Curiosity in Practice
Like most security professionals I am spending a large amount of time helping my company move securely to AWS. Certificate management in AWS is done with AWS Certificate Manager and while they do offer *free* certificates, ACM generated certs are outside your direct control. You don’t get the keys which, at least for some things, should … Read more
Recently I started looking at the Umbrella DNS Popularity List and did a blog post about it here. The data seemed valuable and lacking at the same time so I spent my *limited* free time this week learning about R and RStudio. Protip: If you want to play along at home there is an RStudio docker container so all … Read more
I am a big fan of DigiCert for TLS Certificates and CA/WebPKI services. While they have amazing customer support and are an amazing company to work with, there are not a lot of automation scripts to interact with their API available. So over the weekend and with a lot of help from Clint Wilson I built a … Read more
I was at dinner on Tuesday with 6 security professionals and I proposed this hypothetical situation and I thought it was worth writing up and sharing. Background: Six identical safes with $1,000,000 inside are being built into the side of a public building and are being randomly assigned to everyone at the dinner. At the … Read more
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