WiFi Pineapple Pager & Distruptor v2

I have to be the first to order new gadgetry, so when the WiFi Pineapple Pager popped up for pre-order, I had to have one. Not only does it include Duckyscript Payloads it looks like a pager! Then a few days later I saw the DisrupterX v2, aka the FreqF**ker Ultra that can analyze, replay, or capture BLE signals. I've always been inquisitive about the frequencies around me, and I've owned two previous versions of the WiFi Pineapple, so I think this one will be a gamechanger. 

I scored the Founder Edition Pineapple before they were sold out, and that should be in later this year, and the DistruptorX v2 is on the way from Delhi, India currently. I can't wait for either. 

School starts back Monday, with confusion already in my schedule. I got an email stating I had dropped a class, and when I checked my schedule, it had been changed to distance learning, but upon emailing the instructor, the class is in fact in person at the time stated previously. The courseware order was cancelled and then re-ordered, so I'm hoping I have courseware for the class on Monday. Ready to get a few classes out of the way so I can finish this thing up.

Outside of school I'm continuing for my certification training for Google Cybersecurity certification, and hoping to receive the CISSP certification scholarship I applied for last month.

Work has been busier on all fronts than needed, and I'm struggling to keep up with work again. Busy is better than not busy though, so it may be time for a price increase. I may have to fire myself for a few weeks in the near future in order to get my own home lab setup.

Fall Semester

Fall semester starts on August 18th with three classes. I'll be taking Public Speaking, Math, and Local Area Networks. 

Outside of school business is staying consistent enough that I have absolutely no free time with focusing on finishing the Google Cybersecurity Certificate through Per Scholas before a possible scholarship for the CISSP certification that I hope to get accepted into mid September. 

The security landscape is changing rapidly and staying up to date while taking classes based on outdated exams and material is becoming ever more difficult. It would be nice if schools could take an agile approach to courseware and content to actually teach relevant material. 

At some point in the near future I plan to put my home lab into operation and start working with some frameworks to learn more about the governance side of security. Still in the planning phase on cloud based services to augment the on-prem hardware. Also starting a playbook to help with security incidences I currently work with as well as a few other projects that have been on the back burner for quite some time. Looking forward to exploring and becoming involved more the digital forensics world. 

I finished Data Communications with a 100 and Webpage Development with a 98 to end Summer semester. I'll be taking Intermediate Algebra, Local Area Networks, and Public Speaking for Fall Semester. I should make make President's List for Part-Time Students Summer semester for a second in a semester in a row.

I've been completing the Coaching sessions, and hope to have a conference dialogue session at a coming conference to start things off with the NCSA's Cyber Ready Professionals program. I've also started the Google Cybersecurity career certificate, and hope to test for CompTIA Network+ as soon as I can get a few practice tests done. I've also gain several great digital forensics resources through the last phase of the Cyber Ready Professionals program that I intend to get more involved with to focus on forensics and find a niche thereof (Leaning towards Windows and Mobile forensics with OSINT.

Business has been unusually busy, most likely because I've been busy with school and other projects. I've got some ideas brewing, but haven't had much time to play with the ideas to produce any sort of proof of concept on any of them.

Security is booming, and it seems to evolve on an hourly basis rather than a daily basis. Staying up-to-date on the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures of attackers can be nearly impossible. I'm amazed daily on how far adversarial attacks have progressed in a relatively short period of time (25 years or so). The ability to chain vulnerabilities together to exploit a very specific set of systems or people is amazing to me, and the supply chain attack methods never cease to keep me reading.