Category: Security
Log4j is a Java library for logging error messages in applications and is a critical security vulnerability with a severity score of 10 out of 10. The high score …
According to Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023, a future Windows Update in 2020 will make changes to LDAP Signing (LDAPS) and will require connections to use LDAPS instead of the …
Docker is a great alternative to virtualization, especially in the case of Linux if you don’t need a GUI. Most of the popular Kali Linux pentest tools are command-line …
Everything seems to be moving to “the cloud” these days, and you have a few options such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS to name a few. Depending on …
If you followed my previous guides for LEMP Install NGINX PHP7 MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 Server then you probably installed NGINX from the Ubuntu repo. Unfortunately, the version in …
For general instructions on how to Force Encryption on a SQL Server Instance, follow Microsoft KB Artcile How to enable SSL encryption for an instance of SQL Server by …
With the recent spread of the #WannaCry (Update 6/27/17: and #Petya) ransomware over the past week, the IT community has been in a frenzy to patch vulnerable systems that …
Even though my network has NetBIOS disabled in my Windows environment, including on the Windows DHCP server, the Mac OS X computers on the network still want to send …
MongoDB is “a document database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability”. In this chapter of our InfoSec System Hardening series, we’ll walk you through some of …
The next segment in our InfoSec System Hardening series is how to harden an NGINX Web Server. NGINX is an alternative to the popular Apache Web Server on Linux. …