Slack is becoming a more common collaboration in the workplace, not to mention it’s pretty much the “gold standard” for various tech-based community chat rooms. Because Slack has a built-in notification system I though that it would be interesting to… Continue Reading
It has become common knowledge (or I at least I hope that it has), that we need to take the time from our overflowing work day to train the end user entrusted to our care about the danger of phishing… Continue Reading
I have a vehicle that has a keypad on the door to unlock it. When the correct five numbers (ranging from 0-9) are entered, the doors unlock. In a perfect world I would be pretty comfortable with this feature given… Continue Reading
Does your company have internal assets exposed to the internet? There is a very good chance that you do. Many companies have exposed some of their internal assets to the world both intentionally and unintentionally. For instance, if you run… Continue Reading
In this digital age data breaches have sadly become and everyday occurrence. Well, technically they have become a multiple time a day occurrence. In fact, by September of 2017 there were over 1000 publicly disclosed data breaches (http://breachlevelindex.com/data-breach-database) alone in… Continue Reading
I’m fairly confident that most of you reading this post are familiar with what WHOIS is, but just in case you are not, it is defined on Wikipedia as follows: “WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that… Continue Reading
Ok, so I kind of jump the gun on this series and went straight into both red team (attacking) and blue team (defenses) without even mentioning why we need wireless security in the first place. Sure, for most of us… Continue Reading
Last week I had the privilege to be a guest on the Defrag This podcast to speak about wireless security which you can listen to here: https://blog.ipswitch.com/wireless-security-protocols-brad-call. During the interview I was asked if there was a replacement to WPA2… Continue Reading
Last month I had the privilege of speaking at Spiceworld 2017 (https://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/), an annual tech conference in Austin, Texas that targets the average IT pro in the SMB space. This was my fifth time as an attendee and second as a… Continue Reading
Below is an article that I wrote and had published in the 2017 summer issue on 2600: The Hackers Quarterly. Since the article was submitted I had changed the name for this project from “Pineapple Pi – creating an automated… Continue Reading