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Basic Hardening with User Data / Cloud-Init

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Cody Bunch

The ‘cloud’ presents new and interesting issues around hardening an instance. If you buy into the cattle vs. puppies or cloudy application building mentality, your instances or VMs will be very short lived (Hours, Weeks, maybe Months). The internet however, doesn’t much care for how short lived the things are, and the attacks will begin[…]

Getting Started with SpiderFoot

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Cody Bunch

At some point in my past, I may or may not have done some InfoSec. As part of that role, “foot printing” a target was a tedious task. Basically, you would try to find anything and everything you could about said target, without actually engaging. When you consider the number of datasources available (Google, gmane.org,[…]