Massive Hack Hits Microsoft SharePoint Servers | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 23, 2025

Stargate DC one, healthcare Security AWS AI Agents, Intel's Linux. Future is unclear. MS Eeu deals seems to be unpopular.

There's an ultra tomahawk out there, and we're gonna share a little too much about SharePoint in this episode of the Tech Field Day rundown. Hello everyone. Welcome to the Tech Field Day rundown for July 23rd, 2025.

It's hot out there. It's summertime. Well, at least it is north of the equator, and that means you probably want some ice cream, perhaps a, a nice, uh, fudge sickle or perhaps a nutty buddy.

I don't care. Pick one or the other. Pick 'em both because it's National Ice Cream Day.

And, uh, maybe you should get some for your parents too, because it's National Parents' Day, but I don't know that there's a National Parents by Your Parents' Ice Cream Day. That's tomorrow maybe. Uh, what isn't tomorrow is the rundown because that's today and we are enjoying all of the great things that come along with doing the news on the rundown.

And joining me, of course, is my wonderful wintertime co-host Mr. Alistair Cook. Al, how's it going?

Well, it is a beautiful morning here in Tonga in New Zealand, and it is a scorching 40 degrees. Unfortunately, it's 40 degrees in freedom units, not in science units. Uh, and that means that it's not scorching at all.

That makes it a good day to have ice cream because it won't melt all over your hand before you get to eat it. Yeah, well, I gotta give it to the people out there. In fact, I could give them a hand, not a melty ice cream hand for all of this news that we have to cover because we're gonna hit all the fun stuff, AI security vulnerabilities, AI security vulnerabilities, and, uh, and more.

So I hope that you're ready to tune in. Uh, we're actually gonna start off with, uh, one of my favorite projects named after a Richard Dean Anderson Showtime TV show. Uh, that's of course Stargate, the big Oracle and Open AI SoftBank project.

Uh, they're touting a huge expansion of that project. They're gonna be adding four and a half gigawatts of data center capacity in the us. Yeah, that's right.

We did measure the data center capacity in the thing that makes the back to future DeLorean run. Uh, there are some big promises though, but you may recall that we've been talking about Stargate for a while. 'cause well, this project's having a little trouble getting off the ground, uh, a little trouble dialing out as it were.

Uh, recent report says that plans are already starting to be scaled back and the companies are now just hoping to have one small-ish alpha site data center open by the end of the year. And this, they claim that this is going to create thousands of jobs. But, uh, I'd be honest with you if I didn't say that, this project feels a little bit more height than real progress right now.

Al, do you think that we're ever going to have a complete dialing solution? You know, I think, uh, we should plan for that. Uh, but what I think is, is really telling him this is, uh, this was announced in in January and it was announced with, uh, your US president and Sam Altman standing up together and saying how wonderful this was going to be.

Along with, of course, um, Larry Ellison and, uh, the CEO of SoftBank. And I'm always a little cynical when a project is huge and announced in a very political way, um, makes me feel like there might be quite a gap between that and the final reality. Now, the long-term plan still spend ridiculously large amounts of money to build massive data centers for open AI to consume all of the GPUs and all of the power forever reality of delivery.

Well, you've gotta get something running. You've gotta get some tin in the ground, uh, some concrete in the ground, I guess, and turn on top of it. And, uh, you really need to be able to say you've delivered something, kind of takes a long time to build a four and a half gigawatts worth of capacity, and it's gonna be built across multiple locations, and that $500 billion being spent was around the world, not just in the us.

Uh, so yeah, it's, it's interesting to see that they're still talking up what they're gonna build rather than telling us what they have built in that, what is it now? Seven, six months, uh, six months and, uh, and, uh, two days, uh, since the announcement of this deal. Yeah, it's not surprising that it's taking a while to build out.

Um, we do also see other studies around suggesting that there is no way there will be enough GPUs for all of the data centers that have been announced that the actual production of the GPUs and, and the other computer hardware that's supposed to go in these data centers over the next few years, uh, there's just is no way it'll be produced. And that's an interesting piece of study that sits alongside this, right? We announced huge things are gonna happen, and then we don't do huge things.

Now, if you've followed how things work with political announcements and political alignment for large high tech organizations, you're not terribly surprised about this. You may be surprised by a new report from the fortified health security, um, and it's outlining some topped cybersecurity problems in healthcare. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not surprised to find that there is poor risk planning, weak supply chains, outdated systems, missing inventory records, and a lack of training in health.

