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1. "logstash --funroll loops!"

   Trigger warning: ELK

   As anyone who's spent any time debugging ELK, or more accurately logstash will tell you, it's a slow process. Everyone instantly leaps to share Grok Constructor or Grok Debugger, which are both super useful, but not always the point. There's a lot more to debugging logstash than …

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2. "Music For Adverts (And Short Films)"

   Trigger warning: this post can be seen as pretty bleak, talks about depression and suicide, doesn't mention kittens much. It's also stupidly long.

   Seeing as computers aren't a subject I can write about anymore, I'll write about something near and dear to my heart, the so called black dog of …

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3. "Malory isn't the only imposter in infosec"

   So a tweet by Dr. Jessica Barker about imposter syndrom in infosec got me replying about how I've had imposter syndrome a bunch. Perhaps no more and no less than anyone else, we'll see, but I said I'd write it up as the tweets was not ideal for it. (Sadly …

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4. "A Dockery of a sham"

   (This is a bit ragey. I'm not gonna link to anything/anyone, and I wasn't even there, but this attracted my ire)

   Tired of people hating on @Docker/a> giving out @yubico/a> Yubikeys at their conf. Yes it's trusting USB devices at a conference, which us jaded security types …

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5. "Logstash and vim"

   After my mature hissy fit on twitter.

   Is there a grok pattern for logstash configuration files so they don’t look like perl? - @benjammingh/a>

   Eventually, once I picked my toys up from the floor (and apologised to @jordansissel/a>), I figured I could do something about this.

   So I …

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6. "eh vim"

   Someone recently asked about what vim plugins to use. As I'm somewhat against putting everything on github I figured I'd go the more painstaking path of blogging about them.

   Vundle

     " let Vundle manage Vundle
     " required!
     Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
   

   Vundle plugin manager it's this or pathogen but Vundle will download the …

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7. "Pining for GPG to try"

   So anyone's who had to suffer through seeing one of my talks (and let's be honest, we can't get enough of them, can we?) you've have heard me talk lovingly about Yubikeys. They're hardware tokens that can store crytographic tokens for HOTP and a bunch of other stuff.

   Why do …

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8. "Enabling click to play"

   Click to what?

   Click to play, it's a way of forcing plugins in your web browser in to gaining consent from you in to running. Why is this important? Well, malicious web pages can do a lot with them. Adobe Flash Player, the main one I'm about to talk about …

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9. "1980s exfil with Zmodem"

   A common way of getting tools on to a machine, or exfilling data is to encode it in some way and paste it in or out, something like xxd or base64. So you don't have to open up yet another channel, in or out. A wget outbound or scp in …

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