16 April 2019

Spammers

I often ignore emails if they don’t seem relevant to me, but I received this email, and several follow-up emails that I said to myself “hey, I’ll read this and figure out what they wanted.” So, let’s look at this together! First thing I noticed was that the article he has here is similar to…

11 April 2018

Podcast: Professionally Evil Perspective with Amanda Berlin

Nathan and I got to interview Amanda and talk about her book, Defensive Security Handbook, more details here: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920051671.do   Podcast here: http://secureideas.libsyn.com/march-8th-interview-with-amanda-berlin

11 April 2018

Podcast: Kateo takes on new challenges in security research

I was fortune enough to be a guest on RallySecurity podcast! Check out their website: https://rallysecurity.com/

19 February 2018

Things my mom says

Here are some of the things my mom taught me as a child, hopefully they can help you, too. You have time for what you make time for. This is for all the times I said “but MOM, I don’t have TIME to do _____” as a kid. This is a constant reminder whenever I’m…

25 January 2018

CANAL Interview Process

When I was a manager at the network research lab (CANAL: Central’s Advanced Network Architecture Laboratory), I had the opportunity to be creative and perform interviews in order to hire new students for the lab. This process that we created stole a few ideas from other schools and mostly was just a lot of fun…

22 January 2018

How I got into InfoSec

I WAS BORN HERE. Okay, no really, everyone has a different story for how they got into this field, here’s mine. If you don’t want to hear my kid stories, skip on down to Career 😉 Nostalgic I’m going to go way back in time, to when I was roughly 6 years old. My oldest…

22 January 2018

Podcast: What is Converge and BSides Detroit?

I had another opportunity on Tim DeBlock’s Exploring Information Security podcast, this time to talk about Converge: http://www.timothydeblock.com/eis/122

22 January 2018

Podcast: Introduction to RTLAMR w/ Doug (Bemasher)

I had the opportunity to host the Professionally Evil podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/introduction-to-rtlamr-with-doug-bemasher/id607209968?i=1000393598051&mt=2

22 January 2018

Podcast: How to set up a wifi pineapple?

Tim DeBlock’s Exploring Information Security podcast: http://www.timothydeblock.com/eis/106

19 January 2018

2017 Year End Review – #misec Jackson, January 9th

This is by far the strangest way to give a presentation. Originally, I was going to be there in person, but I had to be in Canada for work during the presentation. So before I left, Kyle and I recorded this. It’s a slightly different style and a completely new way of delivering content. Here’s…

22 March 2017

My Experience With Wifi Pineapple

I had completed all of my projects at the end of December so, coming back to work I wanted to do something fun until I was bogged down with boring stuff again. My coworker handed me a Pineapple Tetra and said “go have fun.” which is exactly what I wanted to hear. My goal was to connect…

16 April 2016

InfoSecs in the City – Starting a Successful CitySec Meetup

From the original post over at irongeek.com: Johnny Xmas, Fletcher Munson, Chris Carlis, Kate Vajda @j0hnnyxm4s @Mr_FMunson @chriscarlis @vajkat BSides Nashville 2016 http://bsidesnash.org Founding members of Chicago’s (in)famous “BurbSec” meet-ups have assembled a POWERHOUSE panel of influential members of the social InfoSec scene from around the midwest! members from Chicago, Milwaukee and all over Michigan…