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honeypot

Playing with honeypots: part 4

Looking at a different attack on the honeypot I investigate an attempt to deploy a crypto currency miner.

work

Releasing people from their old roles

When changing roles in the same organisation you sometimes end up still doing your old job for a while.

honeypot

Playing with honeypots: part 3

Having built a honeypot and published it to the Internet, it's time to see what the attackers tried to do.

honeypot

Playing with honeypots: part 2

I build my honeypot in Microsoft's Azure cloud using open source software.

honeypot

Playing with honeypots: part 1

Let's look at what honeypots are, and why we might use them.

cyber security

Receiving a security disclosure for an old subdomain

After receiving a security disclosure from a security researcher I knew I needed to investigate.

review

Review: Flexispot E6 sit/stand desk

I'd heard standing desks could be much better for my body, so decided to buy one.

coronavirus

Over a year of working from home

After over a year of working from home, how have I got on?

fountain pen

Review: Gazing Far tmX fountain pen

In a departure from my normal tech blogging I'm reviewing my latest fountain pen acquisition - a Gazing Far tmX in rosewood. I didn't have a wooden pen in my collection, nor a pocket pen, so this was a way to kill two birds with one stone :) . Apologies in advance

elementary OS

Switching to elementary OS - part two - applications

After installing elementary OS I wanted to spend some time getting to know some of its native applications.

elementary OS

Switching to elementary OS - part one

I decided to try out elementary OS.

wargaming

Wargaming: running incident response plan tests - part 3

Part two finished with our defenders heading in the right direction to find the simulated infection. They'll have used a combination of tools in order to get this far, likely including firewall and network logs. As a reminder, for this exercise there was a simulation running that reached out to

wargaming

Wargaming: running incident response plan tests - part 2

The time has come to run your wargame, let's look at what happens on the day itself.

wargaming

Wargaming: running incident response plan tests - part 1

Cyber exercising is important for checking how a team responds to an incident.

home automation

Making a smart doorbell - part two

Having built my proof of concept smart doorbell I move the parts inside the enclosure, and add an automation.

home automation

Making a smart doorbell - part one

As regular readers will know, I'm getting more interested in home automation and have had Home Assistant running in the house for a while (it's just been doing very little). Unfortunately, my plan to use a humidity sensor to check for leaks came to nothing[1] but now I've got