Author Archives: Manny Fernandez

I have been in the networking and security field for over 27 years. I started working for resellers back in the Novell days. I obtained my CNE, Master CNE, GroupWise CNE and later moved on to Microsoft with the MCSE. I have obtained numerous industry certifications from Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, RSA, Fortinet, Linux and other. I have worked on every firewall produced since the 1990's from Novell's Border Manager to IP Tables to FortiOS and everything in-between. I have either migrated to or from all of these platforms. It is my passion. I love what I do so I do not consider it work. Today I work for a manufacturer. By far, I enjoy this side much more so hope to continue doing so.

Apple Spotlight not allowing typing

OK the other day, I noticed that when I typed ⌘ ␣ (or command space) on my macOS Sierra, the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 26, 2017

Future Crimes By Marc Goodman

The book started off OK however the book is riddled with inaccuracies and the author takes many liberties. First of…

By Manny Fernandez

April 3, 2017

Data Breaches – February 2017

Below are the breaches for February 2017 that were made public. If you have accounts with any of there services/companies…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2017

Staying Safe On-Line in 2017

Regarding smoke detectors in your home, “they” say you should change the batteries in these devices when the time changes…

By Manny Fernandez

January 30, 2017

Persistent VPN Profiles in AnyConnect

If you are like me that connects to a multitude of customer's networks using AnyConnect, you know the headache of…

By Manny Fernandez

January 24, 2017

Data Breaches – January 2017

Below are the breaches for January 2017 that were made public. If you have accounts with any of there services/companies…

By Manny Fernandez

January 22, 2017

Uninstalling Web Security from AnyConnect for Mac

You ever had that annoying Web Security pop up using AnyConnect? I did and I kept saying to myself “…

By Manny Fernandez

January 22, 2017
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Domain Password Audit Tool

[embed width="480" height="270"]http://youtu.be/nqrYBJI5aBI[/embed]Here is a great video by some folks @ Black Hills Information Security http://www.blackhillsinfosec.com

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2017

Data Breaches – December 2016

Below are the breaches for December 2016 that were made public. If you have accounts with any of there services/companies…

By Manny Fernandez

December 23, 2016

VPNs on Fortinet Fortigate

  Yesterday I had to troubleshoot a bunch of VPNs on a Fortigate. It was a migration from ASA to…

By Manny Fernandez

November 26, 2016

Data Breaches October / November 2016

ORGANIZATION:FriendFinder Networks DATE OF BREACH:October 2016 DATE MADE PUBLIC:November 14,2016 RECORDS AFFECTED: 412 Million DATA COMPROMISED: FriendFinder Networks, the parent…

By Manny Fernandez

November 18, 2016

Creating a Certificate Signing Request on the ASA

First things first; check the time on your ASA.  You can do this with the following command: show clock If…

By Manny Fernandez

November 1, 2016

Weebly.com Breach

ORGANIZATION: Weebly.com DATE OF BREACH: February 2016 DATE MADE PUBLIC: October 20, 2016 RECORDS AFFECTED: 43 Million San Francisco-based web…

By Manny Fernandez

October 29, 2016

Cisco ACS 5.8 Automated Backups

  Today I attempted to configure our ACS server to backup to our new SFTP server. I deployed the SFTP…

By Manny Fernandez

October 25, 2016

Personal Information Security Hygiene Program

With today’s threat landscape ever increasing, it is important to practice good InfoSec Hygiene at work but equally important at…

By Manny Fernandez

October 21, 2016

QuickHash Multi-Platform Hashing Tool

Hashing files, and more importantly validating the hashes of files you download is very important.  There is a long list…

By Manny Fernandez

October 14, 2016

Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac

While using my rsync option works for me, there are a few things it lacks.  I had recently purchased a…

By Manny Fernandez

October 13, 2016

Inception Used To pwn a Laptop

This is an excellent video showing a laptop getting pwned using Inception.  https://github.com/carmaa/inception [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="http://www.infosecmonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Replicating-a-NSA-Spy-Tool-CYBERWAR-Extra-Scene.mp4"][/video]  

By Manny Fernandez

October 11, 2016

MailTags in macOS Sierra

To follow up to my previous blog post regarding my workflow, I wanted to share a specific piece of that…

By Manny Fernandez

October 11, 2016

US Cert – SB16-284: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 3, 2016

This is a share from US-Cert's website. The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have…

By Manny Fernandez

October 10, 2016

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