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Another bug disclosed

Posted on November 30, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Another bug disclosed

By now we all know about the bug for MacOS that has been so cleverly referred to as #IamRoot on Twitter. So there are some thoughts I had about it. First and foremost, this did not affect just root. If you actually read a breakdown of the bug like this one, you will see why….

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Another week down

Posted on November 17, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Another week down

So another week, another set of same stuff different day. The Reverse Engineering class through the Brakesec slack is going fantastic. So well in fact that there is an extra week added onto it. The videos should be public mid to late december through their youtube channel so you might want to check that out….

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Forward and Back

Posted on November 10, 2017 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Forward and Back

Few things happened this week. First was that I took (and passed) the CISSP exam. 6 Months of studying, worrying, and panicking all through. The test itself was not exactly what I expected, as it seemed to focus on a couple of domains and barely touched on others. Still, that is something I am glad…

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