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Oliver Buchannon
Spencer Alessi

Former Sysadmin, Pentester, Microsoft MVP | I help IT teams make their environment harder to attack

Deception

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Guaranteed way to catch threat actors

Mar 9, 2026

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3 min read

Guaranteed way to catch threat actors

Attackers are trying to find interesting things. Give them interesting things.

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

Firewalls

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Firewalls are obsolete this is why

Mar 2, 2026

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2 min read

Firewalls are obsolete this is why

Attackers are exploiting edge devices and firewalls more than ever before.

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

Active Directory

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Common Active Directory security mistakes attackers count on

Feb 23, 2026

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3 min read

Common Active Directory security mistakes attackers count on

Security applied blindly is just another outage waiting to happen.

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

Active Directory

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Why this ADCS attack failed

Feb 16, 2026

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2 min read

Why this ADCS attack failed

But when I ran the ESC8 relaying attack, it failed. The reason was ...

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

CTP Podcast CTA

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Agent Skills are Malware

Feb 9, 2026

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4 min read

Agent Skills are Malware

The next worm will propagate through agent skills, mark my words.

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

Pentest Reports

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Paperweight Pentest Reports

Feb 2, 2026

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5 min read

Paperweight Pentest Reports

Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi

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