Unstable Path

Always take the road less traveled.

Year: 2017

Decluttering your social media

I’ve decided that one of my new habits is to keep my social media footprint to a bare minimum.  Listening to the newly discovered Complete Privacy and Security podcast has definitively changed my mind on how I handle my opsec.

CISSP certification

I’ve been toying with getting this certificate for a while, but now I see this seems to be a golden ticket to get past the HR filters at larger companies. The cert demonstrates a broad knowledge of the overall security…

Random DNS lookups by Chrome

After a couple hours of boredom waiting for a conference to start, I decided to fire up Wireshark and see what I could see across the wireless.  I was greeted with the first few packets appearing to be my machine…

At a crossroad

My family is approaching a major life crossroad: My stepson will graduate from high school next year and heading off to college. 

Sendmail took down my site!

After a week of being very busy with other things, I wanted to take a few minutes and check on my blog only to be greeted by “Site cannot be reached.” SSH’ing into the site resulted in a similar response….

Oh you sneaky bastards!

Equifax lost over 140 million customer’s personal information during a recent breach.  44% of Americans just lost control over their social security, drivers license, and credit card numbers along with their names, birth date, addresses…basically everything required to start building false…

Welcome to the new blog site!

I’ve finally gone pro!  Both my previous blogs have been migrated over to this new site running my own private domain.  The site is still in flux at the moment, but I’m hoping to grow it as time goes on.