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What is a VPN and why you should definitely get one and use it
Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

What is a VPN and why you should definitely get one and use it A useful guide explaining what a Virtual Private Network actually is, how it works and how it can greatly improve your online security

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In a world overcrowded by hackers, malwares, ransomwares and other malicious software or parties trying to steal your personal data without you even knowing it, increasing your online security and …

What is a VPN and why you should definitely get one and use it A useful guide explaining what a Virtual Private Network actually is, how it works and how it can greatly improve your online security Read More
Encryption in-transit and Encryption at-rest - Definitions and Best Practices
Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Encryption in-transit and Encryption at-rest - Definitions and Best Practices An extensive overview of the two main encryption methods available today: how they work and how we can use them to protect our personal data from unauthorized access

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In the latest few years the world wide web has experienced an exponential growth of hackers, malwares, ransomwares and other malicious software or parties which is constantly trying to find …

Encryption in-transit and Encryption at-rest - Definitions and Best Practices An extensive overview of the two main encryption methods available today: how they work and how we can use them to protect our personal data from unauthorized access Read More
What are HTTP Security Headers and how to properly implement them in IIS, Apache and Nginx to secure your web site
Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

Expect-CT - A new HTTP Security Header to be aware of A new HTTP header that allows web host operators to instruct user agents to expect valid Signed Certificate Timestamps (SCTs) to be served on connections to these hosts.

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I'm writing this post as a follow-up of this article about HTTP Security Headers that I wrote a year ago to introduce a new kid on the block: its name …

Expect-CT - A new HTTP Security Header to be aware of A new HTTP header that allows web host operators to instruct user agents to expect valid Signed Certificate Timestamps (SCTs) to be served on connections to these hosts. Read More
How to stop (or prevent) massive login attempts to Remote Desktop RDP on Windows Server
Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web / Windows

IIS - How to restrict a web site access to some IP addresses Brief tutorial explaining how to use the IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions IIS feature to allow or deny access to web sites, folders, and/or files

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In this post we'll deal with one of the most undervalued and semi-unknown features of Internet Information Services, better known as IIS, the web server shipped with most Windows client …

IIS - How to restrict a web site access to some IP addresses Brief tutorial explaining how to use the IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions IIS feature to allow or deny access to web sites, folders, and/or files Read More
Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know
Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Microsoft 70-741 exam and MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification All about the Microsoft 70-741 exam and the MCSA Certification: how pass them with a great score and why they are a great chance to boost your IT career

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Are you an aspiring or working IT Professional? Do you want to make a good career in the IT Sector? If yes than you should know that for a good …

Microsoft 70-741 exam and MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification All about the Microsoft 70-741 exam and the MCSA Certification: how pass them with a great score and why they are a great chance to boost your IT career Read More
How to Setup and Configure a VNC Server on Linux CentOS
Linux / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

How to Setup and Configure a VNC Server on Linux CentOS A comprehensive tutorial explaining how to install, setup and configure a VNC Server on a CentOS 7.x machine using TigerVNC Service

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In this post we'll see how to setup and configure a VNC Server on a Linux CentOS 7.x server machine to allow remote connections from any VNC client - such as …

How to Setup and Configure a VNC Server on Linux CentOS A comprehensive tutorial explaining how to install, setup and configure a VNC Server on a CentOS 7.x machine using TigerVNC Service Read More
Cloud-Based vs VOIP Telephone System: What Should You Choose?
Cloud / Hardware / Mobile Devices / Network Devices / Servers & Services

Cloud-Based vs VOIP Telephone System: What Should You Choose? A comparison between the two most used business technologies to handle telecommunications between business organizations

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Regardless of the niche, a clear and well-established telephony service allows you to connect several operators at the same time, provide clear and high-quality communications, record, work through and improve …

Cloud-Based vs VOIP Telephone System: What Should You Choose? A comparison between the two most used business technologies to handle telecommunications between business organizations Read More
Linux - Come inviare E-Mail con sSMTP (con configurazioni-tipo per GMail, Aruba e Yahoo)
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Cron Jobs - Task Scheduler alternative How to configure a daily or weekly automatic shutdown & reboot of your machine using cron job in Linux CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL

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Since we just published a guide to setup an auto-reboot or auto-shutdown on Windows machines, we thought that it could be useful to do the same for Linux systems as …

Linux - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Cron Jobs - Task Scheduler alternative How to configure a daily or weekly automatic shutdown & reboot of your machine using cron job in Linux CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL Read More
Impostare lo Shutdown o il Reboot automatico di Windows
Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Windows - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Task Scheduler - Cron Jobs alternative How to setup the automatic reboot and/or shutdown of a Windows 10 or Windows Server machine with the built-in Task Scheduler feature

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Despite the common belief, the practice of programming a system reboot or shutdown of a client or server machine isn't necessarily a bad thing: in some limited scenario planning a regular …

Windows - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Task Scheduler - Cron Jobs alternative How to setup the automatic reboot and/or shutdown of a Windows 10 or Windows Server machine with the built-in Task Scheduler feature Read More
MySQL Master-Master Replication setup in 5 easy steps
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB sock file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.sock files and folders

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Yesterday I wrote a small tutorial explaining how to fix a common MySQL or MariaDB problem related to the pid file not being created upon the service startup. That same …

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB sock file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.sock files and folders Read More