Category Archives: Technology

Covering all my technical interests. Things like gadgets, computers, software, etc..

Blue Teams Next Tool: Social Engineering (Psychology and Sociology at Work) – References

This weekend I had the privilege to present at bsidesdc.org on the subject of Social Engineering techniques for use in driving positive security outcomes.  At the end of the presentation there were several great questions and a slide of reference … Continue reading

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Taking a BIG leap with two speaking engagements.

I have two speaking engagements lined up over the next two months that I’m very excited about (with a drop of stage fright).  Both are on topics I am passionate about and feel need a lot more thought in the … Continue reading

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Building a Pen Testing Laptop from Scratch ( WCTF / CTF Laptop ) part 2

With all the hardware working from Part 1, it’s time to move onto getting all the software in place.  There were plenty of references to work from, and based the on the recommendations of Wireless Village to bring Pentoo Linux … Continue reading

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Building a Pen Testing Laptop from Scratch ( WCTF / CTF Laptop ) part 1

Last month for Shmoocon I decided I wanted to expand my skills a bit and take a shot at something I hadn’t really done much of in my InfoSec career lately, not since way back in the WEP and Linux … Continue reading

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Using a ReadyNAS with OS6 as a central syslog server

In the process of building out my network intelligence system I need to have a central location to collect system and event logs on my network.  Since my ReadyNAS has Linux under the hood I figured what better place (since … Continue reading

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Updated Network

I’ve been very busy updating my home network infrastructure lately.  I wanted to improve the zone separation, while at the same time providing a reasonably secure connection between my resources at home and my resources on the net. Some of … Continue reading

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Hardware Hacking: Solar Panels and Battery Chargers

I wanted to find a way to easily charge a couple of AA and AAA batteries from a solar panel for camping, hiking, and geo-caching.  Thought it would be nice to charge via the sun vs carrying around extra batteries … Continue reading

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Why RAID 5 is NOT dead yet

So, recently I started looking to see if there was any nice hardware around to provide a solid enclosure for a Freenas based home made NAS storage system.  In looking into this, I ran across this page: Freenas Raid Overview.  … Continue reading

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Cafaro.net is now on IPv6 with Linux, Apache, and WordPress

So I finally took the time and got www.cafaro.net up and running on IPv6. I’ve had the addresses for a while and getting Linux up and talking IPv6 is pretty straight forward. All you need is to add some lines … Continue reading

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Replacement for telnet as a service sanity check

For years now I’ve used telnet as a quick and easy way to check to see if the most basic network functionality of a service like http is working. I.e. I telnet to port 80 and see the raw server … Continue reading

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