jgamblin

I wrote Bad Actors this weekend to automatically generate a list of known bad IP addresses.  My plan is to use it to do data mining with against my ELK stack but It might also be handy for firewall and IPS rules or any other use you could come up with. 

I had a friend recently tell me about how he was using a tool called rPlay to airplay his apple devices through his raspberry pi.  As a guy who is always looking to save $67 I decided to give it a try. After configuring it I couldn’t get it to work and after some investigation I found an … Read more

How Do You Handle Challenges? We have all been asked that question during a job interview and went on to talk lie about how much we love new challenges and how well equipped we are to handle them.  Most people hate challenges.  We strive for easy, stable and guaranteed results.  Challenges are hard, unpredictable and always … Read more

I had the chance this week to speak at the 44CON Cyber Security conference on communication skills.  One of the take aways from my talk is that security professionals should always think CISSP when they are communicating.   Not this CISSP (which is great) but they should think this CISSP when the communicate:  Clear The single biggest problem … Read more

I had lunch with a mentor last week and he closed lunch with this thought and it has been stuck in my head ever since:  There are two choices you are constantly making in your life, you either change things or accept them.  We make that choice hundreds of times a day and most of … Read more