This is all that has to do with the geeky linux and Systems stuff.
As promised in the previous post here, today we will go over running containers with docker-compose. We will use the same source code(react covid dashboard) as in the last post. So, if you want to follow along you can use the same. Below is the docker-compose.yml file from the repo. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get this […]
Hey Y’all. How have you been? Covid keep releasing updates and this never seems to end isn’t it ? ă‹¡Today I will be talking you through an Ansible script that I have written to set up a NGINX reverse proxy. You may wonder, wasn’t it the same thing that you wrote about last time? No! […]
Hello everyone! I have been busy with work and studies so couldn’t write a blog for a while. In this blog we will look at how we can set up a basic NGINX Reverse Proxy and a NodeJS server using an ansible playbook. Please note that this is just a demo. In reality, the Reverse […]
Let me begin with some context on why I thought of writing about this. Recently I attended a meetup on “Securing a Kubernetes Cluster”. One of the key takeaways from this meetup is blocking access to one namespace from another(Using Network Policies). Some of you may wonder why is this a topic worth exploring. To […]
This blog has been long overdue. I wrote this basic Covid19 dashboard application over a year ago (Application is still live on heroku at: https://covid19-dash-sl.herokuapp.com). Too bad I couldn’t write a blog on it. Anyways, I didn’t think it would be useful cause I was under the impression that Covid19 will be over before we […]
As you may already know, certificates plays an important role in Kubernetes clusters. This is because the communications between various Kubernetes components are secured using TLS. For this encryption of communication and for authentication purposes, we need certificates. Here, the authentication method is 2 way authentication. So this means we need certificates for both the […]
In this blogpost, we will look at API Security. More specifically, we will see how we can use Oauth for RESTful APIs. For this we will be using some already available opensource software. The code for the example in this post is available at : https://github.com/ihsanizwer/API-Security-Oauth-for-RESTful-API. Basically, what I am trying to do here is […]
Before considering applying access control lists, firewalls and other such controls to protect your network, we must consider physical security. Because, if an adversity can easily access and tamper our devices physically, what is the point of other controls? In this post we will dive in to physical security for your network. Physical Security Categorization […]
In my previous blog post, I wrote on how to bypass grub in Linux. Therefore in this blog we will look at how to prevent grub bypass. So we know by now that sometimes this can be problematic. But sometimes when we don’t need security we can simply grub as it is. If you need […]
Did you just install some linux distro in your VM? or your own machine? Were you doing it by watching a tutorial on the web? Did you install grub? Have you password protected the user? Yes? Then you are secure right? The answer to that is NO! The Problem : Bypassing grub can be done […]