- Encrypted DNSSo your ISP can't log what sites you visit and sell this data to marketers
- Ad BlockingSignificantly speed up browsing for all your home devices
- Encrypted FTPSecurely send and receive large files with friends and business partners
- Route 53 Dynamic DNSSo your FTP address (ftp.domain.tld) always points to your public IP
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Raspberry Pi for your home network
The Raspberry Pi can provide a great deal of functionality to your home network. Here are some uses I recommend:
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Wells Fargo two-factor authentication
A few years ago Wells Fargo notified me that someone had successfully gained access to my online account through the use of an alphabet attack. I had to change both my username and password.
Recently the same thing happened to a friend of mine. It will probably happen to you next. So here's my advice: Enable "Advanced Access" on your account. Every time you try to log in to your account Wells Fargo will use a second form of authentication: Possession.
Recently the same thing happened to a friend of mine. It will probably happen to you next. So here's my advice: Enable "Advanced Access" on your account. Every time you try to log in to your account Wells Fargo will use a second form of authentication: Possession.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Spam, courtesy of LinkedIn
Over the last few years I've been noticing an exponential increase in the amount of spam I receive from IT vendors in my company mailbox. After occasionally replying to some of these messages and bluntly asking them where they obtained my email address, I finally learned something interesting:
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Friday, February 3, 2017
Subdomain vs Address
Recently I heard an internet consultant refer to the address "blog.company.com" as a "subdomain" which led me to do a bit of research into what is causing this terminology confusion.
In my experience in IT, going back to '93-94 when companies were first getting up on the internet, the 1992 first edition of the O'Reilly book DNS & BIND was considered THE bible on DNS. That book taught us early pioneers what a "subdomain" truly is.
So understand my surprise when Googling "address vs subdomain" today revealed that almost everyone now thinks that having a hostname other than "www" in front of your domain name is a "subdomain" - all thanks to internet hosting providers who don't even know what they are talking about.
In my experience in IT, going back to '93-94 when companies were first getting up on the internet, the 1992 first edition of the O'Reilly book DNS & BIND was considered THE bible on DNS. That book taught us early pioneers what a "subdomain" truly is.
So understand my surprise when Googling "address vs subdomain" today revealed that almost everyone now thinks that having a hostname other than "www" in front of your domain name is a "subdomain" - all thanks to internet hosting providers who don't even know what they are talking about.
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Information Technology
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