Recently 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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Windows 10 Post Install Setup
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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WiFi Penetration Testing with Ubuntu on USB Storage
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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What you need in a Firewall
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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More of Share an EC2 AMI Image with Another AWS Account
This article demonstrates how to share an image with another AWS account. For example, you have an EC2 that needs to be moved to another AWS account. If so, this article is for you. Start by logging into the source AWS account. This is the account where the EC2
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Multiple Google Routers in Bridge Mode – My Experience
This article discussed my experiences with the Google Home WIFI Router. Specifically, my experience trying to get multiple access points working on the same network in Bridge mode rather than NAT mode. The documentation states that a Google Home Router can’t be in Bridge mode and work with additional access
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Protecting Against AirCrack-NG
This is a short article focused on helping you protect your wireless network from hackers. The AirCrack-NG suite is the most common set of tools used to crack wireless networks. For that reason, we’re focused on that suite for this article. Other tools need to deal with the same wireless
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Why I Use pfSense Over Other Firewall Appliances
I’m not married to the idea of using any product over another. It’s not the branding, how nice it looks or how much it costs (although those things may have an impact) that sways me one way or another. It’s the use of technology. It’s the principle and philosophy of
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Google Home – My First Week With Google’s Home Automation
I’ve spent the past week installing, configuring, learning and experimenting with Google Home automation. For the most part it has been an easy exercise but it comes with serious frustrations. The frustrations aren’t to do with limitations in the capabilities but rather in the faults and unexpected behavior (and my
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Business Continuity Planning for Transactional Businesses
Business Continuity Planning is critical for transactional businesses more-so than non-transactional businesses. What do I mean by “transactional”? If you process things in real time such as sales of products or processing packages for shipment, you are transactional. The reason transactional businesses need to consider business continuity to a greater
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