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Continue reading →: We Wrote an Academic Paper on Conficker in 2026And it’s over 16,000 words. While the rest of the cybersecurity world moves on with AI and next generation technologies, the OT cybersecurity community is oft left behind, dealing with increasingly unique legacy challenges and tech debt. One of the biggest issues we have had to start tackling is the…
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Continue reading →: Just for Fun – An Unofficial Pen Test Game Module for D&D 5eFriends, I built an unlicensed, totally unofficial module for my local gaming group based on Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, specifically the amazing “Keys from the Golden Vault” heist book. You can download it here. It cannot be resold, and please credit me in distribution. Love to hear your feedback…
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Continue reading →: Podcast – GirlsTalkCyber – Episode 24I spoke to the GirlsTalkCyber podcast about understanding and being aware of threats against critical infrastructure. We talked about things you should think about as geopolitical, economic, and climate instability increase across the world and how that relates to cyber threats. https://girlstalkcyber.com/24-what-happens-if-hackers-poison-the-water-interview-with-lesley-carhart/
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Continue reading →: Smashing Security – 449: How to scam someone in seven daysI am so excited to be on Smashing Security! Such a huge pleasure to finally make it onto one my favorite podcasts of all time with Graham Cluley! While I spoke about the jobs market and what students and hiring managers should be doing about it, Graham told me that…
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Continue reading →: My Top 5 Recommendations on OT Cybersecurity Student UpskillingI get asked about where to start learning OT cybersecurity as a student a lot. I fully realize that attention spans are short and people are busy, so without further ado let’s get to my top five recommendations: I hope this gives you a few more ideas! Happy new year!
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Continue reading →: Destination Cyber Podcast on OTPlease see my recent podcast on OT foundations and current events with Destination Cyber from KBI.FM!
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Continue reading →: Reasonable Expectations for Cybersecurity MenteesMost of my audience is on the more senior end of the career spectrum. As a result, a lot of my writing about careers is aimed at senior cybersecurity professionals, encouraging managers and experienced practitioners to support the next generation. But that doesn’t mean newcomers are free from responsibility in…
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Continue reading →: The Top 10 Things I’d Like to See in University OT Cybersecurity Curriculum (2025 Edition)Most of you who have been following me for a while know that I have a very strange and unusual job in cybersecurity. I’m one of maybe a hundred or so people on earth who does full time incident response and forensics for industrial devices and networks that are hacked.…
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Continue reading →: Open Online Mentoring GuideI’ve had a sign up for open online career mentoring on my site for quite a number of years now (in addition to running similar career clinics in-person). As I’ve gotten more and more traction internationally on the program, a lot of senior folks have asked how to set up…
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Continue reading →: Stories Ink Interviewed Me, and I love Stories.
I was recently at the Tech Leaders Summit in Hunter Valley and the imitable Jennifer O’Brien covered my backstory and how I got into the odd space of Operational Technology. This is a nice change of format for people who aren’t into podcasts and she tells such a good narrative.…
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I’m Lesley, aka Hacks4Pancakes
Nice to meet you. I’m a long-time digital forensics and incident response professional, specializing in industrial control and critical infrastructure environments. I teach, lecture, speak, and write about cybersecurity.
I’m from Chicago, living in Melbourne.
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