Um, these issues are connected to and have been ex, uh, have been exposed in major breaches like the 2024 change healthcare attack. Despite the risks, the report shows that some progress has been made in fixing old systems. I wonder how much, uh, planning for incident and improving leadership and identity security.

The findings are based on data from 2023 to mid 2025 across various American healthcare organization. So supposedly the finest healthcare organizations in the world, in your US system. And, uh, yeah, this seems like there might be a lot of old archaic systems still in play in healthcare in the US almost, um, looking after your health Well, right now.

Yeah, for the time being, I guess, uh, you are right. We, we do have the best healthcare system that money can buy that then immediately takes all of the profits and plows them back into shareholder equity, which will turn out to be one of the three great lies of the modern industrial evolution area. Um, but let me tell you why.

One of these things is the hospital's fault, and one of them isn't. Obviously the hospital's fault is that they're not grading their systems because why would you spend money on it when you could give it to people who really don't need it? Um, that's one of the problems of operating a for-profit enterprise like healthcare.

I mean, I, I don't want to cast aspersions, but why is that? Every, most every other country in the world operates healthcare like a, uh, like a, a, a, a basic human right and not a business, uh, that, that's a discussion for a different podcast. Uh, but the, the fact is, is that most hospitals are running on older equipment, at least from an IT perspective.

When we need a new MRI machine, we'll we'll order one of those because we can charge for that. But the wireless network and the the cabling plant and the firewalls, we can't charge the the customers for that. And so those get best effort.

The other thing that I think has kind of been a maybe not a, an explicit thing as of flight is this idea that we don't attack hospitals, right? Think of the Geneva conventions. We don't shoot churches, we don't shoot hospitals.

Uh, we don't bomb red cross trucks. So I think that what happened was is that hospitals just kind of assumed that people were gonna stay from out of there and not hack them and try to steal patient records and, and cause other outage problems. Surprise hackers don't care about your Geneva conventions.

And so hospitals are very tempting targets because they're very large enterprises, very short stabs and very old outdated equipment. They are very tempting targets. And once you get in there, you can cause a lot of havoc.

And better yet, you know, all those profits that they have that they're trying to give away to the shareholders, that means that you might be able to lock up some systems and encrypt some data and get the regulators on your butt if you don't pay us to unlock all of it. That's right. Hospitals do have a tendency to pay ransoms and other kinds of extortion fees.

So here's a thought for all of you hospital IT administrators out there. It might be time to invest some of those profits in keeping yourselves out of the news and out of reports like this. I mean, we're not gonna get universal healthcare in this country overnight, but maybe we could keep people from dying because folks don't know how it works.

You may have noticed last week that Amazon Web Services had their big New York summit, and during that summit, they announced some new tools to make it easier for companies to build and run AI agents. The main launch, which was called Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, which is also my favorite gospel band of all time, helps developers get AI agents into production a little bit faster. AWS is expanding its marketplace to offer ready to use AI tools from partners like Salesforce and Deloitte to ready support for AI with better data.

They have improved Amazon S3 storage and introduced the SageMaker catalog to help organize and find data a little bit more easily. Another tool is called kiro, and it lets developers use natural language to create and manage AI projects. Almost like it's a vibe overall.

AWS is making it simpler for businesses to adopt and scale AI across their operations. My question for you, Al, is that a good thing? Yes and no.

And maybe, and it depends. I think that's the answer to all of the questions we ask ourselves at the moment. Uh, it is nice to see AWS taking some of the heavy lifting away from the job of building AI solutions.

So seeing more packaged capabilities to, to assemble together an AI solution is good. Um, making it easier for developers to add AI to their applications when we start recognizing that AI is not the thing, it's the thing that makes the thing better. Thanks Bobby.

Element. Google, um, that AI is a feature of a product, or it's a, it's a, a tool that you, you use as a capability in your thing. It's, it's not by itself valuable as a thing.

And so making it easier to integrate AI into your existing applications, making it easier to get AI into your interactions with your customers or with your internal uh, staff, anything that that helps us make that easier has gotta be good, particularly if it helps us make it easier in a way that's cost effective in the long term. That last bit might be a little interesting. Uh, one of the changes in here is, um, taking the Amazon S3 service, that place where people dump all of their big data that they dunno what to do with, uh, and en enhancing more, more capabilities around both metadata and also vectors.

