Tech

Secure your IoT Devices this Holiday Season

New IoT devices are being developed everyday, and with them, new ways for hackers to enter your home. Let’s lock down our IoT network…

Cloud Computing

Cloud Security Management, When Things Break

You will find cloud solutions for just about everything today. You can do everything from hosting your website in the cloud, to your entire…

Security

Quantum computing won’t stop your encrypted communications from being hacked

I recently watched a TED presentation on quantum computing in which the presenter did a great job of explaining the benefits; however, they…

Gaming

The original Xbox was my first hacker project in middle school

I remember playing the original Xbox back in the early 2000s, I played more games back then, unlike today. I still play video games, just…

Blocking Netflix Auto-play Trailers

While sitting at home, working on a new coding project, I wanted to have something playing in the background. While looking for something…

Linux

I like Ubuntu, but I can’t stand GNOME and hate PulseAudio

I’ve been using Ubuntu and Fedora for years — at least 10 years. The two distros I typically use for desktop and server is Ubuntu and…

Blizzard

Dogs first blizzard for 2019

Bellow is a collection of pictures I took, and edited, for the first blizzard the dogs experienced in 2019.

JavaScript

JavaScript made me rethink my queue management, limiting simultaneous async tasks

I was rewriting an application I made in C# which had a queue of tasks to do. When the application processed the queue, it would iterate…

Comics

Rick and Morty comics are hilarious

Linux

X Session Desktop Environment Launch Menu (Python)

I like to run Arch Linux on systems that have a small amount of resources so that I can have a system with a small footprint. I also like…

Windows 10

Loving DXVK on Fedora Linux (Battlefield 4)

I switched off Windows 10 to Fedora Linux for a number of reasons, one of which is my workflow didn’t work well with Windows 10, I play…

DNS

Command and Control via DNS, without being obvious

There’s plenty of ways to make a Command and Control, the whole purpose is to reliably communicate with your zombies in a way others…

Hacking

I have my data exfiltration program stealing files too.

[’0110100’, '0110101’, '0111000’, '0110111’, '0111001’, '0110110’, '0110101’, '0110011’, '0110001’, '0110010’, '0110100’, '0110101’…

Networking

Data exfiltration using valid ICMP packets

I was thinking about how someone could go about doing data exfiltration in an average enterprise with decent security. I’m assuming DNS…

Linux

Linux bricking/breaking UEFI/BIOS is an egg on OEM’s faces too

Apparently Ubuntu was bricking some Lenovo laptops because it was screwing up the BIOS causing things like setting to not be saved when…

Security

I rely on HIPS for my home protection, not anti-virus

I know many people might not agree, and would even see my statement of relying on HIPS and not anti-virus as dangerous information to tell…

Games

Just beat Super Mario Odyssey

Wasn’t a difficult game. None of the boss battles took more than 3 tries, most took less. Even the last battle took 3 times for me to beat…

Cryptocurrency

I’ve made more off cryptocurrency in the short term compared to my other investments

People like to make fun of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum; however, I’ve made more money in a short amount of time…

Plex

I no longer need music streaming services because of Plex

I’ve moved all my music over to my Plex server and I have completely stopped listening to my music streaming service (Play Music). Then I…

Security

I guess I’ll use Google Voice for my two-factor authentication

Seems some online services only provide two-factor authentication using SMS… well, there’s too many stories about that being bypassed…

Technology

Not buying new phones from the carrier at full price anymore

We recently just had Black Friday sales, in which I didn’t go to a physical store to partake, but took advantage of some online sales for…

Short Story

The Adventures of Zack

The following is a version of a story I wrote for my creative writing class some time back, this is an older version before I changed some…

Kodi

Get ready for the Kodi wars?

For all you Kodi users, get ready for a big legal storm that’s going to heat up. About a year ago the UK government started their fight…

Security

If you think the KRAK attack on Android, or any device, isn’t a big deal you’re full of crap

Unfortunately there’s a lot of android devices out there that won’t be getting the update for the WPA2 vulnerability labeled KRAK. This…

Web Development

I love writing back-end and client JS code, but I hate the front end HTLM/CSS

I’ve written lots of JavaScript, Python and even some Java code to run web applications. Well, let me clarify, a little over ~20k lines of…