I am retiring this social media account. Find me as @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
Orlando, FL
Joined November 2008
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
New Blog Post!
DFIR (Digital Forensics & Incident Response) Related Events for Beginners - September, 2021
Includes:
-Conferences
-CTFs/Challenges
-Webinars
-Job Fairs
This is geared toward beginners but there's something for all skill levels.
dfirdiva.com/dfir-related-ev…
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Hal Pomeranz retweeted
It's always okay for anyone (whatever "role" or level or background ... ) to courteously ask what a word or acronym means or just for more context. Try it sometime and you might be surprised by the answer and/or learn something new! ... Voice mail, right? :D
Some people forget how long it takes to learn cyber as a language. I don't mean coding, I mean the industry speak we have become so comfortable spewing. You once didn't know what a VM was. Be nice to people who don't know wtf you are talking about, and don't be a bully.
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Apparently I've been "authorized" by one of my clients for billable hours over the holiday weekend. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. #DFIRLife
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But now the world has changed, and I'm migrating to an environment that is much more aligned with my current customer base. But if any IAAS providers out there ever need some heavy lifting on email and DNS, feel free to call. I've been in that game since 1986!
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And from that day until today I never stopped running email and DNS (and web) services. It was a fair amount of work, but I always learned a lot.
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Eventually I started my own consulting firm in 1997 and I did a lot of consulting around email in DNS in those heady dot-com years. And of course I ran my own email and DNS services for my business and personal stuff, as well as for friends and family.
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This was mid-1993 and probably the last time a reasonably valuable domain name was transferred for free because it was the right thing to do.
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I talked to their network admin and he said "Oh sure! We just got done transitioning off that domain. Here let me transfer it to you." I got the transfer authorization in my mailbox in seconds. He didn't even want the free laser printer I was prepared to offer.
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"QMS" was was Quantum Medical Systems of Issaquah, WA. I figured I'd call and see if they still needed the domain. When I dialed their main number, the receptionist answered, "HP Medical Imaging" and I knew this was going to work!
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After NASA I went to work for QMS (they made laser printers) at the old Imagen facility-- it was my first solo Sys Admin gig. Our site had the Internet feed for the whole company but we were using the domain "AQM" (stock ticker) because "QMS" was taken.
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Back in that era the root name servers were actual physical machines. Our NASA project ran the root name server at the "Federal Internet eXchange West Coast" (FIX West) inside a secure building at Ames. In those days you could run a root name server on a Sun Sparcstation.
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I jobbed around quite a bit, and eventually ended up working at NASA Ames in the early 1990s. As part of the Network Operations group, I managed the DNS and also managed to melt down the entire network when my automation scripts produced broken zone files. That was a Bad Day.
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And that's how you start down the slippery slope of being the local email admin. You were stupid enough to volunteer and to care that things worked. Bell Labs was also the job that got me into Information Security. Fun times!
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Oh and we were replacing the old 9600 baud Datakit serial infrastructure with 10baseT (and in some cases 10base2) TCP/IP. The old-timers wanted to to UUCP over TCP/IP and I said "Hell no! Welcome to SMTP!" This was 1989.
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But all that experience with UUCP and Sendmail really helped out at my first job doing computer support at Bell Labs Holmdel. We were replacing Sys V VAX systems with these new Sun Sparc machines.
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