Vectors are a really important part for what's called retrieval, augmented generational rag. It's the, the way that we will be taking business data and adding it to our generative AI applications. And so these are very important capabilities that are gonna be very useful for people who are already committed to using AWS to, to hold everything and make it easier for them to build applications.

Um, I remain a little cynical around AI tools being used to build AI tools, just kera. Uh, but we'll see. We'll see how that plays out.

I've been wrong in the past when I've been cynical about products and thought that they would never, uh, work very well. So let's hope this one does, does work very well. From what I can tell.

Kira has definitely gotten some attention and people have been playing around with Kira a lot. Uh, but getting towards large scale pipelined ai, lots of agent ai, this is where, rather than the AI reporting to a human and actually complete some task itself, uh, this is definitely a place where we're seeing a lot of development. And that's one of the things that's in the, um, Google's Vertex AI builder, uh, AI agent builder in particular.

Um, there's a, a whole collection of tools that AWS is hoping will bring them forward on that. Uh, all of the big cloud providers are, are looking to make it easier to build your AI applications. And AWS definitely wants to be on that.

Intel, on the other hand, has ended the clear Linux OS project after 10 years. This is a Linux operating system that was built to be very lean and very high performance, specifically and exclusively on Intel hardware. Uh, it's no longer getting updates and patches and, uh, users have been advised to switch to another Linux distribution because, well, there's gonna be no updates and patches, um, no official reason for the removal of this Linux distribution, but you've gotta think that it's to do with the refocusing within Intel that they're cutting off a thing that has relatively low usage and pretty high maintenance cost.

Um, Intel says it will support Linux still, but by providing hardware optimizations for other Linux distributions, Tom is, uh, clear Linux an important part of your estate or your, uh, deployed environments anywhere? No, and I don't think it was a very important part of anybody else's either. And I think that's the reason why Intel has decided to cut it loose, is because it does take resources to maintain things like a Linux distribution.

And when you are optimizing your Linux distribution to run on a platform, you have to make sure that it runs better than anybody else's. You have to take every trick that you can. I mean, who among us hasn't tried to emerge a into distribution onto a specific architecture?

I can't even finish that sentence without laughing, because it's been a while since anybody's done that. Intel wanted you to run clear Linux on their platforms because it gave them an advantage because that Linux was faster, however much faster that was. Well, guess what?

Now they don't have a whole lot of platforms left for you to run Linux on. A lot of the things that they're focusing on don't run an operating system natively. And so, so they're just kind of saying, well, why don't we just slipstream our features into other more popular distributions and then we can gain that advantage across all of our, uh, locations, because I promise you, unless they included like a download code in the box of the server that you bought, or the knuck that you bought, nobody was gonna go out and search for Best Linux OS for, for, uh, Intel.

They were just gonna go download whatever they're used to running, whether it's Ubuntu or Slack wear or whatever. And the fact that they don't even have the knock anymore or any of their servers or really anything that's customer facing should tell you. I mean, the only reason that people would've wanted to use Clear Linux is if it gave them a definite advantage on that Intel GPU, oh man, I almost got through that sentence without laughing.

Uh, that's the problem is that this entire thing has become less about the OS running on the actual server and more about how you can interface with GPUs. And Intel's not in a position to do that right now. A MD doesn't care.

Nvidia doesn't care. They're just letting you run whatever you want. So in a way, clear Linux will live because if the repos are out there, somebody will grab them and and do something with them.

But I don't think it's gonna live the way that you think it will. The, the product will live on in other Linux distributions because they'll become a little bit more optimized for certain intel architectures. But at the end of the day, the people who are responsible for maintaining it will be sacked eventually, or just reassigned somewhere and doing something boring like, I don't know, working on a car or something.

Microsoft has reached a deal with C-I-S-P-E. I'm sure there's a way to pronounce that, but it's very European because that's a group of European cloud providers. The deal, of course, is how they're going to change their software in the way that it's licensed in Europe.

The agreement offers local hosting pay as you go pricing and fewer data sharing requirements. Well, the goal of this is to help EU vendors compete with Microsoft's own cloud services. Weird.

C-I-S-P-E calls it a big step forward for digital privacy and fairness, which sounds like a very EU thing to say, but those nasty critics say that it gives Microsoft a little bit too much control. It doesn't actually fix the deeper competition issues, and it shuts out the other big global players. You know, the names Amazon and Google.

