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 team connects it to the documentation platform so it can suggest a fix....

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 all.Highlights📺 Work continues on my Jellyfin server. It has been an interesting...

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 authorized.Offensive techniques are useful to defenders when they reveal an attack path,...

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 network has a password printed on the room key sleeve. Sometimes the front desk...

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 TPM maintainers also shipped fixes that deserve a deliberate inventory check...

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 small operating model for environments that cannot justify collecting every...

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 in that mode where it keeps finding one more thing to build, fix, or improve. It...

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 encoding are not lightweight background chores. They need local storage, sustained...

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 still had to find the correct title on it, match the movie, create the folder...

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 begins with a login notification, a missing phone, an unexpected bank transfer, a...

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 episodes scattered through a season directory. Before any of it lands in the...

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 platforms sitting above ordinary endpoints. The common problem was not obscure code....