Last month, we talked about the pros and cons of some of the different ways to handle containers in OpenStack, including native tools, Murano applications, and Magnum-based operations. Before we get too deep into how to create different types of appl ...
Set up, run a pentest lab on AWS or Google Cloud with Kali Linux, Metasploitable and WebGoat
Editor: Kali Linux is a special Linux distribution designed just for penetration testing, or pentesting. It is based on Debian Testing, and is one of a handful of such distributions in active development. In this blog, I describe how you can deploy Ka ...
How to build a Kali Rolling ISO of doom
Editor: When you've finished building your Kali Rolling ISO of doom, take another step and enhance your ethical hacking and online penetration testing skills by requesting a free video course of Online Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. A while b ...
Technical recommendations for securing Hadoop
The following are our security recommendations to address security issues with Hadoop and NoSQL database clusters. The last time we made recommendations we joked that many security tools broke Hadoop scalability; you’re cluster was secure because it w ...
How to Dockerize a Ruby on Rails application
In this tutorial, you will learn how to dockerize a Ruby on Rails application. The application we're going to build will make use of PostgreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq. We'll also be using Unicorn in both development and production. If you would prefer to u ...
GPG: a Fedora primer
GPG, or GnuPG, refers to the Gnu Privacy Guard utility. GPG is a freely available implementation of the OpenPGP standard that was released by Werner Koch in 1999. The security and privacy of data and individuals is an important topic in modern culture. Th ...
How to install and run private parse server in production using Docker
Editor: Parse is a hosted, mobile app development platform that can also be self-hosted. It's owned by Facebook. The hosted service will shutdown effective January 28, 2017. This article shows how to run your own Parse server on Docker using the Kontena c ...
Hone your penetration testing skills using 70+ recipes from the Kali Linux Cookbook
The latest edition of Kali Linux, Kali Linux 2016.1, or Kali Rolling, was released more than a week ago. For those new here, Kali Linux is a desktop distribution designed for hacking and penetration testing. It is based on Debian Testing and is one of ...
A 10-minute guide to Kubernetes
Editor: This article was originally published by Omer Dawelbeit under the title "Learn the Kubernetes Key Concepts in 10 Minutes". In this post I will provide a brief explanation of the key concepts of Kubernetes. I will avoid using lengthy definitions ...
The Benefits of Microcaching with NGINX
NGINX and NGINX Plus are commonly used as web content caches, ranging from individual websites to some of the largest content delivery networks (CDNs) in the world, such as MaxCDN and CloudFlare. Microcaching is an effective method for accelerating the ...