Silicon Shecky

Infosec Practitioner

  • About
  • Categories
    • General
    • Computers
    • Software
    • Rants
    • Security
    • Internet/Music
    • Reviews
    • Microsoft
    • Hardware
    • Mobile Computing
  • Links
    • Infosec
      • Burbsec
      • Infosec Exchange Mastodon
      • Hacks4Pancakes Blog
      • Krebs On Security
      • Bleeping Computer
  • Archives

Connect

  • Bluesky
  • LinkedIn
  • Mastodon
  • RSS
  • Twitter

[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2025 ·Sixteen Nine Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress

Archives

Pages:

  • Archives
  • About

Categories:

  • Android
  • Apple
  • Computers
  • E-mail
  • General
  • Google
  • Hardware
  • Internet/Music
  • Jobs
  • Linux
  • Microsoft
  • Mobile Computing
  • Ramblings
  • Rants
  • Reviews
  • Scripts
  • Security
  • Social Networking
  • Software
  • Tablet/E-readers

Authors:

  • Michael Kavka (742)

Monthly:

  • January 2025
  • August 2023
  • August 2022
  • March 2022
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • June 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • February 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • January 2015
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • July 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • November 2012
  • September 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009

Recent Posts:

  • New Year, New Post, from the start
  • First Defcon – The results
  • Defender, KQL and Lockbit
  • Do well, not be “popular”
  • Defense Layers: A Case Study
  • Device vs. User
  • Ransomware, Are You Ready?
  • Gatekeeping and Treatment of Others
  • Are you sure it is the execs?
  • The one about banking passwords…
  • Holiday CTF review
  • Solarwinds Sunburst: Haven’t We Been Here Before?
  • Solarwinds Sunbursts a Supernova: Early lessons learned
  • The One About Chained Exploits and Pentest Results
  • Passing the Cert – SANS Notes and thoughts
  • Zoom Zoom or WTF people?
  • Random Stream of Thoughts
  • Nessus and Python Scripts
  • Year End Musings
  • EcoSystems, or Why the Security Tools Industry is making us less secure
  • Pain Point: The Announcement of the End of Derbycon
  • Welcome to 2019, please hold on
  • 2018 A Look Back
  • Reputation, what is it good for? (Absolutely Nothing)
  • Just another week
  • DCSync, where the heck did that come from?
  • Post Derbycon Wrapup
  • Ducks in a Row
  • Quiet week
  • A role for every tool
  • Perfect Imperfection
  • ALPC Bug and Carbon Black Defense
  • R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
  • CarbonBlack doesn’t do it again
  • Anatomy of a Rejected CFP
  • The Secret Sauce Does Not Help Security
  • Quick Hits
  • Infosec SHOULD be an entry level job
  • Over Complicated?
  • Noise, Noise oh the Noise
  • Cyclical
  • Lack of Control?
  • Simple Post
  • Change is the only constant
  • Crying Wolf
  • Thotcon 0x9
  • Lack of Vision
  • Tuning up the intel
  • Wild Thing – A Post Cyphercon post
  • BREACHES? BREACHES? Learn the term please!
  • Privacy vs. Security
  • Incident or Typo?
  • What is Threat Hunting?
  • The case for proper information or WHY CAN’T I UPGRADE THIS?
  • Random Thoughts Again
  • Not Much Really
  • Line in the… silicon
  • Sportsball and Infosec
  • Catfight!
  • It is CFP season… So what
  • Not Much This Time
  • Time for a rant
  • We are headed for a Spectre of a Meltdown
  • Frost Piss.. er First Post of 2018
  • As we move to a new year
  • For those that came in late…
  • Net Neutrality Neutered?
  • Contradictions
  • Another bug disclosed
  • Another week down
  • Forward and Back
  • Same old thing
  • Attribution, why it can sink us
  • 2.5 weeks out
  • This week and some thoughts on Kaspersky
  • Time changes things
  • Random Stuff for the week ending 9-30-17
  • First time for everything
  • Practice What You Preach
  • In our own sandbox
  • K.I.S.S. up, or we lose
  • Have we lost sight of the future?
  • Get Over It…
  • The forest or the trees?
  • Securing the Future, Securing the Community
  • Thotcon 0x7 thoughts
  • The Get Involved Catch 22
  • Cyphercon, a Con of Firsts
  • A Woman’s Place Is Working At Her Keyboard…
  • Superstars and Giving Back to the Community
  • Infosec: You are probably already doing it
  • Security Slimebags or How to be forced to pay for security
  • CISA and other Political gambits
  • Thotcon 0x6 has come and gone
  • Android Security: Google or Carriers issue?
  • Can Infosec get ahead of the Blackhats?
  • Meanwhile, away from Las Vegas
  • Security – Open Source vs. Closed: It’s a matter of eyes
  • Why new PCs? These are good enough!
  • We’ve been Hacked! A Client’s issue

RSS Taggart Institute Intel Feed

  • University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info December 18, 2025 Bill Toulas
  • Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks December 18, 2025 Sergiu Gatlan
  • Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin December 18, 2025 Thomas Claburn
  • I am not a robot: ClickFix used to deploy StealC and Qilin December 18, 2025 Mindi McDowell
  • Adios 2025, you won’t be missed December 18, 2025 Joe Marshall
  • Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins December 18, 2025 Jessica Lyons
  • Over $3.4 billion in crypto stolen throughout 2025, with North Korea again the top culprit December 18, 2025
  • The Curious Case of the Comburglar December 18, 2025 BHIS
  • Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 December 18, 2025 Connor Jones
  • U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes December 18, 2025 djohnson

Browse by tags

Active Directory Android Antivirus Apple Beta Chrome Computers Exchange Exchange 2007 Firefox General Thoughts Google InfoSec Internet Explorer iOS iPad IT Linux Mac Malware Microsoft OS OSx Patches Rants SBS SBS 2008 Security Security Patches Server SMB Software Support Surface TechEd Tweets Ubuntu Verizon Virus Vista vulnerabilities Windows Windows 7 Windows 8 XP