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Brian Davis

“Support” for Open Source Software

“Support”, “End of Support”, and “End of Life” notices are an interesting topic when dealing with Open Source software. If we look at some…

Jan 5

“Support” for Open Source Software

Jan 5

Brian Davis

Programming Language Performance Comparisons

Not long ago I was reading a Medium article about a performance comparison between Go and Rust programming languages and a few things…

Jul 27, 2023

Jul 27, 2023

Brian Davis

Hosted Gitlab License Validation Vulnerability

DISCLAIMER: This information is only for educational purposes. This is no longer covered under the scope of the bug bounty program however…

Dec 22, 2022

Hosted Gitlab License Validation Vulnerability

Dec 22, 2022

Brian Davis

Why you should be using Secretive for SSH keys

If you use a Mac, you should be using Secretive for managing your SSH keys. Secretive uses the Mac Secure Enclave to generate and store SSH…

Sep 5, 2022

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec59b0b31ff/web

Sep 5, 2022

Brian Davis

Cost-based Password Hashing

After spending some time at the password village at DEFCON 30 and reading an article several weeks ago about a new vulnerability in both…

Aug 21, 2022

Cost-based Password Hashing

Aug 21, 2022

Brian Davis

SSL for local development

There have been many guides written about using SSL for local development but all of them work off the concept of creating a self-signed…

Jul 30, 2022

SSL for local development

Jul 30, 2022

Brian Davis

Securely storing secrets in Git

Secrets management and secure storage of secrets as code is always an interesting topic. There are various tools that exist for storing…

Jul 19, 2022

Jul 19, 2022

Brian Davis

AWS Instance Profile for local development

There have been several times that I have wanted to test something specific to AWS instance profile but the script or application I was…

Jul 15, 2022

Jul 15, 2022

Brian Davis

Checksec

Checksec is a shell script that can be used to check the properties of binary files in Linux. This can be used to check for several…

Jul 10, 2022

Checksec

Jul 10, 2022

Brian Davis

Image signing validation on K8s

In the previous post, we talked about using AWS KMS with Cosign to sign images before pushing them to an untrusted container registry and…

Jul 5, 2022

Image signing validation on K8s

Jul 5, 2022

Brian Davis

Brian Davis

Distinguished Engineer, VMware by Broadcom | Security & Compliance | System Design | views are mine https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdavis001/

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