Yep, this is my little slice of the net, hopefully some of the information here is as useful for you as it has been for me.
(please don't ask what that creature is, I have no idea, just something that the AI spat out)
For several years now I have routinely presented a series of cyber security tips to help people be safer both in their work and personal lives. Several colleagues and associations have suggested the tips are so useful that I should create an online version (perhaps even videos) for them. This series takes each of the tips from my presentation and attempts to recreate the information in article form.
This article is part of my Cybersecurity Hygiene Series - I recommend reading the background information about the series first to understand how these tips are structured. See this post: Cyber Security Hygiene.
Discussions about cybersecurity frequently include the word Trust. It may be stated on it's own or as part of other terms such as "Trust No-one" or "Zero-Trust" or "Trust but Verify"... I recently spent some time thinking about trust and how it relates to cybersecurity. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that a bit of a deep-dive into who we are trusting (or not trusting) was well worth the effort.
I have been playing with Stable Diffusion for over a year now and seen a lot of erroneous information online about how to train LoRAs (Low-Rank Adaptation). I've specifically been experimenting with taking 3D game characters and training LoRA models based on these game character images to create photo realistic images after they are passed through the Machine Learning Model (because it's really not AI at all!).
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a laptop was whirring, even those with a mouse;
The screens were all flashing with an eerie red glow
All Files Encrypted, All your secrets we know!
All the presents were nestled all snug in the sleigh
But poor Santa had no clue with whom they should stay.
After moving his list to a computer based tracker
It's all now encrypted, and in the hands of some hacker
After all the other network enhancements I have been working on, it was time to get some centralized logging going on. While I considered Logging Made Easy (LME) from CISA - this looked like just an abstraction on top of the ELK stack. Since I already had implemented that years ago, I elected for the latter and the die was cast.
