64° Adventures

Personal blog with posts about technology, security, photography, and travel

Applications and Tools I can't live without

Over the years, I have used thousands of different programs and software. Some of them I've fallen in love with, and here are a few.

Starting the Private Pilot Licence PPL(A) training

Now it finally happened. I signed up for a Private Plane Licence course (PPL/A), something I've been dreaming about for probably 10-15 years.

Structural Ridgeline for Hammocks

A good night's sleep in a hammock requires a structural ridgeline, and we are creating one.

Automated Phishing Analysis with Shuffle - Part I

The purpose of this post is to describe how to use Open Source tools to automatically analyse phishing emails that users (internal / external) has been sent to pre-defined mailbox. The emails are automatically scanned, and any URLs that are discovered are passed on to third-party providers for analysis.

Docker loves Splunk

This article may have been about running Splunk Enterprise in a Docker container, but it is actually about sending logs from Docker containers to Splunk Enterprise on-premises or Cloud deployments. By default, Docker logs JSON-formatted data to the filesystem. This is adequate for simpler systems, but log management (and viewing) becomes less practicable for more complex ones. Sending Docker log direct to the Splunk SIEM system is one technique to make things easier for the admins.