Uh, some believe that it's a tactic to really try to avoid tougher regulations, but also keep a little bit of that market power, which quite honestly sounds totally on brand for a giant cloud company trying to play in Europe. Al do you think Microsoft is just paying lip service or do you think this is part of a nefarious plot? Oh, I'm a fan of nefarious plots.

At least they make interesting stories. And, uh, no, I'm, I'm not too much of a conspiracy theorist, but I do think that big organizations are gonna do what's best for the big organization and, uh, Microsoft with Azure is, its Crown Jewels is gonna be no different from any other big organization. What's happened here is that the, uh, C-I-S-P-E, yeah, I dunno how to pronounce that either.

Uh, have this group of, um, providers in in Europe have done a deal with Microsoft where they get better licensing for Microsoft products than other cloud providers who are potentially not in Europe. Uh, I think this is good in terms of providing more options for Europe based customers to maintain data sovereignty. And that's, that's really one of the central elements in here is that a lot of customers in Europe would like to use Microsoft Cloud, but want guarantees that, for example, their German companies data will always remain on German soil and won't end up maybe in Polish data center or some other location that is not German soil currently.

Um, so it's interesting that this has all happened in Europe, a place where a lot of regulation and market intervention through regulation, also with a lot of data sovereignty. This really to me, does come back to that data sovereignty thing around Europe. Uh, but there are a huge number of other cloud providers, both large and small, who would like to have a more friendly licensing model with the Microsoft software.

So I think this is getting ahead of some kind of, um, regulation and a precedent being set by that regulation that might come back and bite them around the world, uh, as maybe regulators start saying, well, Microsoft's misusing its position of dominance, uh, again and uh, is using its licensing to be anti-competitive. So yeah, I, I think we'll see continued little deals being done to avoid a big precedent, uh, because those deals can always be wound back later on if it suits Microsoft better that way. Like any large organization, their objective is to maximize shareholder value and they don't do that by minimizing cost to customers, at least not directly.

Broadcom has launched the Tomahawk ultra powerful ethernet chips, uh, switch chip built to support large AI and high performance compute HPC systems. It connects up to 256 processes, four times more than NVIDIA's competing product, uh, and uses open ethernet standards instead of proprietary InfiniBand technology. Uh, the Ultra offers very fast data speeds, uh, low delays, advanced features that support scale up and scale out computing, making it easier and cheaper to build and manage AI networks.

Chips made using TMCs five nanometer processor and is already shipping to customers. So we should be seeing this shipping in some switches soon, Tom, we absolutely should. And if you haven't figured it out yet, the reason why this is not just a plain old tomahawk is because of ultra, the ultra was not just a random superlative that they picked out of the dictionary, this is in fact running ultra ethernet.

You know, that industry thing that they got together with companies like Cisco and a MD to do basically is like, oh, Nvidia, you wanna create a custom proprietary protocol for doing AI ethernet stuff. What if we did one on our own and made it a standard? 0 standard recently, uh, a few months ago, which basically means that's about enough time for a company like Broadcom to come out with something that utilizes that spec.

And of course they're gonna pick Tomahawk because Tomahawk is their their switching line. And so I think this is a valuable lesson because we've seen Nvidia making moves in other places. Nvidia has opened up their architecture.

No, no, no, no. Hold on. Before you leave that comment talking about Nvidia and open source and all that other stuff, I wasn't talking about that.

I was talking about the fact that NVIDIA is allowing other companies to design and sell Spectrum X platforms. You know, it would be like if Cisco wrote an RFC for E-I-G-R-P. They did.

The idea here is that Nvidia wants more of the companies that are leading and networking to sell their Spectrum X technology. Because once the companies that are buying Nvidia technology start using Spectrum X in the network, they're kind of locked in. You know, that thing we hate vendor lock in?

Well, in this case, Broadcom is hoping that people are gonna start deploying ultra ethernet. And the idea is, is that they're selling this on a trusted platform. Tomahawk, they're selling it as well.

It's a tomahawk, but it does more. So if you're already looking to refresh to build out a new AI pod or something like that, why don't you give us a shot? We'll probably send some people out there to make sure that it works.

Everything will be copacetic. And as soon as you know that it works the way you want it to, we we'll continue to improve it as new specs come out for ultra ethernet and then you won't have to use Spectrum X, right? That is the ultimate goal here, is that they really want people to leverage their technology.

