Freenode IRC hostile takeover
Holy cow! So Freenode just shot itself in the foot. Recently it was taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan), and hilarity ensued. Visit the links in the post to get caught up
Blocking ads with Unbound and DoT
Want to block ads network-wide and encrypt DNS traffic with DNS-Over-TLS (DoT) ?
Disable CDP on your networking gear
CDP is a network discovery protocol for Cisco equipment which allows it to discover adjacent networking gear, and is enabled by default. The 0-day vulnerabilities found by Armis takes advantage of it being enabled to effect complete compromise on affected gear.
SSH Tunnel Service with Systemd
The purpose of this is to have a secure way back into the office or home or wherever you need to get to, and keep your NAT / firewall exceptions empty so you needn’t whitelist anything. You’ll need a small VPS with a public IP that can be secured, though you can use a Colo … Read more SSH Tunnel Service with Systemd