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Our Lab in the Cloud

What? A while back, I posted on this thing that we’ve been doing, trying to help out with teaching teh cybers to high school students. We set up a virtual environment for the students, and I wanted (needed) to take some time to document it. Why? Well, because I’m way (WAY!) behind on documenting our setup, and someone needs to…

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CTF Flag time

  So, here’s my favorite flag from our most recent EnRichMinds CTF, and a clear example of ‘haxors gonna hack.’ Since we cover core linux concepts in some of our labs, we wanted to include some linuxy-type stuff, but fun it up and get the students thinking a bit about how sometimes it’s important to see things in a particular…

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What I learned from the Equifax hack

Full disclosure: I hate Equifax and its ilk for many, many reasons, but my thoughts here will focus on the breach. I also wrote some of this before the congressional testimony and after, so it’s a little disjointed There’s enough blame to go around Since the breach was announced, it seems both everybody, and nobody are to blame. I’ve seen…

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HackItForward

So, here’s this thing I’ve been working on. . . . . . for a while now, actually. And I say I’ve been working on it, but really, I’ve had a lot of help from some awesome people(Josh, Larry, Ron, Jason). What is it, exactly? Well, it’s this thing you see. Well, you will see. Shortly. For those of you…

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WTFn00b!

Why noobhaxor? Well, it’s kinda two-fold. First, I try to keep the mentality of a noob in the world of teh cybers/infosec. Partially because it’s such a huge subject that it’s tough to be an “expert,” and partially because that mentality helps keep me hungry, wanting to learn new things and re-learn old things that I’ve forgotten. So, I’m a…

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Out with the old. . .

Just a link to my old blog on blogspot. I’m putting it here as a reminder of how far I’ve come with regards to the cybers, and also to remind myself that even as a new noob — a n00b(n00b) if you will — I had some pretty good ideas and a decent grasp of some core infosec concepts. But…

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