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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It has been a while since I updated this page, and quite a bit has happened since the last one. I am still writing about security and working in the MSP world. Outside of that, I have spent a lot of time on self-hosting, physical media,...
Part 4 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series closes the series by turning one verified lab observation into work an owner can understand, schedule, fix, and retest.A scanner...
On July 31, N-able detected a threat actor exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in N-central. By August 1, the company had published guidance. Hotfix 1 arrived on August 2. Continued monitoring found a related attack path, so...
The vibeDrained, proud, and ready for a cold front.I did not feel like myself for much of the week, but I still had a few things I was genuinely happy about. I am hoping the sick feeling passes soon and Texas remembers that summer does...
Part 3 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series examines what a lab target reveals before authentication and how its identity controls respond to a small, authorized set of failed...
This is a little outside the kind of thing I normally write about here, but I have been following the discussion around MacStories returning to Twitter/X over the last couple of days, and I kept finding myself thinking about it.Federico...
OverviewThis week, the most important stories were not subtle. CISA moved two Windows bugs and an MLflow flaw up the priority list because attackers are already using them. Zimbra admins also got an active-exploitation warning, while...
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...