networking

Installation and Hardening of Debian Web Server

Redirects to legacy blog post. These are the steps I took to set-up and harden a Debian web server before being placed into a DMZ and undergoing additional hardening before opening the port from the WWW to it. Most of the steps below are fairly simple to do, and in doing so, remove a good portion of the low hanging fruit for nasty entities wanting to gain a foot-hold on your server-network.

Running Wireshark as non-root user

Redirects to legacy blog post. This post is targeted at getting Wireshark running on Linux. If you’re a windows user, you can check out the Windows notes here.

Setup of Chromium, Burp Suite, Node.js to view HTTP on the wire

Redirects to legacy blog post. As part of my Node.js development I really wanted to see what was going over the wire from chromium-browser to my Node.js web apps.

OpenSSH from Linux to Windows 7 via tunneled RDP

Redirects to legacy blog post. In this article I’ll go over getting Kali Linux installed and set-up. I’ll go over a few of the packages in a low level of detail (due to the share number of them) that come out of the box. On top of that I’ll also go over a few programmes I like to install separately. In a subsequent article I’d like to continue with additional programmes that come with Kali Linux as there are just to many to cover in one go.

Quick walk through, of my UPS library

Redirects to legacy blog post. Part three of a three part series. On setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. In this post, we’ll be reviewing the library that performs the shutting down of our servers.

Preparing APC Smart-UPS 1500 clients

Redirects to legacy blog post. Part two of a three part series.

Preparing APC Smart-UPS 1500 for Critical Servers

Redirects to legacy blog post. Part one of a three part series on Setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. This post is essentially about setting up a Smart-UPS and it’s NMC (Network Management Card), as the project I embarked upon was a little large for a single post.

rsync over SSH from Linux workstation to FreeNAS

Redirects to legacy blog post. I’ve been intending for quite some time to setup an automated or at least a thoughtless one click backup procedure from my family members PC’s to a file server. Now if you put files directories in the place where we are going to rsync to, and run the command we’re going to setup, those new files directories will be deleted.

Metadata Exchange options for WCF

Redirects to legacy blog post. There are two options for publishing metadata from a WCF service. By default, the services metadata is not published. In order to make the services information about itself public, you must do either of the following.

Installation of SSH on 64bit Windows 7 to tunnel RDP

Redirects to legacy blog post. This post covers two scenarios.