Here’s a Splunk query to list any changes to privileged Active Directory groups: Read more

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. Read more

I live in far Northern Maine – past the end of I-95. I would not have been able to earn my BS or MS degree without reliable internet at an acceptable cost. Read more

Some sources for incident response playbooks for those who are interested: Read more

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 landscape and appears to be best suited to management types (queue pointy haired boss). Read more

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 reaching out to random domains on the internet (see below). Something was attempting to lookup random hostnames on every domain in my search list.  This freaked me out more than just a little.  Was my machine infected with malware randomly trying to call home? Read more

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

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. So what happened? Read more

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 identities and robbing them blind. Read more

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.