Join me on my journey to learn more about the subject of technology and Information Security.
I have been watching many videos on early-era computing and they have led me to give a lot of thought to the fundamental concepts in computing we now take for granted. For example, sometimes we say “data processing” when we speak about our field, but the origin of that term
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We discuss how to upgrade from Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus)to Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) over SSH. This is a good use case for those running headless servers that do not want to lose control of their system.
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To provide a little background: a few months back I accidentally washed a 32 GB flash drive. I waited a few weeks for it to completely dry out and then did not use it for almost four months. I formatted it recently in Windows and it did not seem to
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A few days ago I was attempting to install the OpenSCAP security compliance evaluation tool on a system I had running Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) LTS. The base package of OpenSCAP was in my distribution’s repositories and I was able to easily install it. But, it turns out the SCAP
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A quick walkthrough on how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Security Onion 14.05.
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