Curiosity in Practice
Today I was asked if it was possible to generate a list of domain names registered everyday with a keyword in the record (company name, city, trademark, etc). There are a few paid services that do this and domainpunch.com has a web based tool that will do this but I wanted to automate it so I … Read more
I am reading a book called “The Art of Authenticity” and in the book over a couple of chapters it talks about understanding what makes strong leaders and deciding who you should follow. I have pulled these 10 questions out of those chapters: What was your first leadership role? When you think about the process … Read more
The RSA conference starts next week and lets be honest it is becoming known as a stuffy management conference with very little useful technical information but if you know where to look you can take some deep dives. I have put together a quick guide of some amazing talks and events I am looking forward … Read more
I use nmap all the time at work and recently came across rainmap-lite which is an amazing web interface for nmap that allows you to easily schedule and email scan results. I wanted to be able to share it with a class I am teaching so I did what I have been doing lately and put it into a … Read more
I am at Security Summer Camp this week and you always hear about how how dangerous these networks are with no real proof so I decided to see how dangerous they are*. I built the most insecure docker container I can think of. It runs SSHD with the root password set to root* to see see what happens when I … Read more
My mentor and I are in the middle of spinning up an information sharing group with local security professionals and next Friday is our first “working session” and we are discussing what building a security lab* looks like and costs. We really hope to start walking through the tools in future meetings but here is … Read more
If you do not have unlimited data on your iOS device you will want to turn off Wi-Fi Assist in iOS9. Wi-fi Assist uses your data connection when you are on a slow Wi-Fi network. To turn it off go to Settings > Cellular > Wi-Fi Assist > Off.
I have been looking for sometime to get a few security cameras setup around my house. I have thought about the dropcam and oco options but they were both fairly expensive and didn’t have the options that I wanted. What I did have was a raspberry pi 2, two old web cameras and a 6 year … Read more
People ask me all time what the one thing they should do to “stay safe” on the internet is. If I had to pick one it would be to use a VPN when you are on a network you dont own or trust. It has always taken a little bit of technical skill to setup … Read more