Jarrod

/dev/null - ramblings of an infosec professional

This is a farewell blog post. Although not the end of my blogging (I am not so easy to shut up as anyone that knows me will tell you) although it will be the end of this blog.I'm at a point of realigning and reprioritising my work and lifestyle choices ... Read More

This review comes almost a year late for a mate of mine extracted a blood oath to write a review on this book. My apologies for taking so long.  - J.--"Grey Hat Python", written by Justin Seitz, a Senior Security Researcher at Immunity Inc, is a book which takes you ... Read More

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” - Arnold SchwarzeneggerI recently returned from Ruxcon and realised how much I enjoyed the conference and how much I enjoyed making ... Read More

Hi allI've been severely negligent with my blogging lately. And this post is not one of my more detailed ones. I've had an exceptionally busy few months - both outside of work and at work. At some points, you just gotta keep your head down, bum up and only surface ... Read More

 "Everybody's a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll live its life believing it's stupid." - Albert EinsteinI think I held off from writing this post for a long time. But it seems to keep cropping up this discussion wherever I go, ... Read More

I've been largely pre-occupied with other work as of late (read: university assignments), but not wanting to discuss AusCERT I did however want to touch on the VUPEN vs Google debate.For anyone that had missed this, simply put, a French security research firm claimed (displaying video footage) that they had ... Read More

Rumors of information security evolving as a process and an industry is really a mixed bag. On one hand, I’ve seen first hand the benefits of improved governance. This helps to ensure people can’t make adhoc changes to production environments and should those environments change outside of authorised change windows ... Read More

I recently read two articles that made me consider is the goals of cyber security shifting - or perhaps more precisely, could it shift? The articles:China Advances Cyber Warfare as Primary StrategyGlass Dragon: China's Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful DefenseThere's a heap relating to China that are worth reading on Threatpost - ... Read More

Lately the threat posed by APT has gained a lot of attention. As highlighted by my April Fool's Day post, there was the RSA incident, the HBGary incident (which was more "Persistent" than anything else), the Australian PM's laptop getting owned (which barely got more than a day's press), and ... Read More

A number of events in past months have forced me to reconsider my position on a number of issues.Foremost in my mind:The Vodafone scandal in Australia, the Australian Prime Minister’s Laptop being hacked, Office of National Assessment’s of Govt security (and SQL injection being described as “non-major”), RSA being owned, ... Read More