Things I build, break, fix, and write about

29 July 2026
Headlamp in-cluster deployment and RBAC boundaries

Headlamp in-cluster deployment only makes sense when the UI belongs inside the cluster, and even then the service account should be painfully narrow. I trust the boundary, not the person using it on a quiet afternoon.

28 July 2026
Marketplace takedown pressure on vendor operations

Marketplace takedowns do more than pull a site offline, they cut through the vendor routines that keep sales moving. In dark web marketplaces, that...

28 July 2026
Brickstorm persistence in Microsoft 365

Brickstorm showed how Microsoft 365 persistence can survive a tidy password reset and a few blocked logins. I keep coming back to the same point, if...

27 July 2026
Restricting Serv-U access before patching

The SolarWinds Serv-U flaw is the sort of bug that turns a routine patch into an ugly afternoon, so I would block the obvious request pattern first...

Latest blog posts you might like

19 May 2026
Fraud detection signs in redirector and payment domains

website fraud toolchains are rarely clever at first glance, which is why I trust the ugly details, the redirects, duplicate card prompts, and any thank-you page that appears after a decline. Once you...

19 May 2026
Using ISC Stormcast to set patch priority

ISC Stormcast strips the noise out of vulnerability watching, and that matters when patch windows are tight. I use it to decide what jumps the queue, what stays logged, and what is simply not worth...

18 May 2026
Outlook Junk folder link preview bypass

Outlook Junk Folder link preview bypass is a neat reminder that preview text is not validation. I trust the HTML, or I do not trust the mail at all; anything in between is how people get caught out.

18 May 2026
Reading exploit trends from ISC Stormcast

ISC Stormcast is only useful if you treat it as live signal, not background noise. I watch for repeated behaviour around the same service or exploit family, because that is what changes patch...

18 May 2026
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and 2 more Amazon tech bargains

Discover the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and more tech deals this week.

17 May 2026
hassh drift breaks Outlaw SSH detection

hassh drift is exactly why I do not trust one fingerprint for long; malware library updates change the banner and the hash, while the real mess sits in the commands and file writes after login. If you...

11 May 2026
Ring Outdoor Camera Battery + 2 more Amazon tech bargains

Explore the Ring Outdoor Camera Battery and two more tech bargains this week.

10 May 2026
Dirty Frag: page-cache corruption in Linux

Dirty Frag is the sort of bug I mistrust on sight, because the damage lands in page-cache corruption before disk ever notices. If you rely on Linux to keep shared buffers honest, this one is worth a...

10 May 2026
Operational indicators from ISC Stormcast to check

ISC Stormcast is useful when you strip away the diary clutter and look only at the indicators that survive a second glance. I trust hostnames, paths, dates and hashes far more than the banner around...

10 May 2026
Building an analytics UI from web honeypot logs

I built this from web honeypot logs because the raw output is mostly noise, and the useful part is buried in repetition, timing, and source clusters. The trick is to stop the dashboard turning into a...