Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City by Scott A. Huesing Echo In Ramadi details the hell on earth faced by Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment during 2006. This book is very dear to…
A great deal has changed in the last two months for the better. My family has completed our move to the South Carolina and we are loving all of it. There is still a good amount of adjustment to do,…
What did I learn by going thru a NERC CIP audit? A lot…
ISC2 has finally formally approved my CISSP certification. One major goal for the year has been completed…now for all the rest!
It looks like big telco is trying to break up wholesale subsidies, according to an article in ArsTechnica.
I’ve made a great deal of progress with my personal goals over the last few months. My CISSP is currently in review waiting for final approval, and my GPEN is in progress. I’ve even managed to post semi-regular blog posts….
One of my biggest annoyances with my regular Nessus scans are the continuous medium risks related to weak SSL ciphers. Nartac Software created a simple tool to help admins fix these issues: ISSCrypto. Simply download the tool, then run it…
I became aware yesterday that several sources are reporting Energy Services Group was “hacked” or “attacked.” There’s been a little saber rattling about hackers getting control of the US energy markets. Being that I’ve had some dealings with ESG over…
A few months ago, I had moved almost all of my storage into Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud depending on the usage. This allowed me to turn down my old Dell FreeNAS server in an attempt to save on my…
Folks – it’s time to tick everyone off with network maintenance windows! Cisco PSIRT released 30 vulnerabilities in their router firmware across multiple versions of IOS and IOS EX. Three critical vulnerabilities include one hard-coded credential affecting all IOS XE routers…