In the back of my mind are the recent attacks against Google and others by the Chinese government. I keep asking myself how I would setup and defend against such attacks, and more importantly mitigate them. The end goal of this exercise for me, is to limit Internet access to devices that have authenticated to [...]
I now and again add/delete websites and their subsequent databases too my server(s). I use the following script to backup the databases. Using this I don’t have to worry about remembering to change the script to capture a database or to stop looking for a database. The script (which runs as root) learns the databases [...]
As I tweeted earlier I was poking around my jail broken iPhone and discovered IP forwarding does work. I’ve been searching for ways to tether my iPhone to various computers. I was able to use OpenSSH and establish a SOCKS proxy yesterday. That works nicely and given the “Location” feature of OS X and the [...]
I know some sites trust their servers and let the servers talk to anywhere on the Internet or internally. Just had a thought, instead all servers should be blocked for all traffic except for business needed traffic. What about updates? The servers need to go fetch updates. (In those cases where the patches/updates are not [...]
The steps I use to create an ISO image on my Macs. ## make an iso on the command line ## use the exact slice, use df to check drutil status # look for Name: /dev/disk* diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk dd if=/dev/disk of=/Users/Shared/Software/name-of-iso bs=2048 # then test with finder/disk util/etc.
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