🚨 FUD Thursdays with Jack The HypeRipper 🎩 😎

Hi 👋 🤙

I’m Jacek Fleszar (Jack), a cybersecurity expert based in Poland, with 20+ years in the field. Most of my career was in international banks, and among other teams, I worked in the fascinating world of Cyber Intelligence. My true passion has always been cybersecurity itself - in every form. I love it from the deeply (socio)technical side to the truly (psycho)logical puzzles. Cyber is simply my sandbox with shiny but a bit dirty toys.

Life can be as unpredictable as a zero-day! After some tough personal turns in recent years and a career shift toward development, I stayed quiet for a while - stepping back from public talks, conferences, and social spaces. But now it’s time to re-emerge, reconnect, and share again! 🚀

That’s why I’m launching FUD Thursdays to tackle Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Each week, I’ll dissect the most hyped cybersecurity stories and cut through the noise! The name’s inspired by Poland’s Fat Thursday tradition - when we eat way too many doughnuts before Lent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Thursday) 🍩🥐 - because sometimes cyber news gets just as over-sweet with the hype!

The goal: Stay professional, sprinkle in humor, focus on facts and action over panic. Weekly posts bring official sources, calm analysis, and geek joy. Use #Hushtag to hush the FUD - anywhere you spot it!

Disclaimer: Free-time passion project. Big AI fan here - I’ll use it to streamline posts, but personally verify every fact, detail, and tone. Final touch is always mine. Just starting, so still under construction 🏗️ - tweaking tone/format. Bear with me and feed me feedback till I’m full and fat (not FUD)! 😄

Last Week’s Quick Hits: 📊

• Notepad++ “hiJack(theHypeRipper)”: Discriminating targeting per Kaspersky telemetry - handful of victims (~12 machines across govt/finance/IT orgs + individuals), even with their broad global coverage showing no mass hits.
Official: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ | Kaspersky: https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/

• Panera Bread “breach”: Hype claimed 14M records, drops to 5.1M unique users - classic scale exaggeration via Have I Been Pwned leak analysis.
Source: https://www.scworld.com/brief/panera-bread-data-breach-affects-5-1-million-accounts-not-14-million

#FUDThursdays #JackTheHypeRipper #HypeRipper #HypeHush #Hushtag

Social media references so that you can trust me 😎:

• Twitter/X: https://x.com/TheHypeRipper
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacek-fleszar/
• Facebook (private): https://www.facebook.com/j.m.fleszar
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/jmfleszar/