security
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Security
Receive alerts when user connects or disconnects from RDP
If you administer a forward facing terminal server or even if you have an RDP connection setup on your home Internet connection for quick access to your home network, then it serves as extra piece of mind to have a…
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Security
How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM
There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM.  While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such as Untangle, it is still very easy to figure out.…
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Security
How to Increase Home Network Security
Let’s face it, these days, our digital security is under attack just about anywhere we are and access our data. Â However, we may not think about security when we are at home. Â After all, home is our private place, our…
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Security
Sophos UTM vs Untangle
UTM or Unified Threat Management devices are becoming more and more popular as businesses and corporations have realized in the past couple of years that a simple tradition firewall of allows and denies is not adequate any longer. Â Hackers and…
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Security
Google 2 Step Verification Setup with Duo
Two step verification is quickly becoming the preferred means of authentication especially for the security minded out there who want that extra layer of security protecting their personal accounts or other information. Â Two step verification in general makes the end…
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Web
Nginx configuration, security, and other information
Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. Â Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent connections with a fair amount of ease. It is used…
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Windows
Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekend as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities.  It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Security
Install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET for better security
In this day and age of high profile exploits in the news involving businesses that we all know and use, digital security is more on the minds of everyone now than ever before. Â While there isn’t anything we as consumers…
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Security
The safer way to lock your Windows computer
How many times have all of us walked away from our workstations thinking that the CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then ENTER keystrokes we entered successfully locked our workstations only to come back and find that we were too fast for Windows and…
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Linux
Install all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server
Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install all the updates besides any that touched Nginx as we…
