Author: Annoyed Engineer

  • The Brutus Botnet

    Chris Grube and I been tracking some bizarre brute force activity at work since Wednesday but we believe this botnet started attacking as early as March 15th. While brute force attacks are nothing new, this one has some uniqueness to it. One of which is the size of the botnet, it appears that after every…

  • Getting burned in the Cloud

    It has finally happened to me… I’ve finally made a “mistake” in Azure that costed me money… In my defense the default setting changed, and I didn’t notice it. The goal was to setup some backups in Azure with their cold storage. Pretty simple right? It’s super straightforward and I was up in running in…

  • Annoying Azure Bug

    Boy oh boy, did Azure piss me off this time. I’ll start by saying I tend to enjoy working in Azure over the other major cloud providers out there. But it’s fair to say, Azure has PLENTY of quirks. A while back, I was working with a client on a consulting gig I’m doing on…