301 Redirects – How to keep your domains working

A couple of my users have been giving out their domain name as "blahblah.com" instead of "www.blahblah.com".  The interesting thing of course, they don’t resolve to the same place (in Linux anyway) unless you configure your system to handle things that way.  Doing it with 301s is about the best way.  Here is an example…

Linux Hardening – Sec Check

Auditing has become my main job as of late and so I developed a method to inspect Linux Servers from the inside out, checking for a list of Best Practices and Recommended Values and the like. File: seccheck.sh #!/bin/bash # Linux Security Check version .2.0 # 2012-10-18 # Modified by Jim McKibben # Original concept…

IPTables Firewall with auto update blocklist v2.2

Again, working to harden Linux as much as possible. After much searching, reading, researching, comparison, and experimentation I developed this. I will update this post with new content when I revise the firewall configuration. If you scroll down towards the bottom of this post you will find the rest of the parts that make this…

Growth

Growth of love, such an intangible concept, can’t be grasped, can’t be contained, can’t be measured, can’t be fixed, can’t be returned, can’t be turned off, can’t be turned on. The thing is you will almost always know when it is there.  When you and another one have found it you will know as they…

Training

Soon, almost less than a month away, is my second certification in my profession and a great pride grows in my heart.  These days of training seem to be going on and on, but, most of the material is stuff I am quite familiar with. SANS Security 401 is the book I am reading now….