It's been a while since I've done a Technical How-to, recently I wanted to get my head around Azure's firewall appliance, here's an example setup and in true MicroSoft style it comes complete with Point-n-Click screenshots! I'm assuming you at least know how to navigate ...
CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker
Looking for DNS Zones Transfers with Python
Back in the day - Windows 2000 era - we would block
TCP/53on the firewall, at the time this was because DNS queries were onUDP/53and TCP at the time was used for Zone Transfer.A zone transfer, is where you ask a DNS server to give you ...
Adding Dark Mode to your website is super easy!
Whilst tweaking my website at the beginning of the year I was surprised how easy it is to support Light Mode or Dark Mode themes. The implementation below isn't a user toggle Javascript thing, browsers now have a "media preference", that is if your iPhone, Mac or Windows 10 ...
Is your firewall Team from Venus?
Something a little different for my site; this post is a soft-skill article. In job listing, or development plans its really common for Technical roles to include a soft skills component and I had kinda assumed it was filler content, how hard is it to talk to people?! A couple ...
2019: The Missing Year
2019 has taught me a new appreciation for stale websites; over the last year or two having/making time available to publish content has gotten tricky for me, so now when going about my usual Internet day, when I come across a site that hasn't been updated in a ...
SecOps: Automated Download of Qualys Vulnerability Report Data
I'm finding the Qualys Cloud Platform an invaluable vulnerability management tool, a mass of near real-time data that shows the security posture/risk of the estate. The reporting systems is "ok" (not stunning) but what is lacklustre is automated-reporting-feature, basically you can schedule things to run, but the data ...
Docker your python scripts!
Python's multi-platform availability is awesome, I develop on Mac and execute on Windows or Linux. What isn't awesome is dependency management, every time I touch a machine I go through a loop...
- Run the script.. it fails
- Pip install whatever I've missed.. I typically code my self ...
Automated Cisco WLC backup with a Python Script
As part of my ISE work I generally make changes to WLCs, I'm not really a Wi-Fi Guy so don't ask me about channel width but I do a lot with authentication and in ISE's case that usually includes an ACL or two on the WLC!
There ...
PowerShell: A simple script to GPG encrypt files
Recently I've needed to backup some sensitive files to online storage; my requirement was simple: work on local files and when they change encrypt. As I'm working on a windows machine that means powershell, I could schedule a task but I'm just manually running this as and ...
