by Tim Medin | Mar 28, 2018 | Press Releases
The German government has banned a hi-tech doll that has given U.S. privacy groups and Red Siege founder, Tim Medin, concerns for years. The My Friend Cayla doll, which remains on sale in the U.S., violates a portion of the German statute that “prohibits the...
by Tim Medin | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog Posts
In the previous post we discussed some of the limitations of Net commands. Most notably, the output limitation (doesn’t show all groups) and it doesn’t allow for flexible searching. In this post we’ll discuss the DS commands to get around these...
by Tim Medin | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog Posts
I’ve had a number of cases where the Windows “net user”, “net group”, and “net localgroup” have failed me. I’ve had SQLMap fail to give the last line of “net user” output, I’ve had “net group...
by Tim Medin | Jan 26, 2018 | Blog Posts
I use full disk encryption (FDE) on all my laptops and portable media. I like to have a very strong passphrase for these, one that is even stronger than that for my user accounts. Let’s be realistic, very very few people are going to use a 60 character...
by Tim Medin | Dec 26, 2017 | Blog Posts
I found a bug in one of my DirecTV devices in 2015 after I got DirecTV. DirecTV didn’t have a bug bounty program at that time so I used it as a demo in my classes. When AT&T bought DirecTV it then fell under AT&T’s bug bounty, which is awarded...
