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Will Prat

@wprat

Grizzled IT Professional

Joined January 2009
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A message from the comptroller!!! File! File! File!! This is not a drill!!! #PACTACT ⁦@DeptVetAffairs⁩ ⁦@WhiteHouse⁩
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Proud to join my Council colleagues in proclaiming National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We are united in our commitment to creating safer communities for all. Thank you to our City Attorney’s Office and all the community leaders and groups who work everyday to #EndGunViolence
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You Are All Welcome Here @LOTRonPrime @DonMarshall72 #RingsOfPower donmarshall72sstore.com/list…
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My telescope is up and running. Here we go! Lots of new images on the way just in time for the best imaging season of the year.
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"We’re not going to get rid of airplanes because there’s crashes; we’re going to minimize crashes. We’re not going to get rid of #machinelearning; we just have to learn how to make it safer." -Noah Giansiracusa getrevue.co/profile/themarku…
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If you're a #technicalcontentwriter, you're in good company. Here's a 5-minute read about how Robert Pirsig wrote "Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." (Spoiler: He too was a technical writer.) lithub.com/robert-m-pirsig-o…
Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

On May 20, 1974, soon after the initial publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig addressed students at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The following tra…

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Drop by your company’s help desk or customer service group. If you can’t get content ideas from them, then you’re really not trying. ventajamarketing.com/writing… #contentmarketing
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@instagram may I have some support please? My main account: @ TOSTY87 has been hacked and they have been attempting to fraud people of money. My alt account: @ tosty87_photos is secure. <3
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Your #contentmarketing writers work in other industries besides yours. You may find valuable overlap (read: connections) to those industries in your writer's portfolio. ventajamarketing.com/writing… #marketing #writerslift
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"It's a solid case study," you say. "Too bad we can't use it." #Casestudies and #customersuccess stories lend you credibility. But when you can't drop names, try anonymous case studies. ventajamarketing.com/writing…
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Have you been with your organization long enough to remember when things were a mess, and what everybody had to go through to make things run smoothly? Then you're ideally suited to work on the Transformation #WhitePaper. ventajamarketing.com/writing… #contentmarketing
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👇This is why I tell clients to ignore CVSS and focus on exploitation. For example, CVE-2017-11882 is a 7.8 (CVSSv3.1). It should be prioritized for remediation ahead of many thousands of vulns with higher CVSS scores that have never been exploited.
Rick Holland (@rickhholland) profile pictureRick Holland@rickhholland28 Jul 2021
Take note and prioritize in your vuln Mgt programs. New from @CISAgov Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts…
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Ah damn this hits so hard! – at Miamisburg, OH
Florian Roth ⚡️ (@cyb3rops) profile pictureFlorian Roth ⚡️
@cyb3rops21 Jul 2021
#SeriousSAM remediation
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@Microsoft14 Jul 2021
If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy.
Photo of the redesigned Clippy emoji against a light blue background.

ALT Photo of the redesigned Clippy emoji against a light blue background.

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This is great for all of the defenders.
Jason Lang (@curi0usJack) profile pictureJason Lang
@curi0usJack1 Jul 2021
PrintNightmare POC & Detection: github.com/cube0x0/CVE-2021-… github.com/LaresLLC/CVE-2021… Within roughly a day of each other (based on commits), as it should be.
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This is truly bonkers. This is the kind of thing you'd see on April fool's day and laugh it off and sadly we are way past that. – at Miamisburg, OH
x0rz (@x0rz) profile picturex0rz@x0rz3 Jun 2021
What the hell.
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#Bloggers and #contentmarketers often learn from and post about their own mistakes. But what about customer mistakes? Should you post about them? ventajamarketing.com/writing… #digitalmarketing
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Sigh. A heads up for all my fellow Homebrew users. – at Miamisburg, OH
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@TheHackersNews24 Apr 2021
A critical #vulnerability in Homebrew Package Manager for #macOS and #Linux could have allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code on users' machines remotely. Details: thehackernews.com/2021/04/cr… #infosec #cybersecurity
Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux

A critical vulnerability in the Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux could have allowed hackers to remotely execute arbitrary code.

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Yikes! I've been waiting for something like this to come out for awhile figuring it was just a matter of time.
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@TheHackersNews16 Apr 2021
Airstrike Attack (CVE-2021-28316) — BitLocker full disk encryption bypass and Privilege Escalation on domain joined Windows workstations. shenaniganslabs.io/2021/04/1…
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Friend and former business partner John Bromhead has often maintained that the purpose of marketing is to start a conversation. That makes sense, especially when you’re trying to explain the difference between marketing and sales. ventajamarketing.com/writing… #contentmarketing
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