I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to spend October on the Big Island of Hawai’i at a friend’s home while we button up the 6.2 release of Precinct. My wife and I were able to visit the Crater Overlook at Mount Kīlauea this week. Mount Kīlauea is the...
Machine Learning Driven Social Engineering talk will be given at GrrCon on 9/16/2021 at 4:30pm. Abstract Machine learning (ML) is arguably the most potent advancement in technology since atomic fission with similar benefit and risk extremes. The outcome driven nature...
The 2020 Internet Crime Report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been released and can be viewed here: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2020_IC3Report.pdf. I highly recommend all in SECOPS take a moment to grok the content. I’d like to...
Cybersecurity is difficult, even for the most well-funded and security conscious organizations. The amount of knowledge and skill required to be successful is immense. Even with deep pockets and expert personnel, the volume of work required is more than...
Searching for the TLD of the Solarwinds DGA will quickly reveal any hits reported to Precinct. The TLD to search is avsvmcloud.com. Months of incident data can be searched in moments and full, big-data search can run as a job. Note, there have been no reports of...
On Emergency Leave on 9/11 In September of 2001, I had been on active duty in the US Navy for 6 years. I was stationed with the World-Famous Golden Dragons of VFA-192 in Atsugi, Japan, running the night shift of the Integrated Weapons Team. On the morning of September...
