Not that long ago it was simple enough to spin up a system with a CD or USB load of DBAN or some other utility to perform a data wipe on a system. With the increasing prevalence of Solid State media these methods have needed to change.
It was recently one of those days that odd network “chop” caused me to take a look at various systems in the environment to track down the possible culprits. On checking various logs I noticed a lot of Windows Application Event log errors coming through about different “beats” agents (used Read more…
UPDATE: Based on the latest information, Google will be making changes to this function in the next release of Chrome per the article found on Bleeping Computer. I noticed something different, and slightly concerning, recently with my Chrome browser activities. The person icon in the upper right looked a little Read more…
There are so many ways to slice, dice, parse, and of course search through files in Linux. This is but one of those ways. What makes this method fancy is that it we go from finding and printing contents of all the files found to listing the columns related to Read more…
UPDATED: March 23rd, 2020 Anyone who’s used VMware at a desktop level for a while has likely run into the need to share a file from the guest operating system back to the host operating system. This post will cover options for Debian derivatives which include Ubuntu. Make sure you have Read more…
A quick preemptive thank you for those that attended my talk on “Practical Application of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework” for SecureWorld Charlotte 2017. As mentioned in the presentation I’ve put together a modified version of a basic CSF worksheet that has expanded capabilities intended to help out the CSF practitioner Read more…
Anyone looking at log management for various reasons has probably heard the name ELK thrown around whenever the conversation turns to open source solutions. This stack is composed of three different tools, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana which come together to form a pretty good tool for digging through various logs. Read more…