by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig I wrote the majority of this about a year ago and it sat in my drafts folder. I didn’t have the time nor mental energy to fully…
Naughty Serenade
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig One of my passions is old movies. Mostly Hollywood golden era, but all kinds. I post a short blog entry for the pre-1980 films I watch. For…
Adventures in Server-Sitting
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server seems to occasionally enter a steady state. The syslog logs, the IDS detects, the vulnerability scanner scans, the web server serves. I stop routinely…
D-Link Router Compromise Attempt
by Fred Theilig – @[email protected] Security Onion threw up three alerts this week:WGET Command Specifying Output in HTTP HeadersPossible D-Link Router HNAP Protocol Security Bypass AttemptD-Link Devices Home Network Administration Protocol Command…
Diving Back Into Apache Logs
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server has been pretty quiet as of late. Sometimes because it’s literally quiet. I will shut it down from time to time because the fans…
The Choices We Make
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig We are not who we used to be. Well, mostly we are, but in a real sense we aren’t. Every minute cells die and are replaced. Neurons…
Security on the Flip Side
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig Occasionally mentioned in a podcast, I was only tangentially aware of the Security BSides conferences. More notice was taken while attending DEF CON this past summer, which…
Udemy for free
It was brought to my attention that Rhode Island has partnered with Udemy through gale. If you own a library card, read this! Udemy is one of my ‘go-tos’ for getting up…
Threat Hunting for the Uninitiated
By Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig I took a look at my UniFi wifi and discovered the following: Ah! A rogue device! Did a son bring a new device into the house? Did…
A (slightly) Deeper Dive into Weird Apache Logs
By Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My IDS alerted me to strange behavior (obfuscated Log4j) on my web server, but rather than investigate through Security Onion, I went straight to the logs. Greping…