Continuous Network Monitoring With Slack Alerting

As I have talked about before “You can’t defend what you dont know exists”  so today while sitting around and trying to recover from walking pneumonia  I wrote slackmap to continually nmap a network and post the differences to slack: Configuration is amazingly easy.   I run a copy of this on a $5 a month Digitalocean Droplet for an external … Read more

WebSnort Docker Container

One of the first things I like to do when I start looking at a PCAP during an investigation is run it through snort to see if it finds anything suspicious. You can easily do this at the command line with  snort -dv -r test.pcap but the output is not great. I have been using a tool called … Read more

Honeyfiles from my SSHoneypots

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

The Security Summer Camp Talks I Want To See…

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

6 Technical Things To Do Before Security Summer Camp

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