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Random Stuff for the week ending 9-30-17

Posted on September 29, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Random Stuff for the week ending 9-30-17

Since I don’t have a single topic to write about I figure some thoughts, ideas and endorsements/suggestions would be a nice change of pace. I have to wonder at what point we reach oversaturation on data breaches (if we haven’t already) to the point where people shrug their shoulders and go meh. I have to…

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First time for everything

Posted on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on First time for everything

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4PM CST, my manager gave me a document called KB1243-Critical-Install.docx to analyze. This document is a self executing zip file using a docx type, with an embedded OLE binary object that executes, contacts an external site, and downloads a payload. I ended my analysis about 11AM CST 9-13-2017. Below is…

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Practice What You Preach

Posted on August 4, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Practice What You Preach

Over the last week, the infosec community has had a hard lesson thrown at it. Are we going to actually learn from it though?   We are self righteous, our community, the world of infosec. We preach, make fun of, pick on, slam, and do just about anything else negative about how things get handled….

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