Curiosity in Practice
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
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
Security Summer Camp (BSidesLV, Blackhat and Defcon) is the most important week in the security industry and as such you need to be prepared to network like a professional. Here are 6 things you can do this week to get ready: Freshen Up Your Social Media Profiles Is your twitter profile picture 4 years old? Does your twitter … Read more
There has been a lot of talk about why you should use a VPN on public networks and why it shouldn’t be a commercial one. I am a huge fan of the Streisand privacy stack because it includes and L2TP/IPsec VPN, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge all in one amazing package. The problem … Read more
I worked with a consultant using the lair framework two years ago and since then I have been a huge fan of the project to manage pentest information. Tom Steele has done an amazing job with the project but it has been a pain to install but thanks to Ryan Hanson and Docker you can now setup a lair instance with 7 … Read more