The Pihole is a device built on a single board computer (sbc). The device acts as an ad-blocker for your network. There are also blacklists that can be applied or you can build your own.
I good deal for people build these with a raspberry pi, but I found 2 orange pi zeroes for cheap and decided to build on out of this.
Again, had a post planned and instead news caused a different post.
Even before the Supreme Court officially struck down the Roe v. Wade decision and sent reproductive health issues back to the states there were stirrings questioning how incoming changes might effect health apps and data collection.
Living in today’s world people might not worry about how much of their information is readily collected or available. Perhaps, they’ve resigned themselves to the fact that they can’t stop their data being collected. There has been very little headway made in crafting some type of national privacy law, so it makes one feel like this is just inevitable, online privacy is your own concern.
For months before today reading through Twitter brought calls for women to remove period tracking apps and be more cognizant of how their data might be collected and in the future possibly subpoenaed as proof of some ‘reproductive crime’..
“Democrat lawmakers along with privacy advocates are now growing worried prosecutors in these anti-abortion states will use subpoenas to demand tech companies help them identify which users have visited an abortion provider.” -Michael Kan, PCMag.
I would definitely consider myself a privacy advocate. I think the majority of infosec people are concerned about privacy to some degree. It’s concerning that it really took something so dramatic to bring this conversation about data collection back to the foreground.
It can be proposed that perhaps we all just became too complacent in many ways…
Comptia just announced a cloud+ beta. Think I might take it just to feel out the material, it’s $50 and I’m interested in cloud security aspects in the future, so why not. Next few posts will be about the road to studying this, linux and cysa…because why not I’ve got time.
It is the end of 2019 and like most I want to take a moment to reflect on all the things that I actually have accomplished this year. Sometimes we can think too much about where we aren’t that we don’t focus on where we actually are and how far we have come. At the beginning of this year I had just changed careers and I was a little unsure of where or if I actually fit in. Now, I’m more self-assured and confident in my ability to learn and retain new things and the “rightness” of this course .
Accomplishments
Passed Network+
Passed Security+
Participated in First CTF (Individual and Group)
Started a Blog
Delved more into Cryptography
Cracked a Password
Finished my First Year in a Cybersecurity Position
Attended my first Cybersecurity Conference (Hacker Halted in Atlanta)
Finished Undergrad work (Only have my Capstone left)
But, it’s also good to look back at how we might have failed because epic-ly failing is how we level-up epic-ly.
Failures
My First CTF was a Bull in a China Shop Scenario
The Group work was worse; most of my group work across categories was kind of a bust (Pen-testing Methodology for a Class was the 1 exception)
Really buckling down and learning Linux…
”Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes.”
—Lawrence Bossidy
Upcoming….
CYSA+ (Taking the Beta in a few days…[crossed fingers])
Linux+ (Voucher has already been purchased)
Finish Undergrad and move directly onto Graduate Coursework
Build out Security Lab
Put a Dent in My InfoSec Book Collection
Get Better at Networking…
“The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on. “
Build A Security Ninja 