Gant Rose

Creating My Own Youtube

Recently I have been diving into the Fediverse. If you're not familiar with that, that's ok. The Fediverse is a term used to describe an interconnected system of different services. The most popular one being Mastodon an alternative to Twitter. I have used Mastodon off and on over the years

Minute Key, striving to make your building less secure.

I recently came across a post that was being shared on Twitter of a display in a retail store showing that they can now duplicate key fobs for access control systems. The company offering this service is Minute Key, those kiosks you see at Walmart and other big box retailers,

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Apache Log4j Vulnerability

The internet is running wild with the newest zero day that exploits Apache's Log4j2. If you haven't heard about it, a simple search will bring up hundreds of articles detailing what it is and how it could potentially affect you. I wont get into those details as it has been

Brute Force an API With Python.

In my search at learning programming with Python, I have been learning how to write simple versions of tools used for security testing. I recently wanted to try and make a simple script to guess a password on an app I knew used basic authentication for its API. The thought

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Facebook’s physical security went down. What happened?

It was an important lesson that everyone can learn from. Sometimes you can get wrapped up in one idea and completely miss the point of what your were doing to begin with.

Infinias Access Control Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41847)

This vulnerability was tested and discovered on a system that I have proper access and administrative rights to, this information is being provided as disclosure and should not be and is not intended to be used for malicious purposes. I believe public disclosure of this issue is needed as the

Own Your Data

With concerns about privacy on the internet it's never too late to look into ways you can secure your private information and still have an online presence. There are many approaches to this subject, I'm going to cover the ones that I implement myself along with some easy to do

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