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Terry Losansky is a software engineer, living in Snoqualmie, Washington. Past and present interests include martial arts, wine, travel, scuba instruction, sailing, baking, and home construction.

Rapid7 InsightVM API and Searching on Assets or Vulnerabilities

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Recently, I spent far too much time looking for what should have been obvious. Over the years I have filled the roll of a specialized-generalist, a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none developer and technical architect. In simple terms, I connect information from different systems and processes to solve or measure business issues, then move on. I especially rely on […]

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Remote Work Cybersecurity Report, May 7, 2022

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I have seen stunningly bad habits from IT professionals regarding access, authentication, and general computing security. My favorites include using administrator auto-logon without a password, passwords such as “8675309” or just “password”, freely shared domain-level administrative accounts, the cliché sticky-notes on a monitor, and not updating known vulnerable software because something bad might happen. Similarly,

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Remote Work Cybersecurity Report, April 24, 2022

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This week is a hodge-podge rollup of warnings, threats, and vulnerabilities. There is something for everyone, bloggers, website administrators, and any remote-work-from-home-digital-nomad with a side-hustle. A funny thing about security vulnerabilities, defects and flaws may exist in products for years until revealed by any number of involved parties. They sit silent waiting for exploitation by

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Security Vulnerabilities Affecting Remote Workers April 15th, 2022

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From April 11th, 2022, to the 15th, the week ended with twenty-eight new “exploits in the wild”, as reported by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Exploits ranged from weaknesses on current products in use to older unsupported and end-of-life devices. Here are ones I thought were particularly relevant to the remote working digital

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