In my second job out of college, my boss' boss would often say, "Wherever you go there's always a problem and the problem is always the people." I wondered to myself, "Yeah, but which people?"In my previous post in this series, I recounted how reading Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In: Women, ... Read More

Small family farming is a labor intensive way to go broke. When I was young I spent some weeks each summer with my grandparents. As farmers and cattle ranchers, my grandparents scratched out an existence. My grandpa was up before dawn feeding cattle and out working fields of corn, milo, sorghum, soybeans, ... Read More

It's been a rough day. About 18 months ago a friend of mine from high school posted a Go FundMe on Facebook for a mutual friend who was battling cancer. This mutual friend was someone I'd been very close to in elementary and middle school. As happens, we remained friends, but ... Read More

A relatively recent post showed how Metasploit's Meterpreter module made some noise on endpoints when the migrate command was used to move the agent code into a legitimate process, spoolsv.exe in our example.One of the things we saw in that post was that when the agent migrates, it uses commonplace ... Read More

In my previous post on detecting and investigating Meterpreter's Migrate functionality, I went down a rabbit hole on the initial PowerShell attack spawned by and Excel macro. In that payload was a bit of shellcode and I mentioned that I'd like to return to it at some point in the ... Read More

I mentioned on LinkedIn yesterday that I'm looking for a new role. For recruiters and interested parties, I thought I should provide some background about what I've been doing for the last four and a half years.I left Microsoft back in September of 2015. It was a difficult decision. I ... Read More

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I was recently reminded of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper remark:The most damaging phrase in the language is “We’ve always done it this way!”When I was in high school I was a lifeguard at a waterpark with a wave pool, water slides, a cave with a waterfall, a pair of monorails ... Read More

Over the last few months significant changes have been pushed to Kansa's next branch. Those changes were very recently pushed to master, then packaged into the Stafford release. I mentioned in the release notes I would have a longer post here about the changes. There have been more than 130 commits ... Read More

My last post here, XOR'd play: Normalized Hamming Distance, was a lengthy bit about the reliability of Normalized Hamming Distance to determine the size of a repeating XOR key that was used to encrypt a string of text and was based on my experience working on the Matasano Crypto Challenges at ... Read More