Curt Sahd

The spotlight has fallen on the likes of Bitcoin and blockchain in recent weeks. But how can insurers benefit from cryptocurrency and the platform that carries it? At its most…

Fail2ban is an awesome piece of software which protects against brute force and DDOS attacks. To install fail2ban: sudo apt-get install fail2ban The next step is to create a local…

By default GRUB for Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't provide connectivity via the console. As such this needs to be added and you will then be able to connect to the VM…

It's simple enough to install a headless (without display) distro using KVM, but when it comes to installing a guest with a user interface, this needs to be done over…

The following template can be used to install an Ubuntu 16.04 server with 4GB RAM, 2 virtual CPUs, 60GB hard drive, and bridged network interface. sudo virt-install –name YOUR-VM-NAME –ram…

If you receive the following error when trying to add a PPA: sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found This can be solved by installing the software properties packages: sudo apt-get install…

The default display model in a KVM GUI based guest doesn't allow the screen resolution to be changed to what most would be considered acceptable. To edit the display mode…

Bro is an open-source network analysis framework and security monitoring application. It can perform signature and behavior-based analysis and detection, but the bulk of what it does is behavior-based analysis…

Africa’s unique cocktail of financial challenges in the technology appears to be diagonally opposite to the situation in the western world. 80% of adults in Africa are still unbanked in…

If you're like me, you probably store all of your documents on the various cloud service that cap storage at a freemium rate. Should you ever need to access those…