This article walks you through the process of building your own publicly accessible Half-Life 2 Death Match server on CentOS 7 and should work with 8 too but that’s untested. There’s plenty that can go wrong in this process. See the bottom of this article for common problems and solutions.
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This article explains how to extract various Windows dumps of passwords from a target system. To follow along with this article, you’ll need to have administrative access to the target Windows machine, and any endpoint security will need to be tolerant of your activities. Any good AV will likely prevent
Read moreRecently 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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