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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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...
Part 3 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series begins where a scanner export usually ends: deciding which results represent reachable risk, who owns the affected systems, and how a fix will be...
The vibeExcited, overheated, and running on fumes.I am genuinely excited about what I spent the week building. I just wish I had felt better while doing it.Highlights📰 The biggest part of my week went into creating The Defender’s...
OverviewThis week put control planes and automation under pressure from both sides. Attackers abused firewall management, webmail, collaboration tools, exposed industrial controllers, software dependencies, and increasingly capable AI...
Cybersecurity news is not difficult to find. Deciding what deserves your attention—and what to do next—is the harder part.A vulnerability is disclosed. A vendor changes a policy. A new security tool appears. By the end of the week, you...
Part 2 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series applies the same evidence-first baseline to macOS: updates, encryption, network exposure, powerful permissions, management, and recovery.The platform...
OverviewThis edition is landing Thursday because last Friday got away from me. The July 18-24 window was defined by a familiar but uncomfortable pattern: security and management platforms became the attack path. SharePoint, firewall...
This one is a little late. We were on vacation through Monday, and once we got home, I needed a day to recover before I could even think about getting back to my usual schedule.The vibeProud, happy, and completely worn out.Highlights🎓...
Part 1 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series moves from personal-device hygiene to a Windows baseline that can be measured, piloted, and supported.Hardening a workstation is not a contest to enable...