Category Archives: Security

All things related to security.

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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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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Fixing Thunderbird + Enigmail + GPG-Agent passphrase cacheing on CentOS/RHEL 6

Ok this has been bothering me for a while, I upgrade my desktop to CentOS 6 to have a nice stable platform going forward from my previous Fedora 14 install and all was good.  Except Enigmail gpg passphrase caching broke.  … Continue reading

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Really not dead yet…. (Yes an update)

So it’s been over two years since my last post.  Been very busy in my life and haven’t had time to do as much tinkering and computer stuff at home as I usually would.  That’s not to say I haven’t … Continue reading

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How to secure and Eee PC 1000 and why

Ok, so I’ve had my new Eee PC 1000 for several days and am loving it.  But, I did find a few really glaring security issues.  So with a lot of research I’ve come up with a basic list of … Continue reading

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