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“I am useless by myself. My success hinges entirely on the people in my life.”  I was challenged this weekend to think about this statement and decide if I really believed it or not.  It was such a thought provoking statement that I wanted to share it and not overly pollute it with my own … Read more

I wrote Bad Actors this weekend to automatically generate a list of known bad IP addresses.  My plan is to use it to do data mining with against my ELK stack but It might also be handy for firewall and IPS rules or any other use you could come up with. 

I had a friend recently tell me about how he was using a tool called rPlay to airplay his apple devices through his raspberry pi.  As a guy who is always looking to save $67 I decided to give it a try. After configuring it I couldn’t get it to work and after some investigation I found an … Read more

How Do You Handle Challenges? We have all been asked that question during a job interview and went on to talk lie about how much we love new challenges and how well equipped we are to handle them.  Most people hate challenges.  We strive for easy, stable and guaranteed results.  Challenges are hard, unpredictable and always … Read more

I had the chance this week to speak at the 44CON Cyber Security conference on communication skills.  One of the take aways from my talk is that security professionals should always think CISSP when they are communicating.   Not this CISSP (which is great) but they should think this CISSP when the communicate:  Clear The single biggest problem … Read more