SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 5
Security 401.5 – Windows Security Can’t help but notice the ice cream bar on my post? Well day 5 is ice cream day! Instead of your usual sugary snacks, you get to line up for ice cream during one of…
Windows
How to bypass your corporate firewall and RDP to your home machine
The Challenge So you’re at work and your corporate firewall restricts all outgoing traffic except for http/https (port 80/443) and you want to remote desktop to your PC at home. What can you do? The simple solution is to use…
How to create a SSH tunnel using iPad/iPhone?
Problem: Have you ever had the need to VPN home from your iOS compatible device such as an iPhone or iPad? By using SSH tunneling, there’s no need to setup a complex IPSEC VPN or PPTP server at home. Just…
Etherchannel / Bonding / Port-channel – Network Redundancy for Servers
Etherchannel, Portchannel, bonding or NIC teaming? Etherchannel, portchannel, bonding, link-aggregation and NIC teaming are all terms to describe the bundling of two or more ports to form one logical Ethernet link. Ether-channel/Port-channel is the term used by Cisco convention and…
Windows Server 2003 Remote Desktop console session
A regular Windows Server 2003 comes with two remote access sessions. This means you can open a maximum of two simultaneous Remote Desktop Sessions at one time, unless you install more terminal services licenses. However one thing you may not…
iSCSI @ Home
iSCSI or internet SCSI is a standard for running SCSI over an ip based network. For people familiar with this technology it basically enables you to mount remote disks over your existing IP infrastructure. Today I setup a simple iSCSI…
Upgrading an Entrepreneur ASP infrastructure – PART III
VMware – The leading industry Virtualization Provider. It comes in two flavors VMWare ESX and VMWare Server (formerly GSX). The former comes at a cost and the latter FREE! In a low cost setup Vmware server (Free version) is the…