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The Secret Sauce Does Not Help Security

Posted on July 19, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on The Secret Sauce Does Not Help Security

There are a ton of tools out there, some work well, some not so well. Most of them have some sort of secret sauce, you know the stuff we are not supposed to see because it might be a trade secret or the company is just not good at documenting them. I recently have been…

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Thotcon 0x9

Posted on May 11, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Thotcon 0x9

Security/Hacking conferences are interesting. Each one has its own uniqueness about it, and yet they are all similar in some fashion, stemming from the “granddaddy” of them all, Defcon. These conferences are all over the place, and in the Chicago area we have two main ones, BSides Chicago and Thotcon. Now Thotcon just happened over…

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Wild Thing – A Post Cyphercon post

Posted on April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Wild Thing – A Post Cyphercon post

Last week broke my string of consecutive weeks posting on this blog. It was a bit busy for me, as I was at Cyphercon up in Milwaukee. The talk I gave went well I feel. Got some good feedback and some good constructive criticism. The only problem I had with the talk was the person…

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