Hardening SSH with Ansible
This blog post is going to be about hardening your SSH config with Ansible. This guide will be built upon my earlier post about Updating your Homelab with Ansible and…
XE Group was exposed for eight years of hacking and credit card theft.
A relatively unknown group of Vietnamese hackers calling themselves ‘XE Group’ has been linked to eight years of for-profit hacking and credit card skimming. The threat actors are thought to…
BitMart: Crypto-exchange loses $196m to hackers
KEY POINTS Hackers have taken $196 million from crypto trading platform Bitmart, a security firm said Saturday. Bitmart confirmed the hack in an official statement Saturday night, calling it “a…
What is a Security Token in Cryptocurrency?
In traditional finance, a security is defined as a stake of ownership in a publicly-traded corporation (like shares of stock), a creditor relationship with a public entity (such as a…
Advent – December Holiday Dates
Advent 2021 started on Sunday, November 28, 2021 (7 days ago) and ends on Friday, December 24th, 2021 (in 19 days). Calendar for 2021 What is Advent? Advent is the…
Why GoDaddy Data Breach Of +1 Million Clients Is Worse Than Described
Over one million GoDaddy hosting customers suffered a data breach in September 2021 that went unnoticed for two months. GoDaddy described the security event as a vulnerability. Security researchers indicate…
Know your ports!
Know your ports! There are more physical ports in addition to your TCP/IP ports, know them!
2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon
2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon Join the global cybersecurity community in its most festive cyber security challenge and virtual conference of the year. The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge…
How-to Configure Monero (XMR) Mining
Table of Contents: XMR Wallet Mining Considerations XMRig Install Instructions What Is Cryptocurrency Mining? Crypto mining is the process by which new cryptocurrency “blocks or entries”are created and “mined,” and…