I recently read a friend’s post about her family’s catastrophic woes dealing with a hacked Apple ID account. Her story was so troubling that it inspired me to remind folks of some of a few small security things that slip through the cracks in our daily lives that can cause a profound impact on our… Read More The Biggest “Small” Personal Digital Security Mistakes
A Ready Player One major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg is scheduled for release in March 2018, resulting in a recent resurgence of popularity of the Ernest Cline cyberpunk novel which serves as its inspiration. So, this seems like as good a time as any for me to briefly revisit the 2011 novel and… Read More The Infosec of Ready Player One – A Review
A common practice of researchers studying a piece of malware is to seize control of its malicious command and control domains, then redirect traffic to them to benign research servers for analysis and victim notification. I always highly recommend monitoring for traffic to these sinkholes – it is frequently indicative of infection. I’ve found no… Read More Consolidated Malware Sinkhole List
A number of people have asked about what I carry at a typical hacking con. In the blog below, I provide a brief overview. This article isn’t meant to be an endorsement and was in no way sponsored. Use what works for you, but I have included links for things when I can remember where… Read More What’s in my (Hacking Con) bag?
