploit code that's already being staged against them. We found webshells disguised as security research. Full exploitation toolkits published the day before CISA deadlines. Java GUI "exploit tools" committed with debug logs. And nobody paying attention. This is the wasteland. The space between a CVE disclosure and a patch deployment where attackers stage their tools in