I'm lucky enough to be attending the O'Reilly Security Conference in New York City this week. I have other posts coming about the sessions I attended. Something that I enjoy when attending a tech conference it to take note of the hardware that the other attendees use. Here is a...
I recently repaved my Surface Pro 3. As with all Windows systems, it started to display symptoms of "Windows Rot". I purchased the system new and applied all the OS updates (Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Anniversary Update) to it without reformatting it. The system held up remarkably well...
I had reason to iterate over all the web sites that we host to determine which domains we host the DNS for. I did some Googling and found a PowerShell script that I heavily modified to come up with the following: $name = "heat-assault.com" try{ $dns = Resolve-DnsName -Name $name...
I had reason to need a list of all the sites that were running on an IIS server and were "on". After much Googling, I was able to piece together the simple script below: Import-Module webadministration Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites | where {$_.State -eq 'Started'} | select Name This worked so well...
I've been running a VM of Kali Linux 2.0 on my local machine for about an year now. It's been a great learning experience and I've used a lot of the programs in Kali to assist in expanding my security knowledge. I noticed that the updates were failing in my...
It seems pretty self explanatory why SSL certificates need to expire. Everyone knows that they expire. Why is it SOOOO hard to remember to renew your certificate? We've been bit twice in the past three months with certificates that have expired on us. We do the mad scramble to get...
As I continue to play more and more with my Raspberry Pi 3, I was having issues setting a static IP AND being able to surf from the Raspberry Pi after. I decided to leave the Raspberry Pi with DHCP enabled and continue my tinkering. This worked well when I...
I spent some time this weekend writing a Python script to check the SSL expiration dates for all our sites. We've been caught flat footed too many times having to run around and renew certificates that have expired. I figured this was something that should be automated. I'll post the...