After last year’s success with Hack My Derby, a hacked up derby had that we created for Derby Con 5, I decided to create a sequel for Derby Con 6! Much of the build is similar, so I’ll cover the differences. If you want a more complete write-up on this project from start to finish,…
How to break 40 years of resiliency.
So back in the late 60’s, “The Internet” was in its infancy, several groups of technologists at various institutions were running a network called ARPANET. ARPANET eventually evolved into what we call the internet today. Systems connected to ARPANET, and todays Internet are each assigned an IP address, which is how other systems on the…
Lets Encrypt, Nginx proxy, CentOS 7
I’ve been interested in the Lets Encrypt project since I first heard about it, quite some time ago. It’s a cool idea, automatic free certificates for everyone! I’ve been using startcom for the majority of my personal sites, minus swbcrawler, which I purchased a cheap commercial cert for. A few months back, Lets Encrypt finally…
Hack My Derby
In 2011, Dave Kennedy and his crew started a little conference, called DerbyCon. Named for its location, in Louisville, KY, it’s an awesome infosec con, with a great atmosphere. Because of the name, derby hats have been a staple. Much of the staff wear them, and many attendees also wear them. Many of them are…
NFC Ring
Yesterday, I received my long-awaited NFC ring in the mail. And it is awesome. Well, as awesome as you can expect it to be anyway. I had backed them on kickstarter about a year ago, and now that they’ve worked through their issues, rings are coming to those who backed. Its neat technology, and it’s…
Awesome times.
So, years ago, I was working Technical Support for an ISP. This was late 90’s, early 2000’s. I was just out of business school, with a fresh Associates degree in PC Networking under my belt. At the time, computing was at what I perceived as sort of a standstill. Yea, things were progressing, but it…
Puppet 2.6, filebucket permissions.
Just a little snippet. I’m working with puppet, and foreman. Im working through the Pro Puppet book from APress. In the first section, they have me create a sudo module, which will pull /etc/sudoers from a puppet file bucket, and put it in place on the agent. I was running into the following error. [root@kstest…
NEED HELP FINDING A LOST HIKER – California, Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The brother of a high-school friend of my wife’s, is missing. He was on a camping/hiking trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the Mammoth Lake area. He was separated from his friends when his car broke down, and never met back up with them as planned. The hunch is that he went on a…
Sysadmin Appreciation Day
Fifteen years ago, I knew a teenager, who spent his evenings hacking away on his Gateway 2000 486, and his days trying to work his way around the security put in place to prevent him and his fellow students from accessing data they shouldn’t. Never malicious, just curious, and thirsty for control of something. That…
Freeing a Nook Tablet from the bonds of slavery.
So, my wife has a Nook Tablet. I bought it for her a little under 2 years ago as a gift, and she loves it. She’s a big reader, and this thing has done a great job of feeding her addiction. Over the time she’s owned it, she’s asked me to install certain apps on…
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