Author: hrbrmstr
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Both Candidates Weak On [SSL] Security
While the two front-running candidates engaged in a bizarre, Klingon-esque ritual of hubris regarding which one was the better killer, their respective technical campaign staffers were failing to make the grade on security when it comes to…
Angry Birds Keynote Theme
If you went to SOURCE Boston this year (2012), attended my security awareness talk and liked the Angry Birds theme to the slides, here's a copy of the Keynote theme (it's not really a true Keynote theme as there are divergent slides I've…
Slaying the BEAST in nginx
Just a quick post as I noticed that my nginx configuration was vulnerable to the BEAST attack thanks to the #spiffy SSL Certificate Tester from Qualys (I scored an "A" , btw…
A Month With AfterShokz
Quick hit :: Over at the #tri blog, I've got a review of a relatively new bone-conducting headset by…
Getting Homebrew Working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 with Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 2
Work & home chaos has me a bit behind in the "ThinkStats…in R" posts, but I "needed" to get some of the homebrew kit working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 (to run some network discovery tools while waiting for #4's surgery to be…
ThinkStats … in R :: Example/Chapter 2 :: Example 2.1-2.3
As promised, this post is a bit more graphical, but I feel the need to stress the importance of the first few points in chapter 2 of the book (i.e. the difference between mean and average and why variance is meaningful). These are…
ThinkStats … in R :: Example 1.3
With 1.2 under our belts , we go now to the example in section 1.3 which was designed to show us how to partition a larger set of data into subsets for analysis. In this case, we're going to jump to example 1.3.2 to determine the number of…
ThinkStats … in R (including Example 1.2)
I thought it would be interesting to present some of the examples & exercises in the book in R . Why? Well, once you've gone through the material in a particular chapter the "hard way", seeing how you'd do the same thing in a language…
Two Alfred Extensions For Retrieving IP Address Information
I've been an unapologetic Alfred user since @hatlessec recommended it and have recently been cobbling together quick shell scripts that make life a bit…
An Infosec Hippocratic Oath
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this…