… and make college cheaper for all. — My wife and I graduated college in 2005 with about $30k in student loan debt. We found modest paying jobs, learned to live within our means, and paid off our loans. I feel we are the lucky ones. …

A Public Update on BDF-ng Development A bit of history for those new to the field or new to the project… The Backdoor Factory (BDF) began development in July 2012 as a way to automate a manually intensive task of adding a payload (aka backdoor) to a windows program. I released the first open source version…

*A calendar year, but really only 120 hours of work. Have you ever been curious about what’s it like to do bug bounties? Have you tried it? Have you seen the stats about how some people are making really good money? In this post, I’ll talk about my experience trying…

… and the Baltimore Mayor may need to reconsider. As of writing this, the Baltimore Mayor has decided that the city of Baltimore will not pay the ransomware fee of 13 Bitcoins (≈$100k). According NPR, cybersecurity ‘experts’ are stating that you shouldn’t pay the ransomware — if you pay ransomware…

I get this question from time to time when reporting a vulnerability. To be honest, the first couple times when asked this question, my mind would go to a very dark place with some absurdity. I can remember replying to one person “You could lose your job, wife, and custody…