Curiosity in Practice
My friends at DigitalOcean were nice enough to give me a generous amount of credit on their cloud platform to do some security research with so I decided to do the most reckless thing I could think of and run a full ssh honeypot on the internet. The build out is pretty simple, it is the … Read more
I took some time tonight and read through the Security Summer Camp (BSidesLV, Blackhat and Defcon) schedules and picked the talks from this year that I think will be the best and that I do not want to miss. I ended up with these 16 talks I am going to make a special point to see next week: BSidesLV … Read more
We are two weeks away from Security Summer Camp (which is BSidesLV, Blackhat and Defcon)! So it is time for everyone to write their annual blog posts about what you must do before you head out. I want to be one of the cool kids so here is my list of 6 things to … Read more
While doing security research it is not uncommon for me to build and destroy between 20 and 25 cloud servers a week on Digital Ocean. While there are great guides like: My First 10 Minutes On a Server – Primer for Securing Ubuntu My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux … Read more
There has been a lot of talk about why you should use a VPN on public networks and why it shouldn’t be a commercial one. I am a huge fan of the Streisand privacy stack because it includes and L2TP/IPsec VPN, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge all in one amazing package. The problem … Read more