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Imperfect OpSec for your personal life

Imperfect OpSec for your personal life

If you can take a step back in time 10 or 20 years, you might remember these little round objects thrown at your house periodically. They showed up fairly reliably, roughly each day, and brought with them the tidings and news of the outside world. For you youngn’s out there, we called them “Newspapers“. The…

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Simple Personal Security tips for 2023

Simple Personal Security tips for 2023

In case you’re living under a rock, there is a hack or breach in the news seemingly every other week. Not to scare you, but if you’re in the world of information security, the reality is that there is a breach in the news every day. It’s scary, and I understand, but you can take…

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Pushing successful SSH logins to PushBullet

Screenshot_20160125-114003 On Friday I ran across Sandrino Di Mattia’s post “Posting successful SSH logins to Slack” which was very easy and a very nifty idea. Already most of my notifications from various systems (Datadog, Tutum, Twitter, etc) are gathered into a notification channel on Slack, so I jumped on the chance to try out this…

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Code

Please don’t give your laptop to a stranger

Who’s laptop is this? Who cares! It could be yours in just a few seconds. You’re saying to yourself “This is silly, I would never willingly give my laptop to a complete stranger (in a public setting)”. However people do “give away” their laptops, or attempt to do so on a daily basis. Just today…

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Hardware

“Bank grade security” used to mean something (Updated)

WinonaSavingsBankVault Recently Gizmodo ran a good, albeit lengthy, article titled “Here’s Why Your Bank Account Is Less Secure Than Your Gmail” on the topic of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and your bank. It also reminded me of another article from 2007 titled “Password Security – Or Lack There Of“. Sadly “bank grade security” used to mean…

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Stupid Companies

Using Cloudflare as a Banhammer

cloudflarelogo These days “Snowulf” has become a loosely knit network of sites and projects. Most of the hosting is for myself, projects I’m involved with, or friends. Since I already pride myself in keeping my server online for the Snowulf Blog, adding a few other sites to the same server isn’t much of an issue….

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