Ahmed Musaad

I am a senior security engineer, a programmer, and a hobbyist system administrator. I enjoy learning new things, solving challenging problems and writing about things I find interesting.

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Useful Tools (1)

Ahmed Musaad

Every day I come across a multitude of tools that do this or that, and while a lot of them are overrated, there are many useful tools that help me enhance my productivity. In this series of posts, I share these tools with you.

2 min read Dec 29, 2019

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On Scapegoating CISOs

Ahmed Musaad

After a major breach, it's often the CISO that falls on their sword and finds themselves looking for work. Do you think this a good display of accountability, or a damaging form of scapegoating?

2 min read Nov 20, 2019

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iVerify Security App for iPhone

Ahmed Musaad

Trails of Bits recently released a new security app for iPhone (iVerify). An easy to use the app with great user experience and informative guides that helps you improve the security of your iPhone in a few minutes.

1 min read Nov 17, 2019

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Paul Graham on Schedules

Ahmed Musaad

A meeting in the morning can ruin any chance of doing something productive before lunch, and the same thing goes for meetings after lunch, they reduce the possibility of completing bigger tasks in the afternoon.

2 min read Nov 7, 2019

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Hack.lu 2019 - Day (3)

Ahmed Musaad

It's the last day of Hack.lu. I am a bit exhausted, arrived a bit late and missed the first session of the day. Nonetheless, it was a great day, filled with learning and networking.

3 min read Oct 26, 2019

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Hack.lu 2019 – Day (2)

Ahmed Musaad

The second day of Hack.lu is often the longest since it includes the social events at the end which can go on well into the night. This day was no different, it started early in the morning and ended just before ten o'clock.

5 min read Oct 24, 2019

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Hack.lu 2019 - Day (1)

Ahmed Musaad

I am in Luxembourg for a few days attending three different information security events that are part of the LuxSecurityWeek…

5 min read Oct 22, 2019

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Weekend Learning (1)

Ahmed Musaad

Recently, Microsoft published a great set of short video courses covering different topics within the .NET ecosystem, If you are interested in learning .NET, these might be a great place to start.

1 min read Sep 29, 2019

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Trying Apple Pay

Ahmed Musaad

I was standing at the checkout lane at Clas Ohlsen, patiently waiting for my turn to pay for something I picked. I started fiddling with my phone and that's when it dawned on me, why not try the Apple Pay and see if it's as simple as Apple claims it is.

2 min read Sep 26, 2019

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DoH with Firefox and dnswarden

Ahmed Musaad

Disclaimer: DoH with ad-blocking won’t block 100% of the ads. A week ago, Mozilla published a blog post outlining…

3 min read Sep 14, 2019

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Monitoring NVD Feeds using NVD-Alerts

Ahmed Musaad

Part of my daily job is to keep an eye on new vulnerabilities and part of that is sifting through the NIST NVD feeds which can be exhausting and time-consuming as they contain a lot of information that might not be relevant to our work at all so I wrote a script to help me do this faster.

2 min read Aug 7, 2019

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GitHub Student Developer Pack

Ahmed Musaad

If you are a computer science student, this pack is an excellent resource for you. It will give you a fantastic set of tools and resources that will make your life easier, and you don't have to pay anything to take advantage of those benefits, so what are you waiting for?

2 min read Jul 3, 2018