| What | "IT Security Analyst" |
| Where | edu.au |
| Why | People make poor life choices |
| How | Positive change by positive actions |
December? What the hell have I done to myself? Have I spent this time working? Probably. Have I spent this time educating myself? Not enough. Have I spent it with loved ones? Not enough of them IMHO.
For all those I’ve missed, you’re not forgotten.
Be kind to yourselves.
I await the call.
Long time... ...life happens.
I hope you're all well, healthy and safe. Things are good here and work is still interesting and has it's challenges.
Hugs all.
Molasses is such a weird substance. It’s incredibly sticky and gums up any mechanical equipment it comes into contact with. It spreads like a virus. When it’s crystallized it is a fine powdered cloud but becomes viscous on surfaces. It attracts flies and is nontoxic.
This seems more relevant now than ever…
NOFX, The Decline
https://youtu.be/pQzZna4h2q0
Hello friends. The dreaded and long awaiting blog on WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE CYBERSECURITY JOBS MARKET has arrived.
https://tisiphone.net/2025/04/01/lesley-what-happened-to-the-cybersecurity-skills-shortage/
I'm sorry.
The pcapng file format stores a ton of crazy metadata in your files. What exactly gets stored depends on what is used to create the pcapng file, but Wireshark and mergecap do reveal a bit about the computer used to create the pcap.
@netresec wrote a nice blog post about this a few weeks ago, including how to make regular pcap the default setting in wireshark (and Erik reached out to me to warn me about some pcaps I had shared publicly, I still need to update my git repo to remove said pcapng files...how annoying of a process it is to do this! So don't be a dummy like me, make pcap your default, and be cautious where you share pcapng files).
Did you know that there is a setting in Wireshark for changing the default save file format from pcapng to pcap? In Wireshark, click Edit, Preferences. Then select Advanced and look for the capture.pcap_ng setting. Change the value to FALSE if you want Wireshark to save packets in the pcap file form[...]
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
Lesley Carhart 
K. Reid Wightman 
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