Cybersecurity in the Age of the Machine
The most difficult thing about configuring the DNS settings for a domain is designing a plan of action: making up one’s mind about what kind of services you envision and how you want to route the traffic. Here’s a primer on how to configure DNS using Route 53 or any other service.
The rsync utility can backup files, synchronize directory trees, and much much more, both on the local machine and between two different hosts—via push and pull. Here is how to tame it.
As zero-day exploits become increasingly common, keeping the kernel up to date is a top priority.
In CentOS 6.x/7.x and RHEL 6x./7.x, upgrading the Linux Kernel is a painful procedure which requires about a dozen steps. On Fedora, all it takes is a time-saving two-liner. You don’t need to concern yourself with the configuration of the grub boot manager, which is a frequent source of trouble on CentOS and RHEL.
The world’s fastest supercomputer is American again. President Donald Trump’s dedication to #MAGA (Making America Great Again) is showing results big time. Chief among them are the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (2017-2018), a booming economy and a growing stock market.
But economic prosperity also needs military might and IT technology that’s worthy of a superpower.
During the sad 8 years of the Obama presidency, the U.S. has ceded the #1 and #2 titles in the TOP500 super computers list to China.
That’s over.
[Updated 2018-06-10] This post explains how to set up robust security headers in NGINX to protect your web application from malicious payloads and other forms of attacks. Choose your HTTP(S) headers wisely.