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Introducing Tanuki – The Autonomous AI Penetration Testing Ninja

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Time to forget clunky scanners and tedious manual assessments. Enter Tanuki, the revolutionary AI-powered penetration testing robot that infiltrates your defenses like a phantom. Imagine a tireless cyber-samurai, honed by 70,000 hours of real-world experience, wielding the world’s largest arsenal of leaked credentials – that’s Tanuki. Think beyond vulnerability scanners: Tanuki isn’t your average vulnerability scanner. It’s a self-learning, autonomous penetration testing platform that mimics the cunning and adaptability of real attackers. Forget static scans; Tanuki weasels its way through your network, chaining vulnerabilities like a grandmaster chess player, exploiting zero-days before they even emerge. Unleash the Kraken of Leaked … Continue reading Introducing Tanuki – The Autonomous AI Penetration Testing Ninja

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Getting In The Groove

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As many of you know, I left Deloitte late last month and have moved onto a position within IT Audit at SMBC Nikko Securities. This new position puts me in the thick of a Japanese working environment, which is challenging on many levels – language being the least of which. I look forward to this career change since it pulls out of the rat race that Big Four job have turned into. Long gone are the days where Big Four managers could get regular work and charge exorbitant rates. The competition is stiff and the rates are falling through the … Continue reading Getting In The Groove

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Back To Normal

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Or, as normal as a foreigner living in a Japanese nuclear leakage zone can be. Packed my brief case, put on a necktie, and headed into Tokyo this morning. Was interesting with dark train cars, no heating on the trains, darker train stations, and all the escalators shut down. It’s a different Japan and will be different well into summer of this year. Our house is zoned outside of the regular power outages, so I can keep this new home server humming and continue to develop, script, and otherwise hack unencumbered. Well, almost unencumbered. This little server screams – it … Continue reading Back To Normal

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Sensation Sells – CNN Is A Cauldron Of Liars

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Throughout my life, the wiser individuals have pointed out propaganda, sensationalism, and how one should only believe a part of the news that’s broadcast. This experience has been a big lesson and has made those advisories so clear; especially as it applies to CNN and Wolf Blitzer. I am in Japan and have lived in Japan for a third of my life at this point. I read, write, and speak the language fluently at a near-native level. I am not confused by the events here… unlike the stupid American reporters that keep claiming ‘mixed signals’ or ‘unclear messages’ or ‘changing … Continue reading Sensation Sells – CNN Is A Cauldron Of Liars

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All Shook Up In Japan

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Just as I start to write this blog entry the NHK station that I incessantly stay tuned into reports an upcoming earthquake warning… yet again. Since Friday March 11, there have been over 300 after-shocks only about 40 of which I can remember actually feeling or experiencing. Also, if the only news you have is from Wolf Blitzer on CNN, then you are drastically misled about the current situation.Since I was small child I have experienced four major natural disasters – the first was typhoon Pamela when I was 11 years old growing up on Guam. Then the 1989 San … Continue reading All Shook Up In Japan

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Let The Tablet Wars Begin

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This morning I had the great opportunity to sneak-peak the Samsung Galaxy tablet. Not yet released in Japan, so this was a ‘special’ occasion made available to preview Samsung’s morsel of toy. I have to say, ‘it is nice’. The accelerometer, the touch screen, the screen is all really nice. Okay, okay, you know there is a big BUT coming….Here is a nice picture and article from Reuters.I do not know how to describe what I am about to write, so I’ll be careful. What I notice with the my wife’s Android phone, I also see in the Galaxy tablet … Continue reading Let The Tablet Wars Begin

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Bullet Trains and Small Bladders

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Everybody in this country wants a window seat on the bullet train, but nobody can hold their bladder long enough for a two hour ride to Osaka. So, people like myself who actually like the ‘edge’ leg room and ease of mobility offered by the aisle position, find themselves levitating toward the window seats. When Japanese try to get out of their window seat, some where in their mind they think they can get get by without waiting for you to stand to get out of their way. One Japanese guy found himself sitting back down to wait for me … Continue reading Bullet Trains and Small Bladders

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New WorkPapers Release Coming

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Hi All! It’s been a while, but since then have been hard at work programming on a couple of projects with a couple of languages. Over the past couple weeks, since mentioning WorkPapers in a blog posting, several users have replied via email calling, requesting, and some demanding a new release. Well, it’ll be out in a few weeks. This next release will enhance the previous version synchronize, file exchange, and export – with a few long-awaited reporting upgrades. A subsequent release will include WorkPapers Web Edition with client software synchronization and/or pure filthy rich online experience. This mix of … Continue reading New WorkPapers Release Coming

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The Next Wave – Preventive Security and Statisticians

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Over the past couple weeks I have concluded that enough (bad) breath has been spent ranting about how system and security auditors really are missing the mark. However, one cannot reasonably just point a finger in one direction – it takes two to tango, so it is now time to point out what CIOs and administrators of secure environments should start to consider in order to prevent incidents. And along the way add a rant or two about how the average CIO (too) is an administrative paper-pushing, policy guru that does not really have real systems administration experience – most … Continue reading The Next Wave – Preventive Security and Statisticians

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Anti-Piracy – First Internet Cafe Arrest In Japan

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This Japanese news article reports the first “internet cafe” arrest in Japan since the anti-piracy download law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2010. However, I am fairly certain that this is the first such arrest altogether – somebody please comment if I am wrong. Toward the end of last year and the first days of the new year, many blogs and statistic sites were reporting on the number of shares on peer-to-peer software available on the internet. Remarkably, most of the numbers did not change a bit. I find this unusual since Japanese go to great lengths to stay … Continue reading Anti-Piracy – First Internet Cafe Arrest In Japan