AWS CloudWatch enables monitoring and alerting on cloud events.

AWS Security Hub eases the pain of cloud monitoring

Help protect APIGW from attackers with AWS WAF

AWS CloudTrail is the cornerstone of cloud SECOPS

No more contributing to the Evil Empire

How my career is changing.

Access Office 365 email from (Doom) Emacs with mbsync and mu4e!

Compiling emacs on macOS using Homebrew

My notes on compiling emacs for macOS

My personal spacemacs cheatsheet for daily use.

I share my experience and lessons learned from operating a public bug bounty.

Methods for sending and receiving data across a network with JavaScript

Extract files from tcpdump or wireshark captures

Use this to recover TLS session keys for a java program.

Use mallory proxy to view non-https encrypted mobile traffic

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about an emerging trend I observed with some of the bounty researchers I was interacting with. This screed can be considered an extension of that article. There an emerging trend I’m noticing - I’ve been receiving more messages like the following: Hey , I found Security Vulnerability in your web application ,which can damage site as well as users too.For security purpose can we report vulnerability here,then will i get bounty bounty reward in PayPal or Bitcoin for Security bug ?...

Configuring Spacemacs Go layer and environment variables on macOS

Acknowledgment of the book I just finished reading [Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life:An Antidote to Chaos”](http://a.co/fjIjHzX “Jordan Peterson: “12 Rules for Life:An Antidote to Chaos””) and I can not say enough good things about this book. As the subtitle implies, this book deals with helping the reader create order out of the chaos of life. There are brilliant ideas Peterson puts forth which I already knew, but couldn’t articulate, and the effectiveness of Peterson’s words shocked me....

Update: 2018-08-10 Shortly after writing this post, I switched to Spacemacs develop branch - cd ~/.spacemacs && git checkout develop This upgraded my Spacemacs to version [email protected]. This had the unexpected side effect of changing several of the key bindings below. Settinm schedules and deadlines - now require a prefix of SPC m d before entering your selection (d for deadlines, s for scheduling) Sparse trees - keybind moved to SPC m s s Archive tree - keybind moved to SPC m s A (I didn’t cover this in my original article, but this is how I archive DONE tasks) Show all TODO and deadlines - keybind moved to SPC m s s t and SPC m s s d Introduction This is a basic overview of org-mode inside of Spacemacs....

In a post from 2015,, I write about some of the “Security 101” issues I considered to be fundamental. Since 2015, I’ve been exposed to several environments where I have seen the same basic security fails. In addition to my previous Security 101 items (2FA, avoiding password reuse, using a password manager, being mindful of what gets posted on social media, and inspecting email links) I would like to add the following new items to my “Security 101”:...