Posts in the Category: Blog
By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on July 14th, 2018
Information extracted from here.
Go to Forris DNS tab and make sure that “Use forwarding” is not checked, save.
Grab and convert the needed ssh certificate into Omnia. From /root :
wget https://www.digicert.com/CACerts/DigiCertECCSecureServerCA.crt
openssl x509 -inform der -in …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 2nd, 2018
Installing Wireless Access Point
Step 1: install Raspbian
Step 2: install necessary software and edit dhcp configuration
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq hostapd speedtest-cli
sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq
sudo systemctl stop hostapd
sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf
Step 3: Insert …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on December 31st, 2016
Kubernetes and its lite version – Minikube – are the traditional way of managing a group of docker containers.
They are not intuitive and it takes a while to feel comfortable using them.
Kubernetes may still be …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on December 22nd, 2016
ZAP seems like a very good tool for pen testing, but also for debugging HTTP requests between microservices.
The best thing is that it can be run with docker.
An example of setting it up as …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on November 3rd, 2016
This project -> https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/ seems very interesting.
The technology does not seem mature yet, but there is certainly a lot of value in it.
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on November 2nd, 2016
This is a good tutorial on starting with Kubernetes and a a fast way of deploying new applications into the cloud -> http://kubernetes.io/docs/hellonode/
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on July 27th, 2016
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport ! –dports 80,443,22 -j DROP
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on July 17th, 2016
Yet another attack, related to ‘ragenergy’, has caused the website to be blacklisted by Google and FortiGuard.
It took a while to clean it up in my free time.
Useful tools: fail2ban, monit, nginx.
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 20th, 2016
It can be useful in certain cases to limit the frequency of certain request as described here.
Key code:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -i eth0 -m state –state NEW -m recent \
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 19th, 2016
Some South African IPs have been SYN flooding my website today.
The proposed solution was to enable SYN cookies in /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=2048
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=3
When one works over ssh, ‘sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf’ can be used to activate the changes.
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