What’s Causing Mike’s Indigestion Now? When the Cloud Goes Boom (March 12, 2026)

There’s something quietly therapeutic about watching Harrison Ford stumble through grief, bad decisions, and genuine human connection on Shrinking. It’s…

Mar 12 • Mike McPhee

December 2024

All I want for Christmas is Caldera 5.0

Well it has been some time since I have had an opportunity to log in and capture some thoughts - sorry about that!

Dec 13, 2024 • Mike McPhee

July 2024

Impact: When Attackers Just Want to Watch the World Burn

In our journey through the MITRE ATT&CK framework, we've explored how attackers gain access, establish persistence, and steal data. But what happens…

Jul 8, 2024 • Mike McPhee

Exfiltration: The Attacker's Great Escape with Your Data

In our Collection post, we examined how attackers collect valuable information within a compromised environment.

Jul 1, 2024 • Mike McPhee

June 2024

What's Causing Mike's Indigestion Now? We're obsessed with the wrong snowflakes (28 June 2024)

Good day, folks!

Jun 27, 2024 • Mike McPhee

Command and Control: This is Major Tom to Ground Control

In our last post, we explored how attackers gather valuable information through the Collection tactic. Once adversaries have a foothold and have…

Jun 25, 2024 • Mike McPhee

What’s causing Mike’s Indigestion now? Someone's entered the "find out" stage (20 June 2024)

Good day, folks!

Jun 20, 2024 • Mike McPhee

Collection: How Attackers Gather the Loot Before Being Caught

In last week's post, we tool at look at how attackers move laterally. They do this to get to their goals and to better entrench themselves. Whether the…

Jun 18, 2024 • Mike McPhee

What’s causing Mike’s Indigestion now? Do you recall, Central Park in Fall? (13 June 2024)

Good evening, folks!

Jun 13, 2024 • Mike McPhee

Lateral Movement: a ruthless pivot from invasion to infection!

It has been almost a month since my last MITRE ATT&CK Tactic-focused entry, and I apologize!

Jun 11, 2024 • Mike McPhee

May 2024

Discovery: Now what do we have here?

The 9th tactic in the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Matrix is a fun one.

May 16, 2024 • Mike McPhee

Credential Access: Why make logging in so easy?

When we look at the sheer number of vectors an adversary uses to compromise or breach their target, credential compromise is right up there with…

May 6, 2024 • Mike McPhee