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The Illusion of Security Most environments aren’t completely unsecured. Firewalls are enabled. Logging exists. Alerts are configured. From the outside, it looks fine , maybe even responsible. The problem usually isn’t that controls are missing. It’s that they’re inactive. In recent work, I’ve seen plenty of environments where security features were technically enabled but effectively not. Logs existed but weren’t reviewed. Alerts fired but no one responded. Failures occurred without changing outcomes. ...

Home Lab Overview – Alecto and Friends TL;DR (No Specs) I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with different operating systems and finding ways they can genuinely improve my day-to-day life. Right off the bat, I should say that I am not a cloud hater. Cloud services are great, and I still make use of them. I just prefer self-hosting for the fun of it. With most SaaS solutions, you are ultimately limited by design choices that aren’t yours. My biggest system within my self-hosted mini data centre is my Plex machine, which allows me to watch what I want, how I want, for little more than the cost of electricity. ...

1. Why This Camera? I came across this cheap IPC camera on a local marketplace here in South Africa. The price was perfect to mess around with the device and potentially break it. The device cost around R300, or roughly $10. My goal with this device was to go from zero to one hundred in terms of how I document findings, while also looking at every nook and cranny I could reasonably reach. ...

I work in cybersecurity with a strong focus on how systems actually behave once they leave the lab and hit the real world. Most of my time is spent breaking things apart , networks, embedded devices, cloud services, and poorly thought out assumptions , to understand how they fail, how they’re abused, and how they can be made better. I’m especially interested in areas where disciplines overlap like where hardware meets software, firmware meets networking, and theory meets reality. ...