GitHub offers hosted virtual machines to run workflows. The virtual machine contains an environment of tools, packages, and settings available for GitHub Actions to use. Overview of GitHub-hosted runners Runners are the machines that execute jobs in a GitHub Actions workflow. For example, a runner can clone your repository locally, install testing software, and then Read More …
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AZ 900 – Part I – Microsoft Azure Cloud Concepts
Microsoft Azure Cloud Concepts Cloud Service Models Types of Cloud Computing Benefits of the Cloud Fundamental characteristics of cloud computing Cloud computing offers convenient, on-demand access to your computing resources online. This has facilitated the move to remote work and supports collaboration wherever you are located. For IT teams, cloud services also make technological provisioning Read More …
Studio Notes – A Rhythm Guitar Pulse
Sometimes you want to feel a pulse of the track, but maybe the drums and bass are just not enough. If you have a strumming Rhythm guitar you can use your automation to make it pump to emphasize the beat. The pumping Rhythm guitar trick first of all select the Rhythm guitar track that you Read More …
What is an Electronic Press Kit or EPK
In the old days, physical press kits were paper-based and mailed old skool. Today, music artists can use digital media for promotion. This is known as an electronic press kit, or EPK. What is an EPK? An Electronic Press Kit is a digital resume for all audiences that is the promotional materials, giving everyone an Read More …
NOTES :: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
A solution model pattern in how to leverage large language models. Systems that use LLM but on their own content. Start Large language models can be inconsistent. Sometimes they nail the answer to questions, other times they regurgitate random facts from their training data. If they occasionally sound like they have no idea what they’re Read More …
AWS Notes – AWS Pentesting
An Opinionated Ramp Up Guide to AWS Pentesting https://awssecuritydigest.com/articles/opinionated-ramp-up-guide-to-aws-pentesting https://medium.com/@MorattiSec/my-aws-pentest-methodology-14c333b7fb58 Understanding the Shared Responsibility Model https://www.wiz.io/academy/shared-responsibility-model fwd:cloudsec https://fwdcloudsec.org/ AWS Customer Support Policy for Penetration Testing https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/ Also, read this and follow the AWS pentesting rules. Cloud Tests One is a review of the external facing posture, which you can consider adjacent to a traditional External Read More …
AuKill EDR Post
Summary AuKill is a malicious software, often used by ransomware groups, designed to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) security solutions on a system, essentially allowing attackers to bypass security measures before deploying ransomware by terminating EDR processes using a vulnerable, outdated driver like the Process Explorer driver from Sysinternals; effectively “killing” the EDR functionality. Key points about Read More …
Hook Chain EDR Kill
Summary Every binary loaded into WIndows, has a list of needed functions and processes in order for it to function properly. THink of a browser, it will use a Windows DLL to resolved the hostname to the IPv4 address and so forth. This Table can be hijacked, so instead of pointing to the appropriate function Read More …
Notes on “Paved Road”
Lessons from Securing Internal Applications WebappSec Link Building a Security Platform Engineering Team “”” I’m a big fan of building security into existing processes, a term coined as “secure paved roads” by Jason Chan, Ex-Netflix CISO. The idea behind this is that security should mostly be invisible. The average employee should simply not have to Read More …
Studio Notes – Limiters
With acoustic guitars you will hear some strums that are really loud and some strums that aren’t quite as loud. It could be very well played but you will still have some variation between strums. Sometimes the dynamic is quite loud and a compressor sometimes just can’t get a hold of that because the difference Read More …