Recently the Australian Government, through the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology put out a request for participation in an open discussion relating to “strengthening Australia’s cyber security regulations and incentives”. This article is my view on how we can respond effectively. You can
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Windows 10 Post Install Setup
We don’t tend to install Windows very often these days. It seems to be far more stable than the old days and it mostly just works. But from time to time we do need to install it fresh and there’s a list of things we need to do to make
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Synology High Disk Utilization – An Answer
This article explains the primary reason for high disk utilization on the Synology NAS. In this example, we’re using the Synology DS720plus model. It has a 2 disk RAID1 configuration. The disks are 3.5 inch mechanical disks that honestly aren’t that great to begin with. Coupling that with the Synology
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WiFi Penetration Testing with Ubuntu on USB Storage
This article demonstrates how to use Ubuntu booted from a USB disk to do WIFI penetration testing. Why would you want to do this? If you have Windows on your laptop and need to use Aircrack-NG, you’ll need to fight with wireless adapter driver issues. So you’ll try Kali Linux
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What you need in a Firewall
If you’re not filtering your internet traffic, you have a router, not a firewall. The good news is that most firewalls have features that can go a long way to protecting your IT and business resources. Let’s start with the different kinds of firewalls and their use-cases. A “packet filter”
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Securely Wipe Disk and Try to Recover the Contents
This article demonstrates how to securely delete files and all content from a disk, and then attempt to recover files form that disk. Warning: There is a risk you’ll make a mistake and wipe the wrong disk. So be careful. Identify the disk you want to work with: lsblk For
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Kubernetes (MicroK8s) Part 4 – Microk8s in High Availability
The good news is that Microk8s can now be deployed in a multi-node architecture. And it’s simple to do. This video “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNT5uEeJBSw” is a nice demonstration. It uses a floating IP between the cluster nodes that removes the need to use a load balancer in front of your cluster. Start
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Join Windows 10 to Azure AD (365)
If you have a “Work or School” Office 365 account, you’re likely able to use it as your Windows Domain service, allowing you go join your Windows 10 Pro (or higher, but not Home) to it as a domain member much like you would with an on-prem domain controller We’ll
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More of Share an EC2 AMI Image with Another AWS Account
This article demonstrates how to share an image with another AWS account. For example, you have an EC2 that needs to be moved to another AWS account. If so, this article is for you. Start by logging into the source AWS account. This is the account where the EC2
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Fail2Ban with MySQL Database for IP Blacklisting
This article demonstrates how to configure Fail2Ban to use a MySQL (or MariaDB, etc) as the storage repository for IP blocking records. This allow multiple Fail2Ban services (running on multiple servers) to report and use a central IP blocking repository. A little context. In this article, we’re installing everything on
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