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Microsoft provides some demo or testing pages, in which the Microsoft Windows Defender SmartScreen functionality can be tested, similar to ...

Sometimes you want to simply check something from a Windows system with ping and review it with timestamps. In order to do that you may use ...

A step to increase it-security is segmenting client-side (cookie) storage: https://github.com/privacycg/storage-partitioning " User a...

APIs are great, they are everywhere and they grow. When thinking about API security very often very basic security mechanisms are missing. T...

If you want to change the MTU of your FortiGate HA-Cluster by using the FortiManager, think about removing the HA monitored interface for th...

When running VMware NSX-T with BGP and BFD and you are using Veeam backup, you may see BGP route flapping or BGP neighbor adjchanges or Down...

If one of your kali linux systems fails to update some packages like davtest, dbd, impacket, mimikatz etc using sudo apt-get update with ...

In order to monitor your Nextcloud API (XML) via PRTG, you can use the following steps:  https://github.com/flostyen/PRTGScripts/tree/master...

Issue Recently I saw a debian proxmox system, which had a usb3 hdd mounted. The hdd write speed should have been ~100MB/s and the USB 3 con...

For moving nextcloud vm installations from one vm to another or in order to move from nextcloud-vm@ubuntu16 to nextcloud-vm@ubuntu18 as wel...

I've been using the ISP Vodafone (formerly Unitymedia) and I've upgraded end of April from 400 down/20 up MBits to Gigabit down/50 u...

To increase the data disk of your nextcloud vm, which is running on proxmox, you need to do the following: Make sure no disk snapshot is act...

How to import a Nextcloud VM OVA image file to a Proxmox VE server: 1. Unzip the file: root@proxmox1:/var/lib/vz/images# root@proxmox1:/var...

If you want to test your python code for bugs and possible security issues, one way is mutant testing using mutmut: https://pypi.org/project...

It is unfortunate that the word "password" has the word "word" in it. That leads to people almost always use one word, a...

Due to growing data I had to add more storage. Therefore I bought a new Intel NUC (10th generation)  running VMware ESXi 7.0. Really helpful...

Microsofts Powershell is a very mighty tool, which can be used as LoLBin. To detect suspicious powershell commands or scripts, a SIEM use ca...

A possible solution to the following error in Windows 10 when trying to use the start menu: English Error: Critical Error – Your Start menu ...

When trying to use groups for regular expression searches with findall in python, python wont work as in re.search: Example with re.search ...

Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team released in the past some great detailed articles (e.g. 2020-03 Ransomware , 2018-03 FinFishe...