The Background In March 2018, I was playing volleyball and broken my 5th metatarsal, a small, weight-bearing bone in my foot. When I went into for an X-ray, the doctor told me that it was the most frequestly broken bone in the foot and that "95% of people heal up just fine in about 3... Continue Reading →
This is a guest post by Steve Hall (https://twitter.com/shall_1). Thanks for writing it Steve! Update - 2022-03-171. Micah updated the MindMap file to version 2. Little less cluttered and more focused. It is in the same GitHub location and called "OSINT_Maps2.xmind"2. I've moved from MindMaps to Obsidian for documentation. Check out the blog post https://webbreacher.com/2022/03/15/obsidian/... Continue Reading →
I absolutely love all of the public projects where people share their favorite OSINT bookmarks with others. You've most likely seen some of them. [UPDATE] Bruno Mortier (@digintelosint) created an excellent resource of resources page at https://start.me/p/ZME8nR/osint where a bunch of these sites are catalogued. Head over there and check them out! If you haven't... Continue Reading →
SEC487 SANS Institute OSINT course http://www.sans.org/sec487
In this post I use a python tool (EyeWitness), TOR, TorGhost, and the Dark Web Reports from Hunchly to automate viewing the Dark Web resources.
A good friend and colleague of mine and I had a conversation today about the video "InterView - Attitude is everything - Film By Nithesh".  WARNING: There is NSFW (Not Safe For Work) language in the video. In the video, an interviewer is looking for a candidate to fill a role. The interesting bit is why... Continue Reading →
What is WannaCry? In March 2017, Microsoft issued the MS17-010 bulletin (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx) patching (and warning) of a broad set of vulnerabilities in many of its operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 10 and 2016. This vulnerability could be exploited via the DOUBLEPULSAR attack released by ShadowBrokers and supposedly attributed to the NSA. For more... Continue Reading →
Sending financial, health and other sensitive information over the internet is like sending postcards in the snail mail. From the time you hit send to the time it is received in the other person's mailbox anyone can read your messages. Once in the email-provider mailbox (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Comcast...) they can read the email and... Continue Reading →
Since my Imposter Syndrome Feelings talk at BSidesNOVA (video here:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls-dnpeKRR0) was 25 minutes, I had to remove some content from what I needed to present. One thing I omitted was the Dunning-Kruger Effect. A Summary David Dunning and Justin Kruger conducted a study of college students in 1999. They found that people "tend to hold... Continue Reading →
Imposter feelings and imposter syndrome resources and links.