Patrick Laverty

Rapid 7
Security Consultant

Patrick created and co-organizes the Layer 8 Conference with Lea Snyder. This year will be the 3rd annual conference that solely focuses on social engineering and OSINT topics.

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Why Did the Name Change?

People have all been wondering, “What happened to pauldotcom? Why’d he change the name to Paul’s Security Weekly?” Well, we’ll explain it. You can either read below or hear the story straight from Paul in the video above. Here’s the story: Paul bought the pauldotcom.com domain in 2003, and started using it in 2005, when […]

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Disabling Java, Fuzzing an X-Ray Machine and Watching Cat Videos

In this week’s Drunken Security News, the stories of the week that the Security Weekly crew were talking about, Paul talked about the experience following the advice of security experts around the world, including the Department of Homeland Security, and disabled Java in all of his browsers. You may remember back a week or so […]