To anticipate and prevent
Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 10.41.25 AM On the right you’ll see a screenshot I captured from today’s Apple event. One half of that image is an Apple staff member talking about the latest and greatest iPad Pro. On the other half of the image you’ll see… a Microsoft logo. At an Apple event? These two…
Read More “Microsoft showed off at an Apple event… oh and some new iDevices” »
512px-Envelope_font_awesome.svg Email, as a technology, has been around for longer than “The Web”. While one often hears about security for the web (in the form of encryption, tor, etc), rarely do people discuss email security. As with any technology there are many areas to “secure”, however this series will focus on outbound email security as…
2015-08-31 12_58_10-pfSense – Status_ Dashboard My home network has a domain name, so I don’t have to remember all the IP addresses of my various servers. However, I publish all the DNS information using AWS Route 53 since $0.50/month is much more palatable to me than running BIND. This works flawlessly until you get a…
Read More “Unblocking Private IPs from Public DNS under PFSense” »
[vSphere](http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists/341025702) In most networks, you will have dedicated hardware to function as your “edge” (firewall/router). This is typically for the best, but there are always cases where you can’t put out that dedicated hardware. Sometimes it’s for cost reasons and sometimes it’s for complexity. In my particular case, I was installing an ESXi server in…
Read More “Tutorial: Using VMWare ESXi and PFsense as a network firewall/router” »
2015-08-28 11_39_40-Telegram AWS Lambda Bot My favorite “SMS Alternative” app is Telegram Messenger. It’s simple, easy to use, has decent encryption (from what I understand), is very multi-platform, and has a lot of fun features. It is my sole method of communicating with some people and was recently used for a 15 person group text…
Read More “Tutorial: PoC Telegram Bot running in AWS Lambda” »
[vSphere](http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists/341025702) This week I picked up a project that got put down last month, to install ESXi on one of my psuedo-servers. This particular machine runs an ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard with an Intel Xeon processor. Normally, installing ESXi shouldn’t be that hard, unless your hardware isn’t on the HCL, in which case it can…