Learning web application security from books and slides only gets you so far. At some point you need…
Wireshark is the tool you reach for when tcpdump’s output scrolls past too fast and you need to…
Every penetration tester needs a safe environment to sharpen skills without risking legal trouble or breaking production systems.…
Warning: Permanently added ‘157.90.202.120’ (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. Every penetration test starts the same way:…
The Prometheus mysqld_exporter scrapes metrics from MySQL or MariaDB and exposes them in the Prometheus text format on…
Shipping MySQL or MariaDB backups to S3 gets them off the database host and into durable, geographically redundant…
The Ubuntu package repos ship a Go compiler (golang-go) but it usually lags the upstream release by a…
Primary-replica (historically called master-slave) replication on MariaDB gives you an asynchronous copy of a database you can use…
Monit is a tiny watchdog daemon that monitors processes, filesystems, and system health on a single host. It’s…
Snap packages aren’t the first choice for everyone on the RHEL family, but some applications only ship as…
Supervisor is a lightweight process manager that watches non-daemonized programs, restarts them when they die, and gives you…
When you’re watching a server and top feels like a relic, two TUI process monitors stand out as…
