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Wireshark Packet Sniffer Lab
A packet sniffer is either a hardware appliance or software that enables someone to view packets that are “heard” by a network interface. Wireshark is a particularly full featured packet sniffing software package that runs on Mac, Windows and UNIX/Linux. I’ve used the basic features of the software, but the lab gives a fairly good […]
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Social Engineering + Phishing
Some phishing emails can achieve a hit rate of 45 percent, says Google, while even the worst and most obvious scams can attract clicks from 3 percent of users (Nield, 2014). Considering there are little cost and effort associated with sending out 300,000 emails, at just a 3% hit rate, you can have 9000 victims. […]
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I finally started adding stuff to my github account. https://github.com/biffsocko – you can check out some of my work there. These are in various states and could use some polishing; I’ll get to that soon, because they are now public and I don’t want to embarrass myself.
Continue ReadingGoogle Keep / Evernote
a few years ago I wrote about Evernote. I liked it because it was free, easy to use and it kept lots of information for me in a single place – things like my wireless password, the red wine I liked so much, vacation trip notes (hotel, flights, etc). receipts for purchases I may return […]
Continue ReadingSecurity Onion / Cybersecurity
I’m heading back to school next month to start my second masters – this time in Cybersecurity. I’m stoked about familiarizing myself with a litany of security tools and processes. I have a degree in Computer Science already, but this is a completely different topic in technology. The tools I already have will lend themselves […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash This is crazy – Windows running Linux naively on Windows. SO .. basically running ELF binaries and everything. This is a new day. Check out the demo from the link above This is something I’m really excited about and can’t wait to start using it. When I’ve had to use Windows, I’ve always tried […]
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OpenBSD
Frederic Cambus wrote a blog entry called Why OpenBSD?. It’s spot on, and makes great arguments. All the things he says are true. OpenBSD is a great OS. I’d consider making the switch – particularly if it gained more support.
Continue ReadingUNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use — AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
UNIX/Linux – it’s come a long way check out the latest: UbuntuBSD – Ubuntu Linux running on the FreeBSD kernel. This just came out, but it’s getting a LOT of attention. One of the big draws is that it escapes Systemd
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