fighting the lack of good ideas
It was nice knowing you. No really. It was. I don’t say that because I found anything wrong in the fediverse. Nope. It’s entirely because a recent apt update not only broke my sweetree.ga instance, it irrecoverably broke it. Guess I’ll have to use that domain somewhere somehow somewhen else. Maybe I’ll try you again…
Passwords should never expire: https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/blog/time-password-expiration-die Passwords should not be changed often: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html Password “complexity” is – mostly – a joke: https://www.xkcd.com/936 You have been breached: https://blog.augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches Passphrases are better than passwords – and https://password.ga will generate them for you (it will also generate random passwords that pass complexity requirements) Use a password manager of some…
It would seem I have configured OpenVPN, Squid proxy, and, to a lesser extent, Pi-hole well – none of the major sites that report IP, DNS, and other connection-related security issues find anything out of the ordinary when I’m either running “just” proxied, or VPN, or VPN+proxy. You should check yourself hereon: https://ipleak.net http://ip-check.info/?lang=en (ironic…
About 2 years ago, I started running Pi-hole as a DNS resolver and ad-blocker. Then last year, I ditched it. After seeing a recent post by Troy Hunt, though, I thought it might be worth revisiting..but I needed a better way to control how it worked. Enter OpenVPN – a service I already run on…
I had a decent library of documentation, templates, hand-offs, slide decks, etc in my pre-Splunk consulting life (technically, I still have them). It’s nice to be finally getting a decent collection to draw from for my customers in my post-automation consulting life.
Had a customer recently ask about to disaggregate a Splunk search that had aggregated fields because they export to CSV horribly. Here’s the thing. You can’t disaggregate aggregated fields. And there’s a Good Reason™ too: aggregation, by definition, is a one-way street. You can’t un-average something. Average is an aggregation function. So why would you…
Splunk’s | stats functions are incredibly useful and powerful. There are two, list and values that look identical…at first blush. But they are subtly different. Here’s how they’re not the same. values is an aggregating, uniquifying function. list is an aggregating, not uniquifying function. “Whahhuh?!” I hear you ask. Here’s a prime example – say…