CybersecKyle
CybersecKyle
Kyle
I love everything tech. You can check out more about me on my website. I blog about cybersecurity, technology trends, and best practices in IT. I even share the occasional tech review every now and then.
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Part 2 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses a controlled message to test email authentication, filtering, reporting, and response without collecting a real credential or turning...
Picture a fairly ordinary MSP automation project. The first version reads an incoming support ticket and produces a summary for the technician. It saves a little time, touches one source of information, and cannot change anything. Then...
The vibeProud, comfortable, and happily absorbed.I have a lot of things in progress right now, but they are the kind of things I genuinely enjoy working on. Even when I find another kink to work out, I am still having a blast with it...
Part 1 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series builds the boundary every later exercise depends on: a lab target that is isolated, disposable, observable, and unquestionably...
Hotel Wi-Fi asks us to make a strange trade. We trust a network we have never seen, operated by people we will never meet, using equipment we cannot inspect, because cellular service is weak and we need to answer an email.Sometimes the...
OverviewThis week was a reminder that the patch queue is not a flat list. Three newly cataloged exploited vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day, demand attention before the rest of the August update pile. VMware, Adobe, SAP, and...
Part 6 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series turns a few reliable log sources into detections with owners, response notes, and test evidence.SIEM-lite is not an undersized enterprise SIEM. It is a...
This one is a few days late. Most of my free time last week went into personal projects, and I kept choosing “one more thing” on the server over sitting down to write this. LOL.The vibeRestless, but in a good way.My brain has been stuck...
My DVD drive is attached to a Windows PC. My Jellyfin server runs somewhere else. For a while, the gap between them meant the server was still getting pulled into work the Windows machine was better positioned to do.Ripping and video...
I have a shelf of DVDs and a Jellyfin server. The part between those two things used to be a pile of commands, notes, and small decisions I had to remember every time I wanted to add a movie.Ripping the disc was only the beginning. I...
Part 5 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series is the first page to open when a device, account, payment, or public service may be compromised.An incident rarely arrives with a reliable label. It...
I like Jellyfin. I do not like the part right before Jellyfin gets involved.A download finishes, but the name is full of release details Jellyfin does not need. The folder may have subtitles, artwork, a trailer, a featurette, or several...
OverviewThis week was a tour of the systems organizations trust to do work at scale. Attackers hit RMM, AI workflow, package, identity, browser, network, and logistics infrastructure, while vendors shipped high-impact fixes for the...
If a privacy feature says it hides your IP address, every network request a website can trigger has to respect that promise. Protecting the main browser traffic is not enough when a side path can quietly go around it.Apple’s iCloud...
Part 4 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses one small system to connect architecture, abuse paths, controls, and tests before the design becomes expensive to change.Threat modeling often...