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- A Dell Pro Max Plus turned me from Pro Dell to no! DellTL;DR Dell delivered a faulty high end laptop, refused to refund under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and their ProSupport “fix” that, at the present time, looks like will take in excess of two months; even though it only took 11 days to order and deliver the new (faulty) laptop. I’ve been purchasing Dell computers… Read more: A Dell Pro Max Plus turned me from Pro Dell to no! Dell
- Multiple VPN tunnel selection using policy routingEver wanted to run multiple VPNs at the same time from the same device? Route a client down a different VPN at a boundary linux router? Introduction Linux has a wealth of networking capabilities, to the degree that it can operate as quite a powerful router, just without the hardware acceleration you get with a… Read more: Multiple VPN tunnel selection using policy routing
- Lets Encrypt Failure – It was DNS(ish) – a conspiracy of coincidencesOver the weekend I enabled DNSSec on this site and blogged about it [1]. Today Lets Encrypt renewed the certificate on the Origin Server via DNS-01 – its setup uses CNAMEs to allow internal devices to get public certs, described in an earlier blog post [2]. The certificate renewal failed. Considering it has worked since… Read more: Lets Encrypt Failure – It was DNS(ish) – a conspiracy of coincidences
- DNSSec All The Things – An Easy (and free) WayDNSSec is a technology that adds a layer of protection so that domain names and websites like this one are more resistant to being hijacked by a spoofed domain. In this case it provides an additional layer of authentication to allow a DNS resolver to prove that the answers it got are valid and not… Read more: DNSSec All The Things – An Easy (and free) Way
- Three Random Words – An adventure in passphrase crackingDuring a recent red team engagement, we came across several useful artefacts after compromising an IT helpdesk user account. One of particular interest contained a list of useful sites, including a well-known password generator site. This is one of a class of sites that generate a password by selecting a number, say 4, random words… Read more: Three Random Words – An adventure in passphrase cracking