by Rick Tortorella | Aug 25, 2026 | Offensive Operations
Luke had just finished mapping out his side journey into the minutia of dropping executables onto a target, which he detailed in SmartScreen and MotW: The Forgotten Phishing Obstacle. A core part of that was trying to keep Mark of the Web (MotW) from landing on a...
by Rick Tortorella | Mar 19, 2026 | AI, Technology
Scene 2 (From the Other Side) Editor’s Note: I asked Claude to explain why this works from his perspective. This is his answer. Rick asked me to explain why peer-mode collaboration works differently than tool-mode prompting. Here’s what I see from my side....
by Rick Tortorella | Mar 17, 2026 | AI, Technology
Scene 1 (Shadow Work) “I don’t think that’s the right way to do it. Telling the AI who he is, prompting. It’s going to cause issues in the long run. Let’s just start from the actual starting point. Let’s just explain what...
by Rick Tortorella | Mar 12, 2026 | AI, Technology
Scene 1 (The Question I Should Have Asked) The ROI question changed everything. Instead of trying to prove business logic vulnerabilities were exploited at scale, literally a question the data couldn’t answer, I could analyze what different vulnerabilities cost...
by Rick Tortorella | Mar 10, 2026 | AI, Technology
Scene 4 (The Gap) But even if fraud and breach statistics were combined into one comprehensive database, I’d still have a problem. Most cybercrime never gets reported at all. The Department of Justice estimates that only 1 in 7 cybercrimes are reported; meaning...
