A Northern Geeks trip, well, nowhere

It’s hard to judge time given current non-technical ongoings, but it’s (about) a year since the “A Northern Geeks trip…..” series stayed close to home. That was the inaugural BSides Newcastle, and somehow it came time for the 2020 edition. Which brought about some changes; firstly, C-19 forced the organising team to abandon some amazing […]

AWS Cloud Deployment Toolkit

After posting previously about dipping my toe in the Infrastructure as Code waters with Terraform, a kind individual (who requested staying nameless) asked if I’d encountered AWS’ native Cloud Deployment Toolkit (CDK). I vaguely remember seeing a Beta announcement sometime back when the toolkit was first announcement, but had discounted at the time as it […]

Cowrie SSH Honeypot – AWS EC2 build script

Happy New Year all! Whilst eating FAR too much turkey and chocolates over the festive break, I’ve managed to progress a couple of personal projects on (between stints on the kids’ Scalectrix track, thanks Santa). Still tasks to do(*), but a working EC2 User-Data script to build to automate deployment Cowrie honeypot has reached MVP […]

[Project] AWS-Card-Spotter – Terraform deployment

tl;dr – this project can now be deployed automatically with a Terraform script Last project update, I introduced my project to leverage AWS resource to identify if pictures uploaded to an S3 bucket might contain images of credit cards, and in turn need special handling under an organisation’s PCI DSS processes. And it worked! But […]

A Northern Geek's Trip South – 2019 edition

How time flies; and with it, another BSides London is a long distant memory. My itinerary for the pilgrimage South was familiar, mostly following a well worn pattern InfoSec Europe Tuesday BSides itself Wednesday Thursday? Recovery time in the capital, before heading for the train back to (my) civilised society. And throughout: a generous smattering […]