Port Scanning Through TOR

Scanning a host with Nmap is a fairly routine act for some in security to do but you from time to time you want to either get a different view of a host or try to  conceal your public IP.  In this case I use this simple “trick” to run an nmap scan through TOR. To … Read more

Grizzly Steppe IP and Hash Analysis

Yesterday US-Cert released information on GRIZZLY STEPPE  the malware used in the DNC hack.  The IP and hash information provided by the US-Cert was really lacking  so I decided to dig through it and see if I could make more of it. The first thing I did was to run the  IPs through an ipinfo2sheets spreadsheet … Read more

DIY USB Killer

In November I saw this youtube video on turning a USB Air Purifier into  a  $75 USB Killer: https://youtu.be/82-MDymVkps My soldering skills are basically nonexistent so while I had some time off around the holidays I decided this would be a decent project to help improve them. So in early December I ordered 3 of these from … Read more

Digital Ocean Slack Bot

I had a coach whose favorite quote was “Pain is the best teacher.”  and that was the first thing that popped into my head this morning when I realized that I had left an $80 a month  Digital Ocean Droplet  running for an extra 3 weeks after I got done using it.   To be honest $60 … Read more

Making It Snow (In Your Terminal)

I am a huge fan of snow and hacky one line linux commands.   Thanks to some amazing people on twitter and a little too much free time at the end of the year they have both combined to bring snow to your terminal window just in time for your winter based holiday. This command works on OSX … Read more