Linux

Greetings! Today we're going to explore an extraordinary Linux distribution that too few have heard of - NixOS. The Revolutionary Duo: Nix…

I recently had trouble finding a solution to issue public SSL certs for an OCI Load Balancer with automatic renewal. I was hoping the OCI…

In this post I will be quickly running through the basic setup and configuration of BIRD, an open-source routing protocol daemon for…

In this post I will be running through a step-by-step walk-through on how to setup your personal machine to mine BTC using the brilliant…

MTR MTR (My Traceroute) is a fantastic diagnostic tool that can outright replace the more common ping and traceroute verification wherever…

This post will run through a simple one-off Ansible playbook of mine that I use to install and configure SNMP on newly-provisioned CentOS…

Cisco Software Manager (CSM) is an orchestration and management platform for Cisco ASR9K IOS-XR devices that provides a framework for the…

So your shiny new Cisco device now comes with some added toys, such as a fully-fledged built-in Linux environment complete with YUM package…

Rolling out new VLANs across a network can be time consuming. The Ansible playbook documented in this post automates the configuration and…

I recently set out to find a solution for receiving push notifications on my mobile device for important events on my servers. There are…

Hi guys! In this post I am demonstrating the use of Ansible's Jinja2 templating module, and the applications it can be utilized for within a…

This is a quick glimpse at a production application of Ansible to automate your infrastructure Access-Control-Lists. Access-Control-Lists…

Just a quick one today, here is a look at cracking Linux user passwords using John the Ripper. John was designed in an age of central…

This blog post is about SNMPv3. As many Engineers familiar with SNMP will know, SNMP is a powerful protocol that can divulge a lot of…

A few months back I moved away from NGINX and made the switch to Traefik as my SkyeNet.tech reverse proxy. A colleague had recently made the…

Creating a virtual environment will limit anything you do to that environment only, and no dependency installations will escape onto your…

Today I will be looking at Outline VPN: one of the simplest VPN solutions yet, straight from the Google family! Created by Jigsaw, a younger…

This post will be a mixture of my own personal VIM cheatsheets, along with a high-level overview of the Vim text-editor. Text-Editors are a…

Of late, I have found myself distro-hopping very frequently on my various personal machines (not to mention breaking my installs way too…

Here I will be discussing another WiFi attack vector; deauthentication attacks. Within the IEEE 802.11 standard, forever branded unoffically…

For this post we will be looking at how the WiFi protocol (IEEE 802.11) allows alien devices to view network paramaters prior to connecting,…

Nmap is a highly popular, and very powerful network security tool. Nmap is used for network mapping and port scanning in the discovery of…

TAR (Tape Archive) is used aggregate files and directories into a single file for easily backing up and moving. When unpacked, the files and…

The phrase "Everything is a file" has been used to desscribe Unix and Linux for a long time, and is profoundly characteristic of the…

PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) is, as the name suggests, a Python Wrapper for managing API access to Reddit. PRAW takes control over the…

In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…

In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…

A very powerful tool I would like to mention in this entry is Clogin. Clogin, or Cisco-Login, is a part of the RANCID toolkit, or the…

In 1969, a remote division of AT&T’s Bell Labs were hard at work developing a breakthrough in computer science; a time-sharing operating…