Monitoring Your Racks for Cheap
When we were setting up our locking cabinets at the new data center for my job I was wondering how to actively monitor the security around our cabinets. Being that only myself and the data center staff...
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I found the setup and configuration of OpenVPN to be very easy and straight forward. Much easier than setting up IPSec for sure. It was as easy as doing a yum install openvpn then editing the...
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Locking Down Access to Scalr Web Interface
I wanted to touch briefly on the security concerns for having Scalr accessible via the Internet. If you are running your own install of Scalr this is an important factor before even adding the first...
View ArticleCloud security: Is it raining in the cloud?
SC has a good write up on cloud computing security: Cloud computing, as least as a concept, is being driven largely by economics. It is generally less costly to run applications, add capacity and...
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Iceland and the New Need for Free Speech and Cryptography
The name Wikileaks has become part of the general vernacular ever since their release of the 91k+ documents related to the US war in Afghanistan. But another related topic has only been touched upon...
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Safe and Secure Browsing Through Home Computer
I have found a little OpenSSH switch to be one of my best friends. If I am at a strange client network, cafe, or conference I use “-D” to make me feel warm and fuzzy all over. In OpenSSH if you use...
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Protecting Your Privacy in a Selfie World
In today’s world where we post pictures of ourselves and pretty much everything around us there is the known risk of people being able to track you by the EXIF data with GeoTagging. But now a picture’s...
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What Your DNS Says About You
I know many people that just type in the usual Google public DNS when they need to add one to a computer or server. It’s easy right!? Just remember 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 it’s a no brainer! But what...
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Safe and Secure Browsing Through Home Computer
I have found a little OpenSSH switch to be one of my best friends. If I am at a strange client network, cafe, or conference I use “-D” to make me feel warm and fuzzy all over. In OpenSSH if you use...
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