MITRE ATT&CK has become very popular in cybersecurity over the the last few years, with most vendors rushing to support MITRE’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and ATT&CK Navigator. MITRE even has the MITRE ATT&CK Defender (MAD) certification to learn in-depth knowledge of the framework. In fact I am an active holder of the MAD certification. With all of the…
It’s a constant across the Internet: if it’s accessible, it will be attacked. And of course Rails is a pretty well known technology at this point so bots are very easily able to create accounts. I ran into this with Inexpire but I didn’t want users to have to confirm their email and go through that kind of friction during…
To-do list… with prerequisites. Way back in 2021, I started a project I called Inexpire. This was meant to keep track of food and supplies we had stocked up on during the pandemic, to make sure things did not expire before we had a chance to use them. The app took on many iterations since then, including a brief foray…
I could say “rock music is dead” and a bunch of fans will crawl out of the woodwork to list all their favorite rock bands. And I’m sure they’re all good! But that doesn’t fix the problem. If I point out that young men are wildly underrepresented in YA fiction, people will pop out of a hole in the ground…
I ran a half marathon! On October 21 2023, I reached my goal of 100lbs lost. The very next day, October 22nd, I started running. I had run a 5K race when I reached 50lbs lost, so my initial goal was to run a 10K to celebrate 100lbs. But it was a long winter and my ambitions are boundless 😉…
Summary: It’s probably not worth it unless you have a $600+ smart trainer. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve picked up running in the last 6 months. It’s been winter, which necessitates time on the treadmill. And I’m expecting this summer to be record heat which will push me to the treadmill even more. I also cross-train on an indoor bike. I…
You’re looking at the race calendar and you see two 5Ks you really want to run… but they’re on the same day! And there’s a 10K that sounds really interesting the next day! How do you decide which to run? The Problem I actually have this as a real scenario I am facing. I’m looking at two different 5Ks that…
After I lost 50lbs in 2021, I ran a 5k to celebrate my fitness. Now that I’ve lost 100lbs, I planned to run a 10k. But I was enjoying running, so I’ve set my sights on a bigger goal: Amway Riverbank Run (RBR) 25K. Slightly longer than a half marathon. Here’s what I’m doing to prepare for my 2024 running…
YUUUUP! I’ve always been overweight, I’ve tried half-heartedly to fix this many times over the years but I never really had much success. But in late 2020/early 2021 I decided that was time to change. For good. So I bought a Peloton and started hitting the pedals. 45 minutes 3x per week, with another 90 minute ride on Saturday. I…
Some background information, feel free to skip: I’m relatively new to pentesting. I’ve spent my whole career on the blue side, mostly with SIEM technologies. But that’s boring! I want to HACK! So my employer paid for some training and set a goal to finish HackTheBox Bug Bounty course and all TryHackMe modules this year. So I’m documenting my progress,…