SSH Public Key Authentication

Let's be real, your password is probably bluecat69 or something similar. I don't blame you. It's tough having to remember 100+ passwords and it's so much easier to use that…

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Rsyslog and Splunk

Logs are an important part of security and server administration. They document all kinds of events that take place on a server. Having to dig through multiple servers for logs…

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Hardening a Server

If there is one thing that I've learned over the past 6 years working with web servers, it's that they are vulnerable by default. This is because a secure system…

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~$ whoami

I'm Richard and I've been playing around with servers for about 6 years. I work with Linux web servers for a living and I previously used MacOS so I'm a…

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