And look, I get it. There's, this is the same thing that I've had to deal with in my life in the Cisco world. There's Cisco and there there's what everybody else got together to make the, so that it's the opposite of Cisco only this time it's companies like Broadcom and Cisco getting together to make a standard that's the opposite of Nvidia, which is one a way that you know that you are the biggest player in the market.

But two, it is probably the only way that people are gonna be able to come together to create this standard. Because if Broadcom and Cisco had been competing with each other to create a standard for an open ethernet fabric that would allow it to compete with InfiniBand, we would've never gotten to this point. The fact that Nvidia kind of won that battle tells me that they all know where the issues are.

And so that's kind of where we are. And, and Bravo to Broadcom for getting it out the door. Uh, granted they kind of knew what it was gonna look like, so you know, it's like when those draft, uh, wifi specification routers come out and it's like, well, we were involved in writing the draft, so we were pretty sure that this was gonna be final, so we were able to get one out the door before anybody else.

That's the kind of thing that you want from someone who's a market leader in switching technology. Well, it's time for us to take a little bit of a closer look and we, um, saw that hackers have used a Sirius and previously unknown flaw in Microsoft SharePoint service software to launch a major global cyber attack. The attackers hit US government agencies, universities, energy companies, and more, uh, but only affect onsite servers, not the cloud service that Microsoft would rather use, uh, stolen data and encryption keys could let hackers keep access to systems even after they're patched to mitigate the original vulnerability.

And Microsoft has released a fixed for some versions, but many servers are still at risk. Authorities in the US Canada, and Australia are investigating with over 50 organizations confirmed already affected so far. Tom, have you been able to find out the attacker's identity or their goals for this attack?

Uh, well, I, I can tell you what their goals are to steal as much stuff as it's not bolted down and get out the door before anybody catches us. That's, that's every thieves idea, right? And SharePoint's pretty juicy 'cause it's document repository, so we can get in there and get all the stuff, uh, as to the identity of the, uh, the people, no, but I can wager a guess according to some articles that I read, the traffic seems to be sourced from China.

Go figure. Chinese hacking groups are exploiting vulnerabilities to steal American data news at 11 and 12 and possibly at two if we can get into SharePoint and write up the scripts. So this is basically what happened is Microsoft discovered a vulnerability and they announced it on Saturday.

You knew it was bad if they announced it on Saturday, but they were already two weeks behind the curve because they were starting to see intrusions on the 7th of July. So they've had a two week lead time to get this patch put together, and you are absolutely right. They only patch the latest versions of SharePoint back to I think 2019.

So if you're still running SharePoint 2016, why upgrade, please, uh, call Microsoft. I bet you they'll cut you a deal. Um, although it's funny because Microsoft has been trying for a very long time to get people to move off of self-hosting.

Remember like a lot of the, the issues that we've had with Exchange over the past few years have been, and because Microsoft is slow to release patches for on-prem exchange and their argument is, well, why don't you just move it into the cloud? Well, I mean, I know why Microsoft wants you to move it into the cloud because you get money for that, right? You get to pay a rental fee for your exchange server.

Uh, but you know, there's the pesky regulatory thing and there are companies that don't, aren't in the US and, and wanna control over their data. Um, surprise we found a bug in SharePoint. Uh, and here's the other thing too, as you mentioned in the article, this is what makes it especially insidious.

One, the traffic looks like normal user traffic. So it's not like you're trying to send flood the machine or you're trying to do like a cross site scripting attack or anything like that. It really does look like legitimate traffic.

But two, one of the things that they're able to steal before you can stop them is the hardware key to the machine. Which means that after you abscond with that, you can just get back in unless you change a lot of things on the system. And that's a problem because this creates what we like to refer to as a foothold.

And this is one of the things that if you are an attacker, you want, you want persistence, you want to be able to get into the system as surreptitiously as possible, create a foothold, persist. And that way whenever they've deployed countermeasures, you can get back in whenever you want. And this is one of the things that we saw, I would be willing to bet this is related to the same groups that did the big email hack last year.

They don't care about the executives email box today. I mean, yeah, harvesting all those emails would be really nice. They want access to that email box in six months because that's hot intel that they can use or sell or extort with, right?

And that's the name of the game here. You get access to a SharePoint server, especially unfettered Access because you have hardware keys. You could get design documents for new software or new hardware.

