Quickly Building A Cloud Virtual Lab

Often while doing research I need temporary access to a bunch of different virtual machines. While it is possible to do this on my Macbook using VMWare Fusion or Virtualbox the overhead seems unnecessary for something I will delete in under a week. My goto solution is a virtualization stack of: 16GB DigitalOcean Droplet + Wok … Read more

Reminder: Operational Security Is Hard

I love OWASP  (I wanted to get that out of the way) but they let their TLS certificate expire yesterday: Should it have happened to an organization whose whole goal is to secure web applications? No. There are a million reasons why their TLS certificate could have expired and plenty of reasons it shouldn’t have … Read more

Build Your Own Honeypot Network In Under An Hour

Have you ever wanted to control a vast medium small network of Honeypots but only had an hour and about $40 a month to spend on your project? So did I!  So with the help of Digital Ocean and Anomali‘s Modern Honey Network we can now do it! For a basic distributed Cowrie network you will need: 1 – … Read more

Anti-Vaxxers

In the last couple of years the Anti-Vaccination crowd in the United States has started to make inroads with more and more people deciding that the perceived risk of the vaccination outweighs the known risk of the disease. When you ask them why they dont vaccinatie they always have anecdotal evidence of how the vaccination could hurt them,  how … Read more

Finding and Mapping Domains With R

As I continue to try to learn R,  I am trying to build tools that other people might find useful. Tonight with the help of Bob Rudis I built a script that will find domains with a keyword in it from DomainPunch, do a geoip lookup and map it if it is online. Since it is time … Read more