Healthcare Breach Report analysis from the OCR/HHS

Posted on Mon 19 August 2024 in Thought • Tagged with healthcare, security, analytics, data

Breach Report!

Why am I writing about healthcare breach reports? Well I like data, especially unsexy data. Also a couple friends (you might know who) and I are looking into some unsexy parts of industries that are underserved and in need of help to make impact for the better good …


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Back to the Chronicles [07/15/24]

Posted on Mon 15 July 2024 in Thought • Tagged with thought, daily, update

Just an update

Took some weeks off from the nightly grind. Although I mostly kept up with current events, research, reading, and watching some past con talks. Now it's Hacker Summer Camp time, and all the conferences are in full swing. I probably won't be attending them, but I do …


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Simple Cybersecurity LLM Chatbot sorta [2024-03-18]

Posted on Mon 18 March 2024 in Thought • Tagged with security, LLM, AI, mistral, llama2

Why?

Because why not? I've already built a couple of LLM-specific focus bots that are truly locally hosted. But, documenting the process? That's new to me. Plus, I aimed for this to be a self-contained/isolated application. So, in this event, I wanted to document the basic setup since I …


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Alert Severity Context [2024-02-22]

Posted on Thu 22 February 2024 in Thought • Tagged with alerts, malware, vulnerabilities, security, IT, devops, sre, lgd

Earlier, I was having a discussion with some friends about what feeds into alert severity. Given our background in cybersecurity, we've seen our fair share of security alerts, but also a fair amount outside of the security domain (think IT, SRE, DEVOPS, Compliance, Business risk, etc.). So, what goes into …


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macOS VM prep on Apple Silicon [2024-02-19]

Posted on Mon 19 February 2024 in Thought • Tagged with RE, reverse engineering, macOS, exploit dev, VM, virtual machine

macOS setup on silicon

Setting up virtual machines (VM) has always been fun for me, yet it seems to be a practice from the past. When setting up a VM of macOS Sonoma on Apple Silicon, particularly the Apple M1 Max with 64GB of memory, I was in search of …


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