Thank you whoever you are
Recent Learning in public
My First Malware Analysis
A colleague1 pinged to tell me he clicked a button in an email which he realised was not legit and that he may have done a bad thing. First of all, thank you for informing us security peeps and not hiding! This is how we all can be more secure. In my turn, i shall do my best to stay approachable and i’m grateful for anyone who steps forward in a security incident like this.
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TIL: Chrome Certificate errors can be useful
Today i learned, quite by accident, that the Chrome certificate error page can be quite useful! If you get an NET::ERR_CERT_something-or-the-other error message, you can click that NET::ERR_CERT... code. Your cursor won’t change, indicating that the text is clickable, but it will display the problematic certificate or cert chain in PEM format.
You can then copy the certificate. On your terminal, invoke the spell
pbpaste | openssl x509 -noout -text (replacing pbpaste with whatever command on Linux or Windows to paste the contents of the clipboard if so needed)
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