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Best Pfsense hardware

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:00:55 +0000

The best Pfsense hardware is rather subjective. I think the ideal Pfsense box should deliver solid performance while being affordable. A year or so ago, Pauldotcom did a podcast on building your own router, but the resulting beast was overkill. It

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CISSP continuing education

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:00:30 +0000

Besides work experience, I probably get more questions about CISSP continuing education than anything else CISSP-related. Fortunately, keeping your CISSP can be a lot cheaper and easier than getting it in the first place was. CISSP continuing education is measured

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Did Microsoft steal DOS from CP/M?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:00:53 +0000

Did Microsoft steal DOS from CP/M? There’s $100,000 in it for you if you can prove they did. Digital forensics consultant Bob Zeidman still says no. I’ve written about him before. But the rumors persist, hence the reward. So how would

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Cyber security podcasts I listen to

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:00:39 +0000

Yesterday, after reading a post in which I cautioned about a popular security podcast, someone asked me what cyber security podcasts I do listen to. I wrote this up a long time ago and never posted it for some reason,

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High side vs low side

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:00:50 +0000

The other day I heard a reference to the “high side vs low side” of a computer system in a podcast, and the speaker didn’t stop to clarify. Worse yet is when you hear “on the low side” or “on

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Use F.lux to help yourself sleep better

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:00:35 +0000

I was listening to a podcast when the talk went off on a tangent, to a utility called F.lux. Whoever was talking made it sound like it was just for one platform, so I went looking for an alternative for Windows,

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How to disarm a scammer

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:00:29 +0000

Buried unfortunately deep in August’s Social Engineer podcast was some outstanding advice from British TV star R. Paul Wilson, who turned scamming into prime-time BBC TV for several seasons. Wilson, who literally has sold someone a bridge that he of course didn’t

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Droidpocalypse? Josh Drake says no.

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 11:00:34 +0000

Josh Drake, the researcher who discovered the Stagefright vulnerability in Android that lets an attacker hack into an Android device by sending a specially crafted picture or video in a text message, was on the Risky Business security podcast this week to

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Stunt Hacking: Why Charlie Miller hacked a Jeep driving on I-64

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:00:00 +0000

St. Louis-based security researcher Charlie Miller and his collaborator Chris Valasek got themselves in the news this week by hacking a Jeep driven by Wired journalist Andy Greenberg on I-64. The reaction was mixed, but one common theme was, why I-64, where lives

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Work-life integration vs. work-life balance

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:00:53 +0000

I wanted to bring up another subtopic from Dr. Ellen Langer’s interview on the Social Engineer podcast: work-life integration. It’s important to consider work-life integration vs. work-life balance. Dr. Langer stated that work-life balance is inherently unhealthy, because the idea creates a

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