As I have talked about before I am a strong supporter of tor. I have a version of both my blog and my website that are hosted as a hidden service. I am proud to announce that I have increased my participation in tor with the hosting of an exit relay. My relay is new so it is not getting used as much, but there has been …

This semester I took a class on Enterprise Virtualization which focused on VMware. For our final, each student had to come up with a project idea and I choose using certificates with vCenter and I thought I would share my documentation. Servers Required: ADDS Server ADCS Server ESXI vCenter 1. Set up domain services …

Something that I recently completed over the weekend was using bitbucket pipelines to automate the building and deployment of my blog. Previously I was building the site on my computer and sftping the files to my hosting server. This worked reasonably well. I had links set up so that I could upload the files to a …

Creating a hidden service is a good way to get introduced to tor and onion routing. For this walk through, I will be installing tor on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and be using nginx as my web server. This is for educational purposes only. What you do on your hidden service is your responsibility. Installing Nginx sudo apt install …

As I talked about in my last post, there is a shame or stigma that is associated with announcing that you as a company were breached. This is something that needs to change. While it is not a good thing that companies were breached, they need to come forward and say that it happened. This is less likely to happen in a …

EU Cyber Summit On October 24, I got to attend to EU Cyber Summit as I volunteered there. Some of the notable speakers included Edward Snowden, Paul C Dwyer, and Michelle Dewberry. While meeting current technical professionals, I got to attend a couple of panel sessions. Two sessions that stuck out to me were one about …