You could get a press release a couple of days before it gets released and possibly make yourself a little bit of coin on the side by investing heavily or selling off if you know there's bad news coming, like this is problematic. And I promise you there are auditors out there right now that are licking their chops because they know that SharePoint is gonna make them a small fortune for the next couple of years because the amount of time that it's gonna take to get those things patched, to verify their patch status and to continually monitor them to make sure that nobody's already got a foot hold in them is going to produce a lot of revenue for cybersecurity companies. Al would you be worried if you were running SharePoint right now?

Well, yes, yes, I would. If I was running on premises share SharePoint, whether it was my own or if I was maybe using a service that was being offered to me by a third party that's not Microsoft that were hosting a SharePoint environment for me, I've seen both of those recently in customers, and this would be kind of terrifying that there could be that persistent access over time, uh, and that the mitigation to, to remove that persistent access doesn't seem to be something that's being directly addressed in these patches. Um, you know, there, there does need to be a, uh, an effort out of Microsoft to find a way or to provide a mechanism to, to lock back out that persistent access without having to, you know, pave the whole road again, rebuild all of your exchange environment, uh, your, um, SharePoint environment from the ground up, because that's a nightmare.

Uh, but I think Tom, you're, you are right on this one that the slowness of releasing patches, right? Two weeks after they first saw some vulnerable or some exploitation of this vulnerability before there were patches out for, uh, the on-prem SharePoint. You've gotta imagine that the reason we haven't seen a big attack on the SharePoint on Office 3 6 5 is that that patch was released a lot faster.

Yeah, and that's one of the other things that they're talking about here because somebody asked me this yesterday, do you think that this affects the cloud services too? And my initial thought before I read, uh, more reports was, yeah, well, of course if it's flawed SharePoint, it's gonna affect it whether it's on-prem or hosted. The difference of course is that if it's hosted in Microsoft Azure, we can patch it right away.

And I'm sure that they deployed those patches the instant they were ready so that their cloud customers were at least not affected by this, which is probably gonna be a selling point, right? If you want to be protected from all this stuff migrated into SharePoint online and, and you won't have these problems, which kind of feels a little bit disingenuous, right? If you're not gonna keep the the on-prem software up to date, why bother selling it?

I, here's the other thing that people really need to understand. We, we talk a lot about this on, on the rundown. Like we, I joke all the time that if I just wanted to do my stories all were breach stories or exploit stories, I could, I mean, that's basically what the Risky Business podcast is all about, right?

But this one was not one that was only on like bleeping computer or the register this hit the Washington Post. This hit Reuters. This was big.

This is big. When regular traditional news outlets pick up on your problems, you have messed up. And so Microsoft, you need to get the, the, the dwell time on those patches down a little bit.

And you need to start patching versions that are not, you know, like n minus two at the very least. Um, but also you need to make sure that your on-premises customers are getting the same level of service as your cloud customers. Because if you don't, you're gonna have a bunch of unhappy people who are just gonna dump this and go back to the good old fashioned thing of burning all their documents to CDs and passing them around the office like Frisbees.

Luckily we don't do that around here because we are a modern organization that continues to have great events like the ones that we have coming up. And we are just a couple weeks out from our next big one, which is gonna be Tech Field Day Extra at Share Cleveland that's gonna be taking place August 19th and 20th. Stephen Foskett is gonna be traveling up the road to talk about all the great stuff involved with mainframe computing.

com because we just signed up a new sponsor and you're gonna wanna check out who they are and then we're gonna take a little bit of a break and let the heat come down a little bit. And al you're gonna be back with the next event after that. I am at AI Infrastructure Field Day returning in September 10th, 11th, maybe 12th as well.

I am getting together my panel of delegates for that and the, uh, presenting sponsoring companies. We're building out that list at the moment. And, uh, it's gonna be another awesome event.

We're gonna have a lot of fun for those those few days and learn quite a lot about some of this AI stuff that you might have heard about. Of course, we take a little break after that before Tom has to come out and make sure that we're not getting in the New Zealand news the way that Microsoft Exploit did this week, uh, because you're back for Security Field day. Yeah, I'm bringing a whole bunch of friends to help me out too, because what good is a Tiger team if you don't have a team and, uh, we're gonna have some amazing delegates that are gonna be showing up to help us out with this great conversation.

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