With some downtime over the holidays, I was checking in to see if my ISP has added IPv6 support yet. But sadly nothing had changed in months. So just for fun, I reset up a 6 in 4 tunnel to Hurricane Electric from my router. Sending traffic in a tunnel to HE rather than directly …
ISC2’s blog has an feature where they interview CISSPs from around the world, and I see this month they interview Javvad Malik. Its a nice interview, but nothing compared to his original piece on the benefits of being a CISSP.
Shoshin is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning “beginner’s mind.” It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and a lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level. As IT people we aren’t always known for our attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions. Its an easy …
Today I received an email inviting me to buy a Easy File Shredder product for a special price of $15 instead of the usual price of $50. Securely deleting sensitive data is really important. But is buying a product really needed? This type of thing has generally been needed because when you delete a file, …
Remember back when Summer and Christmas break was a high time of concern. The kids were out of college and ready to try out their skills. Christmas was worse because so many people were out of the office, no one would notice. Or if they did the response would be limited. Now that’s what we …
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Everyone and his brother, inside of infosec and outside has been chortling at Kanye’s iPhone password. Its 00000. Not everyone is in on the joke. Some express OUTRAGE. “how dare you share that man’s password” (it was on CNN, its out there now). Some (and these remind me of the 4D Chess MAGA people) theorize …
There are people who enjoy messing with scammers by replying to scam, or implementing the Jolly Roger Telephone company. While its a few years old, I just watched a couple of James Veitch Ted Talks on what happens when you reply to spam email. Its hilarious. This is what happens when you reply to spam …
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Dreamhost was sending me cryptic emails about my site using too many resources then dieing as a result. Then Jetpack site monitoring was finding the site down, presumably due to running out of resources. And the homepage loaded too slowly. So a technical problem was at hand. There aren’t a lot of resources out there …
You have 20 seconds to comply – RobocopWatch this video on YouTube.
Long before WannaCry used a recently patched Microsoft vulnerability to exploit machines, the recommendation was to disable SMBv1. Disabling old protocols isn’t sexy. You’re breaking things, and not introducing new features. You’re fixing theoretical future attacks. Perhaps the willingness to take on this challenge is a good measure of the maturity level of …