Curiosity in Practice
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
I had lunch with a mentor last week and he closed lunch with this thought and it has been stuck in my head ever since: There are two choices you are constantly making in your life, you either change things or accept them. We make that choice hundreds of times a day and most of … Read more
Ever year on my birthday I always like to take an hour and write down some of the lessons I learned and quotes that have inspired and motived me over the year. Here are some of my favorite from this year: The only real things that matter in life are attitude and perspective. The … Read more
After reading a few stories like this “Apple Leaves CNNIC Root in iOS, OSX Certificate Trust Lists” that didnt include instructions on how to remove them yourself I wrote a quick and ugly bash script that automatically removes the CNNIC and the China Internet Network Information Center EV Certificates Root certificates from OSX. You can download it here. Use … Read more
I heard an amazing TED Talk on the way to work today and information was too good to not share. Here are 5 guaranteed ways to kill your dreams: Believe in overnight success.No one becomes successful over night. We have been trained as a society to devalue work ethic and think that all success is instant. … Read more
What is your time worth? That is the question that started my lunch with a mentor last week. I thought for a second and did some quick math and then pulled $300 an hour number out of the air. He laughed and gave me these two quotes: The price of anything is the amount of … Read more
Information Security is an occupation filled with professional cynics, curmudgeons and defeatist who are often proud of that role and at the same time do not understand while they are not included in decision making in their companies. I think some security professionals think that Mordac is a role model: A mentor of mine who is a … Read more
Today is “Safer Internet Day” and I couldn’t let such an amazing made up holiday go by without giving you some of my favorite personal security tips. Enable Two Factor Authentication.Google, Facebook, Twitter and hopefully your bank all offer two factor authentication. Enabling it adds an extra layer of security to help protect your accounts. Be Smarter About Your … Read more