Tag: security

  • Chinese Hackers Want to steal my Hello World container

    A smart thing to do after setting up a server on the internet, is to set up SSH keys and then turn passwords off for SSH. The reason for this is that scanning for open port 22 on IP addresses, then brute forcing password files on them is pretty much hacker 101. So if you…

  • sudo Incident Reports – where do they go?

    Even though it’s my server, I still have a pang of guilt when this happens. I always imagine Richard Stallman (or someone with a similar 2000’s database administrator beard) looking at me disappointedly and shaking his head slowly. It does raise the question though – since it’s my server, shouldn’t I be getting a text…

  • Mock Data

    One of the things we need during app development is some data to play with. It would be unethical for me to use real student data to test my app, even if I wasn’t sharing screenshots of the development here, so I’ll need to build some mock data. The prospect of making 400 rows of…