Full-Stack Software Engineer | Dev at @FCPEuro | Founder of @nditcommunity | Volunteer at @codethedream | Alum of @turingschool | 👩‍💻

Denver, CO
Joined March 2010
Hayley in the Stack retweeted
Every server should have a little guestbook.txt at the root that the bots can sign
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
I eagerly await the critical HTML vulnerability.
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
the guy who banned use of php at amazon way back in the day is probably feeling pretty smug right now
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
Replying to @_Freakyclown_
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
If you post your full private CA cert key, Twitter will censor it. * See?
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
completely insane OpenAI agents communicated via cache timing differences, without any shared files or network connection
This is what I want to see. Swarms used for defense. (because swarms will be used for offense too)
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
2027 will be the year in history when the most security vulnerabilities are fixed.
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
On the bright side - the market is INSANE right now for security engineers
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
This is all just a very aggressive Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
BREAKING: OpenAI says it found a critical flaw in Brotli, a widely used compression library built into software like Node.js, Bun and Envoy. The bug could let an attacker take over a system just by sending it malicious compressed data, with no login needed. That works both ways: a hacker could hijack an unpatched server, or a malicious server could hijack an unpatched user’s device.
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
I think we've discovered another critical vulnerability: CVE-2026-BURNOUT: AppSec Professional Exhaustion Severity: Critical (CVSS 10.0) Description: A vulnerability affecting security professionals exposed to a continuous stream of critical RCEs, zero-days, emergency patches, and Friday afternoon disclosures. Impact: Sleep deprivation, excessive caffeine consumption, and an inability to enjoy weekends. Attack vector: Reading security advisories. Affected versions: All AppSec professionals, regardless of experience. Mitigation: No known patch. Air-gapping may delay the inevitable. Total system collapse remains a possibility. 🔥
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
‼️ BREAKING: Two critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Angular. Google told all four apps using it to temporarily take the app down until a patch is available.
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
Sama says "I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs." If accurate, this means 2 things: 1) The internet as we know it is over. 2) We very, very obviously need to stop AI advancement **before** the same becomes true of bio.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
Oh come on Cloudflare
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
a lot of old software was protected by “exploiting this would be an unreasonable amount of work” we have invented a machine that does unreasonable amounts of work anyway how’s the patch backlog
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
‼️ BREAKING ‼️ PHP warns of another UNPATCHED REC vulnerability just 2 days after releasing emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws. New "CVE-2026-115560" affects only unusual session configurations. PHP has issued urgent mitigation guidance. Full details → thehackernews.com/2026/10/ur…
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
BREAKING: github is currently experiencing unplanned uptime
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Hayley in the Stack retweeted
internet explorer was an awesome name for a web browser
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