Dispatch Debrief: July 2025
Consider this the calm before the Hacker Summer Camp storm.
July was a little lighter (turns out thrunting takes priority over typing). But don’t worry — we still served up enough chaos, tips, and hot takes to keep your dashboards spicy.
Ask-a-Thrunter: June 2025 Recap
In the June 2025 Ask-a-Thrunter episode, the crew discusses favorite log sources, revamps HEARTH, and answers subscriber questions with chaos, practical tips, and sass - don't miss out!
By Lauren Proehl
If You Like It Then You Should've Put a timechart on It
Unleash the power of timechart in your Splunk searches to uncover security trends and detect threats with ease - stop flying blind and start seeing the invisible with this powerful command!
By Sydney Marrone
Make It Hurt (a Little): Why Showing Real Impact in Pentest Findings Matters
Stop relying on basic alert boxes to prove your findings and start demonstrating real impact, like using BeEF hooks to show potential exploits in action - make your findings memorable and urgent for developers.
By John Grageda
Threat hunting is outdated, it's time to upgrade with agentic AI systems that think with analysts, scale, and don't get tired, because attackers are already automating everything - are you in?
By Sydney Marrone
The DEF CON 33 Thrunting Hot List
Get ready for DEF CON 33 because the speaker lineup is so good that it's making the last week of work unbearable for all the thrunters out there - with a perfect blend of frameworks, workshops, and adversary analysis that will have every threat hunter, detection engineer, and security researcher marking their calendars, these talks and workshops are not to be missed.
By Lauren Proehl
Stay tuned for more thrunting wisdom next month.
For those of you attending hacker summer camp: Be safe and have fun!
