Zero Trust Architecture is one of the internet’s most highly overused buzzwords. At its core, it is a set of recommendations to secure an organization by: removing implicit trust enforcing least privileged access, and applying continuous risk evaluation and monitoring. NIST 800-207 formally documents the architecture. In this post we will attempt to simplify the […]
Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine that can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice penetration testing. This article will look at the steps required for installing Metasploitable on Hyper-V. Downloading Metasploitable There are a number of versions available for download. We will be using the download available directly […]
In this brief article we will upgrade Kali Linux to release 2022.1. This upgrade demonstration is on a Hyper-V virtual machine. The steps, however, are not specific to Hyper-V VMs and will work on other platforms. Kali 2022.1 was released on Feburary 14th 2022 with the full release notes located here. If you would like […]
This article documents the process of installing Kali Linux as a virtual machine running on a Windows 10 workstation using Hyper-V. The installation has numerous steps but most of them involve accepting default values. Rather than include all of the screenshots inline (which will become unwieldy), this article will be broken into several pages. An […]
How to update Spring Boot applications to Log4J 2.17.1 which repairs the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-44832.
Several weeks out from the initial zero-day event, the IT world continues to work through the remediation and blowback from the Apache Log4J vulnerability. First published as CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell) on 9 December 2021, subsequent CVEs continue to be issued as quick turnaround patches fail to completely resolve the problem. The most recent version is now […]
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