Month: August 2018

Another day another “we can’t tell you much cuz ‘security’ but, um, we might have accidentally lost something that relates to you somehow, don’t worry nothing bad happened and you are fine, but, uh, we locked you out of your account”. Today it was Air Canada. Lets take a look and dissect, Below: Dear <<ME>>,…

The saga continues. In the beginning there was the voltbike urban. It was not too heavy, folded up, had 20″ tires, and was very comfortable to ride (once I put in the suspension seat post and the cruiser saddle). And then, suddenly, a wild bike thief arrives. And then we have none. So, I go…

Everyone agrees that the need for logging has not diminished in the universe. Many tools exist to ingest and normalise logs (splunk, logstash, …). A common set is the ‘EFK’ stack (Elasticseach, Fluentd, Kibana). In this model, fluentd runs listening on some port. Logs are sent there, and it has a set of unbelievably poorly…

The tale of the rich texan and the hitchhiking through colorado.

Ever look at a firewall log? For long? Without going blind? Your first reaction is “OMG I’m being hacked”. Who would have the audacity to try and connect to my ssh? After a bit, well, you give up. Its the Internet. There’s a lot of things happening, from research bots, to commercial scanners, to hackers.…