The Grimoire

Welcome to volume twenty-two of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we take a look at an IndieWeb journey that is yours for the taking, reflect on the power of (true) decentralization, and kit up on the cyber front.

Welcome to volume twenty-one of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we catch up on weeks lost, we reject the “whatever web”, are reminded why the Fediverse is awesome, and I share an assortment of infosec tid-bits.

Welcome to volume twenty of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. In this quieter week, I ask, “why do we blog?”

Welcome to volume nineteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, we pick up the scraps, help others join the Fediverse and get a li’l phreaky.

Welcome to volume eighteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. In this issue, we ask “what is the web?”, we gaze across the Fediverse, and we declare “mission accomplished” on cybersecurity 🤡!

Welcome to volume seventeen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This somewhat special edition includes a smattering of things from the past month. Things I’ve saved but never got around to sharing out. As such, you may find some of it to be “old news”. But hopefully there’s some interesting nuggets as well!

Welcome to volume sixteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, I urge you to blog more, we check in on ways to tap into the Fediverse, and surprise! even boats are insecure.

Welcome to volume fifteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, we tap into the light side of the force web, laud the benefits of decentralization, and take a lovely lovely trip to Potatoland!

I saw a thread recently which asked people to share their “path” in cybersecurity. I’ve long maintained a few lists that sorta represent this path, so I decided to mush them together to create this simplified timeline of notable career events (e.g. degrees, job changes, certs and other large life or professional-adjacent events).

Welcome to volume fourteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we discuss the value of your personal web identity, we talk toot-mobility, and we automate our “no’s”.

Welcome to volume thirteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. In this edition, we take part in the web revival, focus on Fedi community, and share urgent info with Dell owners.

Here’s my submission to lazybea.rs series Over/Under. The idea is simple, Hyde gives me some topics and I state whether those things are overrated or underrated, with some text about why. Here were my chosen topics…

• Indieweb
• Slashpages
• Sharks are dangerous
• Ransomware
• Octopus dishes

Welcome to volume twelve of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, we’re brewing web-potions, celebrating the Fediverse, and scrapping some funeral plans (for now).

The CVE program is dying. Damn. ¹

What does this mean? What were CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) doin’ for us anyway? Are CVEs considered critical cybersecurity infrastructure? What are we gunna’ do now?! Panic!! Read on for more hyper-composed and ever-well-researched analysis! (Plus, plenty of related resources, per usual.)

Much digital ink has been spilt on the plight of the cybersecurity workforce. Is there a talent shortage? A skills gap? Other, darker issues? Here’s what I think…

Welcome to volume eleven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we do whatever we want, the Fediverse is doomed (but less doomed than elsewhere), and we visit Hacking-town.

A line I see repeated a lot amongst infosec professional circles is “infosec is not an entry-level field”. This is typically followed by recommendations from these same “professionals” to first get jobs within the help desk for a few years before trying to move into a true cybersecurity role. This is crap advice, and very gatekeepey.

Welcome to volume ten of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, we kick write-it old-school, see what’s buzzin’ across the Fediverse, get into some neat cyber-frameworks, and a whole lot more!

Welcome to volume nine of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we go old-school with webrings, emphasize the importance of the Fediverse, and see ghosts in the machine.

Welcome to volume eight of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we work on our selves sites, consider how we want to use social media, and learn to hunt for dead bodies (of code).

I saw this post from Jacob titled Beware tech career advice from old heads and I think it’s spot on. Infosec, even back when I was first getting into the field in 2010-ish, has always had that seemingly artificial barrier-to-entry, but there was A LOT that was different then and just doesn’t apply today. The technical/experience expectation(s) for newcomers has skyrocketed, the competition for jobs has ballooned by several orders of magnitude it seems, opportunities have stagnated to a degree, and the advent of AI has started to put pressure on these sorts of technical roles.

Welcome to volume seven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, we conquer doubt, recognize the primacy of the Fediverse, and look at some super-duper-serious cyber stuff.

Here I answer the question “Is cybersecurity a good career?…”

Welcome to volume six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, there is a focus on the tectonic shifts of the web, as we claw back our independence from “big tech”. Plus, you see me try a little harder to add some narrative color to the Cybersecurity section of this newsletter. Let’s get scrollin’!

Some AI threat / threat modeling / security resources I’ve collected…

Answering a series of questions orbiting the larger question “how is the job (in infosec)?”. I answered this kinda rapid-fire on Reddit, but decided to come back here in the note and give it a bit more thought and embellishment…

Welcome to volume five of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

But first! Why am I doing this newsletter? Why the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity? Just why? Well, these things are awesome, that’s why! The truth is, I spend a great deal of time learning and doing a lot of stuff related to these three things. I subscribe to a lot, discover a lot, read a lot, learn a lot, build a lot. So why not synthesize some fraction of these things, compile it all, add some color, and ultimately share it with everyone else? With all of you! That’s what this is, and why I do it.

Welcome to volume four of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. Featured topics for this week include how, and more importantly, why to start a personal website, as well as how to join and help grow the Fediverse. Enjoy!

In the past, I’ve been a bit self-concious about how/what I posted on my site. I believe there’s some part of my readership that comes to my site specifically for infosec-related stuff. So anything NON-infosec that I post is something that they may see on my site, or in their RSS reader and cause them to lose interest in my site because it’s no longer just the infosec stuff they want to see.