Archive for May, 2009
Building my security lab
So I’ve been slowly (that is VERY slowly) re-arranging my office to make some additional room for some additional computers. My goal is to create a security lab that will allow me in my spare time to work on my web assessment/penetration skills. My intention was to utilize either VMWare or Sun’s Virtual Box to give me some additional flexibility and hopefully keep my electric bill somewhere below the GDP of Micronesia (which in case you are wondering is about 232 million USD). Well while poking around today, I found this great article that covers Virtual Appliances, with a specific focus on those that would be of interest to the security professional. Now many of these would have nothing to do with my web application penetration testing, but they are still some pretty neat appliances. It’s worth a read:
Virtual appliances for the security professional
Why do you believe in god?
Science is hard
A good-bye to Tim Zewe
Tim Zewe shuffled off this mortal coil yesterday, May 2nd 2009. I had only recently been back in contact with Tim again through Facebook. I had hoped to see him and his soon-to-be-wife Christina on one of my trips to Erie in the near future. We had some catching up to do. I found this post on his blog called “Why I Suck at Baseball” and I think it sums Tim up better than I ever could (at least the Tim I knew from so many years ago), and it seems like a fitting tribute:
