I recently had my barn freezer go out. While it’s always inconvenient, I had just bought half of a cow, which is quite costly. A good majority of the meat had gone bad, and we didn’t know it for a day or so. To ensure this didn’t happen again, I tried to see if I could use my nerd …

Every year or two, my GnuPG keys expire on KeyBase and in various key servers. Every time, I forget the process, and have to re-learn it. This post serves as a reminder to myself, or anyone else trying to do the same thing. It’s trivially easy, and there are GUI applications which can do it …

Last year during Black Friday, I bought a Cricut Explore Air 2 to make custom stickers, tshirts, and what not. Due to the fact that I like 3D printing and other CNC devices, it seemed right up my alley. Being the security enthusiast that I am, I couldn’t help but look at their site as it was …

SSLScan is a tool that I often use when validating SSL findings on penetration tests. I had recently seen a new version come out, with color highlighting and more fanciness, but wanted it for OSX. When I tried to compile it, I noticed that it did not support SSLv2, which is something I often …

Recently, I on a Google Hangout with a coworker and saw him using the Burp Suite. I noticed that he opened a text file containing the command to run burp with extra memory, so he could remember the shell command easily. I personally just ran the burp jar file by double-clicking the jar file. The …

A week or so ago, I read the news of a new backdoor on several devices, including those made by Belkin, Cisco, NetGear, Linksys, and several others. A list of what seems to be affected devices can be found here. Eloi Vanderbeken, who posted his findings on GitHub made the original discovery. He also …