Keeping your stuff secure in your digital life isn’t simple. This is, of course, true for your code, scripts, and financial accounts. But you can also be undone by bad information sources. That’s actually one topic in my Wiley/Sybex book,… Continue Reading
We’re all hearing a lot about how important it is to protect our personal data. But just what is personal data? This article comes from my Wiley/Sybex Linux Security Fundamentals book – which happens to be about much more than… Continue Reading
Sometimes it can be somehow comforting to reflect on how much worse everything is now than it was in the good old days. “Kids have no respect.” “Everything costs way too much.” “Public officials don’t inspire trust.” “And what about… Continue Reading
In this article, I’ll share some newbie explorations I’ve made in the areas of data analytics and pro hockey. I recently embarked on a crazy journey into the world of data analytics. There’s nothing all that crazy about data analytics,… Continue Reading
Early one recent morning my Linux workstation failed to boot. And just like that, all my work plans for the day ground to an immediate halt. This was the Linux workstation that was host to thirty years-worth of data: The… Continue Reading
Curious about what kinds of personal and even private data you may be exposing through the course of a normal day on the internet? How about using “all kinds” as a starting point? Here, adapted from my new book, Keeping Up:… Continue Reading
You know the old joke: there are two kinds of companies, those that’ve been hit with an IT disaster, and those who don’t yet realize they’ve been hit with an IT disaster. But what they all have in common is… Continue Reading
A local area network (LAN) is really nothing more than a structure for organizing and protecting network communications for all the devices running within a single home or office. Let me break that down a bit. When I say, within a… Continue Reading
A big part of administrating Linux machines – especially remote machines – is managing and installing software. When something goes wrong with a local application or when something on the file system breaks and needs fixing, you’re often going to… Continue Reading
Staring at a plain, dumb command line prompt with no clue what to do with the AWS CLI next can be a humbling experience. And, in my experience at least, staring at the Management Console for AWS CloudFormation can be… Continue Reading