Changes in net worth of Congress Critters

Brought to you by Open Secrets. Just because I like to read the site. For the first time in history, the majority of America’s elected officials in Washington, D.C. are millionaires. At the same time, 50 percent of Americans cannot afford to spend $5,000 in an emergency.  For many people that number is even lower. Read More …

Current members of the US Congress by wealth

What is the average net worth by state? This is always a fun page to check in once and awhile on, to see what the congress critters are up to.  Currently it is based on 2018-2019 numbers, but even then I though Nancy Pelosi would be much higher up the list.  Also surprised that Rick Read More …

How to change user agent in nmap

NMAP How to change user agent You can find the default value in /usr/share/nmap/nselib/http.lua (At the beginning of the file, a couple of lines after the comments) local USER_AGENT = stdnse.get_script_args(‘http.useragent’) or “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Nmap Scripting Engine; http://nmap.org/book/nse.html)” You can change the value with this line local USER_AGENT = stdnse.get_script_args(‘http.useragent’) or “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Read More …

Backyard Chickens – Video List

Backyard Chickens – Day 112 Video List Baby Chickens Chilling – Irakere Babalú Ayé Dual Baby Chickens Baby Chickens La Oreja de Van Gogh Taylor and Gaga walk by camera Bea feeds Chicks, Nuria frees them LCD Soundsystem  

AuKill EDR Post

Summary AuKill is a malicious software, often used by ransomware groups, designed to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) security solutions on a system, essentially allowing attackers to bypass security measures before deploying ransomware by terminating EDR processes using a vulnerable, outdated driver like the Process Explorer driver from Sysinternals; effectively “killing” the EDR functionality.  Key points about Read More …

Notes on “Paved Road”

Lessons from Securing Internal Applications WebappSec Link Building a Security Platform Engineering Team “”” I’m a big fan of building security into existing processes, a term coined as “secure paved roads” by Jason Chan, Ex-Netflix CISO. The idea behind this is that security should mostly be invisible. The average employee should simply not have to Read More …