Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues

I recently had the opportunity to speak to DEF CON 864 about the multiple layers of security automation within Gitlab, the open source tools that drive them and how the findings are managed and resolved.

The Carolina Code Conference is a welcoming and community-driven “polyglot” conference that’s set to take place in beautiful downtown Greenville, SC on Saturday August 19th, 2023 in the Greenville ONE building. This conference, which returns for the first time since 2019, invites coders of all experience levels to attend, plug into the...

It might sound strange to hear that Microsoft, a company who goes to great lengths to protect computers and networks, is one of the biggest contributors to phishing and fraud on the planet. It's true unfortunately. They aren't actually committing the acts themselves of course, but they are enabling the problem by withdrawing support for...

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Darknet Diaries podcast and it’s compelled me to finally share the entire story of the most intense year of my 20 year professional career. I was the sole developer hired by a company going through a circus-like ownership transition while criminals actively worked to defraud the 300,000 users...

Continuing our series from 2012 where I accidentally ended up combating phishing and fraud for a year, we move onto the spam issue. Everything that happened that year was an exercise in triage. Problems were everywhere on the system and in the marketplace. The site I was working on was the leader in a niche space but it wasn't just the phish who...