7 Minute Security

This episode covers a few HIPAA tidbits I picked up while preparing for - and executing - a HIPAA security assessment.

This episode isn't about infosec exactly, but it talks about how using public resources like LinkedIn, Twitter and blogs to boost your "brand" (though I hate that word) and help you get more connected to the infosec community, job leads and more!

Way back in episode #93, I talked about things you can do to secure your life (mortgage review, adequate insurance, estate planning, investments, etc.). This episode continues that train of thought and covers: getting the right amount of life insurance, getting the right home/auto coverage, as well as estate planning.

This episode is 90% a rant about how annoying carry-on luggage and air travel can be, and a 10% sprinkling of security sauce mixed in. Hence: sprinkles.

This episode talks about my experience in doing a "redo" security assessment, during which I struggled with the following questions: what's the best way to efficiently correct the erroneous information and make the customer happy without asking ALL the original questions over again? Especially when I have little to no time to prepare for the "redo" interview?

Preview76 wordsThis episode is about a documentary called An Apology to Elephants. It's all about the treatment (or mistreatment) of elephants, and the main message of the movie is, "Please don't go to the circus when it's in town, because you're supporting elephant abuse." Even if that message was a little heavy handed, I certainly will pass on tickets next time a circus act comes through town. You can subscribe to the 7 Minute Security podcast here.

Part 2 concludes my journey in moving 7ms.us from Tumblr to a Digital Ocean droplet running Ghost. Here are the key resources mentioned during the podcast: How to run multiple Ghost blogs on one DI VPS. The key takeaway here was that I had to upgrade to the $10 droplet (I did a "flexible" resize to add more proc/memory) and then the second instance of Ghost installed fine. Turning on CloudFlare SSL was easy. I chose flexible SSL since I wasn't using a "real" cert. I also wrote a rule to force HTTPs for all connections. And, just for grins, I turned on DNSSEC. Because...why not? :-) I picked a strong root password for my DI droplet, but I still don't like the idea of IPs banging on that connection all day and night. I followed this article on installing Fail2Ban to prevent my SSH login from being abused. There are a few IPs that I want to perma-ban, so I'm going to look throughthis article and this one which looks a tad easier. You can subscribe to the 7 Minute Security podcast here.

Announcing the 7MS PURGE! I've got a back log of episodes banked and I want to get caught up for the new year. So I'm going to release one (or maybe more) episodes per day between now and 2016. Plus (spoiler alerts!) in 2016 we're moving to a Monday/Wednesday/Friday release schedule. Yep, 7MS three times a week - thanks for the idea, mom! Subscribe to 7MS on iTunes here.

In this episode I talk about my adventures in moving my brianjohnson.tv Tumblr content over to a Digital Ocean hosted droplet running Ghost. I think you'll want to check this episode out, because in part 2 I talk about the challenges I faced in hosting multiple Ghost instances on one DI droplet. I will also be talking about how to enable CloudFlare SSL (for free!) as well as enabling Fail2Ban to keep annoying people/IPs from brute forcing your SSH root account!

This episode discusses an important and rhetorical (to me) infosec question: Should phishing campaigns be "fair?"

Today I talk about one of the most moving films I've ever seen - a documentary called Alive Inside.

In this episode I complain about getting stuck in NY for two days, and also how to efficiently scan for vulnerabilities when your time is crunched.

We're going off-topic today and talking about the new(ish) movie about Brian Wilson's life called Love and Mercy.

Part 3 on my series about PCI pentesting. Yeah. That.

Yep, this episode is EXACTLY what the title implies.

This episode is about one of my favorite enumeration tools called Sparta - it's built right into Kali 2. And maybe it was in Kali 1 and I totally missed it. But whatevs. I'm happy to have found it now!

The thrilling (?) conclusion of my experience hacking WPA Enterprise.

This episode is about my experience hacking WPA enterprise. Huge mega tiger uppercut thanks to this site for giving me the fixes I needed to get this working on Kali2! https://warroom.securestate.com/index.php/evil-twin-attack-using-hostapd-wpe/

Movie reviews of It Follows and Backcountry.

Here's part 2 (of probably several to come) about my experience with PWAPT (Practical Webapp Pentesting) training last week!