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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Now and Later Bug Hunting Side Quest [04/28/24]

Posted on Sun 28 April 2024 in Thought, vulnerability research and discovery • Tagged with zde, chronicles, VR, 0day, vulnerability research, vulnerability discovery

Distracted..

This post is more about a side quest, as I was a bit distracted awaiting some responses on some UAF and Format string vulnerabilities submitted to a couple bug bounty programs.

In order to keep momentum going and my thirst for knowledge well fed with regards to vulnerability discovery …


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Rediscovering the Art of Vulnerability Discovery [04/24/24]

Posted on Wed 24 April 2024 in Thought, vulnerability research and discovery • Tagged with zde, chronicles, VR, 0day, vulnerability research, vulnerability discovery

Introduction to My Chronicles

If you've been keeping up with my adventures, you know I've dived back into low-level vulnerability discovery and research. Recently, I took some time to refresh my understanding of low-level code (assembly) and architecture review, particularly of ARM systems. Given that most systems I work on …


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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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