networking

Workshop - Web Developer Quiz Night

Attacking a set of carefully curated questions around info-sec, white hat, black hat, attack and defense.

Workshop - Holistic Info-Sec for Computer Science Students

This time for the students of University of Canterbury. An exploration into an insightful set of steps he has learned, from an architectural, engineering and penetration testing perspective. Based on the content of volume 0 & 1 of Kim’s new book “Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers”. This time held at the University of Canterbury.

Workshop - Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers

Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York City. An exploration into an insightful set of steps he has learned, from an architectural, engineering and penetration testing perspective. Based on the content of volume 0 & 1 of Kim’s new book “Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers”.

Workshop - Tools, Password Profiling, Brute Forcing

Kim will take ISIG through the [collection of tools](https://f0.holisticinfosecforwebdevelopers.com/chap05.html#tooling-setup) added and configured on his penetration testing machine used throughout his book series ([Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers](https://www.holisticinfosecforwebdevelopers.com)). Kim will then profile a well known celebrities password, creating a short-list, then (on-line) brute force their login. Come along, it’ll be fun.

Talk - Password Profiling, Brute Forcing

Kim talks with his fellow Toastmasters about profiling peoples passwords and then brute forcing web applications with the shortlist of guessed passwords..

TL-WN722N on Kali VM on Linux Host

Redirects to legacy blog post. The following is the process I found to set-up the pass-through of the very common USB TP-LINK TL-WN722N Wifi adapter (which is known to work well with Linux) to a Virtual Host Kali Linux 1.1.0 (same process for 2.0) guest, by-passing the Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) Host.

Keeping Your NodeJS Web App Running on Production Linux

Redirects to legacy blog post. All the following offerings that I’ve evaluated target different scenarios. I’ve listed the pros and cons for each of them and where I think they fit into a potential solution to monitor your web applications (I’m leaning toward NodeJS) and make sure they keep running.

Evaluation of Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS)

Redirects to legacy blog post. The best time to install a HIDS is on a fresh install before you open the host up to the internet or even your LAN if it’s corporate. Of course if you don’t have that luxury, there are a bunch of tools that can help you determine if you’re already owned. Be sure to run one or more over your target system before your HIDS bench-marks it.

Web Server Log Management

Redirects to legacy blog post. As part of the ongoing work around preparing a Debian web server to host applications accessible from the WWW I performed some research, analysis, made decisions along the way and implemented a first stage logging strategy. I’ve done similar set-ups many times before, but thought it worth sharing my experience for all to learn something from it and/or provide input, recommendations, corrections to the process so we all get to improve.

Keeping Your Linux Server/s In Time With Your Router

Redirects to legacy blog post. With this set-up, we’ve got one-to-many Linux servers in a network that all want to be synced with the same up-stream Network Time Protocol (NTP) server/s that your router (or what ever server you choose to be your NTP authority) uses.