There is talk of weakening Cybersecurity in an attempt to make it easier for authorities to listen in on criminal communications. The two obvious arguments against this are a) weakening security hurts everyone, and b) criminals will simply shift to other methods of communication. I will discuss both of those
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/07/australia_consi.html#comments I’ll be writing more on this in the coming days. I honestly hope this is not how it plays out. Share This:
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This article demonstrates how easy it is to limit users SSH’ing into your system to just Rsync and/or SCP. We’re using CentOS 6 for this demo. For example, suppose you want to allow users (or a script on a remote system) to SCP or Rsycn files to and from a
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In this article, I am arguing that a regulated Information Technology industry will result in higher quality systems and software and a new focus on security. Australia is about to create a new cyber warfare division within the Australian Defence Force. Whilst the details are still secret, the objectives will
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This article covers server backups and guides you through the process of designing a backup plan. The process will result in a data backup plan that the business is comfortable with. How much data and time can your business lose without damaging your reputation and income? When a disaster hits,
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If you are trying to enable PIN or Fingerprint login options and you find that these options are disabled (with the message “Some settings are managed by your organization”), this is because it is done by Microsoft design. To resolve this you need to enable the “Turn on convenience PIN
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This article explains how to add new maps to Minecraft. We’re working with a Linux server and we’re going to download maps from public download sites. We’re starting with a working Linux Mincraft server. See how to start from scratch with Minecraft on Linux here “https://www.agix.com.au/minecraft-server-linux-centos-7/”. So far i’m yet
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This article shows how to run a Minecraft server on CentOS or Redhat 7. We’re going to download Minecraft, put it in the right place, open the right firewall ports, start Minecraft with sensible settings and run it in a state that we can change things later without having to
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Hi all, If you are getting a Reset Node Error when you are opening your WSUS console on Windows Server 2012 R2, first attempt to restart all associated Windows services (Update Services, WID / SQL, etc.). If that has not fixed it, open a command prompt with elevated privileges and
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This article walks you through adding a volume to a CentOS 7 / Redhat 7 EC2 while it’s running. In this example we’re going to replace the “/var/log” directory with a larger one to prevent the system from running out of disk space due to large logs. Log into AWS
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