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I know what fail2ban does; it monitors the firewall logs and finds ip addresses that have too many failed logins to ssh; and then tells the firewall to drop packets from those addresses.
So is fail2ban an IPS?
Continue reading Is fail2ban an intrusion prevention system?
As a user of these products, how concerned do I have to be about who can see what I place in the system?
I don’t know who pays the bill and thus has access to everything in there, and I don’t know where the computers are tha… Continue reading Security and Microsoft Teams / Microsoft OneDrive / Share Point Online?
Wifi passwords are a pretty weak way to secure a Wifi Access point; is it possible to use a public / private key to secure traffic on a wifi access point which runs OpenWRT.
I know I can secure SSH with one, but what about t… Continue reading Can I use a public / private keypair to secure traffic on my wifi on OpenWRT?
I only want a bash shell in Windows 10 that runs faster and doesn’t have any of the quirks of git bash / MINGW64, like for instance all of that CRLF garbage.
Is there any security harm in installing it? I mean I’m sure de… Continue reading Are there any security hazards to installing Ubutnu for Windows 10?
I was working with a users computer yesterday because they complained that an MS-Access Database they were using said that an ODBC datasource was not accessible.
I went to change the settings on the ODBC data source (which was under the s… Continue reading How do you lock down a users access to ODBC settings in Windows 10? [closed]
My processor is supposed to support virtualization:
cpu.inf:5f63e534115a322c:IntelPPM_Inst.NT:10.0.17134.765:ACPI\GenuineIntel_-_Intel64
ACPI\GENUINEINTEL_-_INTEL64_FAMILY_6_MODEL_37_-_INTEL(R)_CORE(TM)_I5_CPU_______M_540__@… Continue reading If I turn off Windows Defender Credential Manager off in Windows 10 so I can run a virtual machine in Virtual Box, is that a bad idea?
This is a follow up to my other question…
Does Windows have a way to create a temporary RAM drive so that if you load sensitive information on to it, it goes away and doesn’t end up on your persistent storage?
(of course … Continue reading Is there a native way to make a RAM disk in Windows? [on hold]
Say one has to export database data to use in another tool, such as an Excel Spreadsheet or for use as a csv file with some other program.
There’s a problem with this, and that’s that it ends up in an unencrypted form on the… Continue reading Best Practices for exporting sensitive database data and transforming it whilist keeping it encrypted?
I was recently looking at a network in which the client-machines could access a webservice endpoint but could not ping it.
And there are other machines that can ping the webservice endpoint, but which do not utilize it. However, these othe… Continue reading In what situations should a node ping/not ping?
When a process runs in Windows, if you pass command line arguments to it, they are visible if the process is running, making the passing of plain-text sensitive data using this method a really bad idea.
How does one prevent … Continue reading How to pass command line arguments to putty without making them visible in powershell / cmd?