Ryan Murphy

Feb 25

Marie Kondo Your Cloud: Security Through Simplification

Marie Kondo may not be the first person to come to mind when you first login to your GCP, AWS or Azure console in the morning. However,...

Dec 13, 2021

Exploiting Log4j (CVE-2021-44228)

The most recent vulnerability in Apache's Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) took the world by storm on Thursday night (12/9/21). By now there are...

Dec 23, 2020

Building a Custom Chef 12 Package to Avoid Ruby SegFaults

In an attempt to get an older version of Chef (12.22.5) working on a newer operating system (Ubuntu 20.04) I came across a segmentation...

Dec 12, 2020

Obtaining a Court Order for NY Birth Certificates

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. I'll be updating this as I get new information but as of now, I have not gone through with this procedure...