Category: Security
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pfSense install on Ubuntu
I’m looking forward to installing pfSense on my soon-to-arrive pico PC device, a little fanless unit with four gigabit interfaces. It’s been a long time since I had a proper stateless firewall to administer, and I’m hoping that the performance of this miniature monster will keep up in these COVID-19 ridden times. I notice that
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Replicating Computrace Using Reverse SSH Tunnels
Background At my work I was recently asked to investigate whether Computrace was available for Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and if so, install it. Having a remote wipe mechanism available is part of our Security Policy. For those of you reading this that haven’t heard of Computrace, it’s a clever little rootkit for Windows that will
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More Stallman
From Wikipedia : Spyware is a software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer’s consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer’s knowledge. “Spyware” is mostly classified into four types: system monitors, trojans, adware,
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Hacked
Well that was depressing. I checked my website for the first time today for a while and discovered that I’d been hacked. A now defaced Scaine.net was now displaying the picture of a popular horror icon and not a lot else. Judging from the Live HTTP headers, it looks like it just made a few
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Ubuntu in the Corporate
I’ve been using Ubuntu 11.04 in the corporate environment for over a year now and this post will attempt to summarise the frankly disappointing state of affairs that is “linux in the corporate environment”. Thumnbnails Such a little thing – getting a thumbnail for your images, videos or office documents. In Windows, once a directory
