Author Archives: D-Caf

About D-Caf

I'm a computer geek, what more is there to say?

In Need of Updates

I’m still around, doing tech things, but been busy with work and family. Posting this quick update as I’ve made a theme change (my old theme was no longer supported and breaking) but it’s not to my liking yet. I’ll … Continue reading

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Blue Teams Next Tool: Social Engineering (Psychology and Sociology at Work) – References

This weekend I had the privilege to present at bsidesdc.org on the subject of Social Engineering techniques for use in driving positive security outcomes.  At the end of the presentation there were several great questions and a slide of reference … Continue reading

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Taking a BIG leap with two speaking engagements.

I have two speaking engagements lined up over the next two months that I’m very excited about (with a drop of stage fright).  Both are on topics I am passionate about and feel need a lot more thought in the … Continue reading

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Building a Pen Testing Laptop from Scratch ( WCTF / CTF Laptop ) part 2

With all the hardware working from Part 1, it’s time to move onto getting all the software in place.  There were plenty of references to work from, and based the on the recommendations of Wireless Village to bring Pentoo Linux … Continue reading

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Building a Pen Testing Laptop from Scratch ( WCTF / CTF Laptop ) part 1

Last month for Shmoocon I decided I wanted to expand my skills a bit and take a shot at something I hadn’t really done much of in my InfoSec career lately, not since way back in the WEP and Linux … Continue reading

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Using a ReadyNAS with OS6 as a central syslog server

In the process of building out my network intelligence system I need to have a central location to collect system and event logs on my network.  Since my ReadyNAS has Linux under the hood I figured what better place (since … Continue reading

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Updated Network

I’ve been very busy updating my home network infrastructure lately.  I wanted to improve the zone separation, while at the same time providing a reasonably secure connection between my resources at home and my resources on the net. Some of … Continue reading

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Hardware Hacking: Solar Panels and Battery Chargers

I wanted to find a way to easily charge a couple of AA and AAA batteries from a solar panel for camping, hiking, and geo-caching.  Thought it would be nice to charge via the sun vs carrying around extra batteries … Continue reading

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Why RAID 5 is NOT dead yet

So, recently I started looking to see if there was any nice hardware around to provide a solid enclosure for a Freenas based home made NAS storage system.  In looking into this, I ran across this page: Freenas Raid Overview.  … Continue reading

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IPv6 and WordPress, not for the faint of hearts.

Unfortunately it appears that getting WordPress going in IPv6 is a constant undertaking.  Primary causes? WordPress domains don’t support IPv6.  And my DNS provider doesn’t fully support IPv6 at their DNS server (I can add AAAA records, but you can’t … Continue reading

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