Claudio Ramirez: Create an encrypted partition/usb disk
Update 2016/09/08: on recent Ubuntus (e.g. 16.04) you can use the graphical “disks” application to create a Luks+ext4 partiton. The defaults are sane. However, it’s still advisable to put random data...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Collecting Users Credentials from Locked...
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Collecting Users Credentials from Locked Devices“.It’s a fact: When a device can be physically accessed, you may consider it as compromised. And if the...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Clean Architecture diagrams
I’m happy to release a few Clean Architecture related diagrams into the public domain (CC0 1.0).These diagrams where created at Wikimedia Deutchland by Jan Dittrich, Charlie Kritschmar and myself for...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Finally took the time to get certificates
Finally took the time to use certificates for codeminded.be and pvanhoof.be. Also the SMTP at mail.codeminded.be should now have a somewhat good TLS situation, too. But of course, whoever needed tell...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Can Drupal outdo native applications?
I've made no secret of my interest in the open web, so it won't come as a surprise that I'd love to see more web applications and fewer native applications. Nonetheless, many argue that "the future of...
View ArticleJohan Van de Wauw: Foss4g.be - The Belgian conference on open-source...
Next week, the second edition of Foss4g.be, the Belgian conference on open-source geospatial software will take place in Tour and Taxis in Brussels.The conference will bring together developers and...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Varnish Cache 5.0 Released
The post Varnish Cache 5.0 Released appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This just got posted to the varnish-announce mailing list.We have just released Varnish Cache...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Autoptimize cache size: the canary in the coal mine
Copy/ pasted straight from a support question on wordpress.org;Auto-deleting the cache would only solve one problem you’re having (disk space), but there are 2 other problems -which I consider more...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: IP Address Open Source Intelligence for the Win
During the last edition of the Troopers security conference in March, I attended a talk about “JustMetaData”. It’s a tool developed by Chris Truncer to perform open source intelligence against IP...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Laissez-moi la nuit !
Pour Stoyan, mon ami et lecteur de ce blog, décédé le 8 septembre 2016.Laissez-moi la nuit !Depuis que je suis tout petit, J’ai été entouré et vous m’avez appris Que le soleil est source de toute vie....
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Traveling through Tuscany
Four weeks ago we went on a vacation in Tuscany. I finally had some time to process the photos and write down our memories from the trip.Day 1We booked a last-minute house in a vineyard called Fattoria...
View ArticleFabian Arrotin: CentOS Infra public service dashboard
As soon as you're running some IT services, there is one thing that you already know : you'll have downtimes, despite all your efforts to avoid those...As the old joke says : "What's up ?" asked the...
View ArticleClaudio Ramirez: Intel NUC 5CPYH and Ubuntu 16.04
I decided to move my home backup drives to ZFS because I wanted built-in file checksumming as a prevention against silent data corruption. I chose ZFS over BrtFS because I have considerable experience...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Go Hunt for Malicious Activity!
What do security analysts when they aren’t on fire? They hunt for malicious activity on networks and servers! A few days ago, some suspicious traffic was detected. It was an HTTP GET request to a URL...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Het gedeelde beroepsgeheim tussen artsen en politie
Ik dacht eerst een beknopt overzicht te maken, maar waarom post ik niet gewoon de hele zooi?Waarom blog ik dit? Omdat dit de randen van onze vrijheden raakt. Zijnde het medische geheim. Ik geloof niet...
View ArticleSven Vermeulen: Mounting QEMU images
While working on the second edition of my first book, SELinux System Administration - Second Edition I had to test out a few commands on different Linux distributions to make sure that I don't create...
View ArticleSven Vermeulen: We do not ship SELinux sandbox
A few days ago a vulnerability was reported in the SELinux sandbox user space utility. The utility is part of the policycoreutils package. Luckily, Gentoo's sys-apps/policycoreutils package is not...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: The transformation of Drupal 8 for continuous innovation
In the past, after every major release of Drupal, most innovation would shift to two areas: (1) contributed modules for the current release, and (2) core development work on the next major release of...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] SNMP Pwn3ge
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “SNMP Pwn3ge“.Sometimes getting access to company assets is very complicated. Sometimes it is much easier (read: too easy) than expected. If one of the...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Heads up: CentOS 5 goes end-of-life in 6 months
The post Heads up: CentOS 5 goes end-of-life in 6 months appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This is a friendly reminder to let you know that any CentOS 5 systems you still have running will stop receiving...
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