This ominous-sounding set of regulations is going to apply to a lot more businesses than they will expect. And they’re deep, and specific. Most organizations are going to be required to have a CISO, for instance, and that’ll be a bitter surprise to some. It’s likely that the responsibility will be loaded onto some existing …
ECC Certified Incident Handler Training May 29th – 31st, 2019
The hottest certification org in Albuquerque: EC-Council’s Certified Incident Handler training is coming May 29th – 31st, 2019. See https://lnkd.in/ezAYtJf Lots of my students ask about more advanced certifications, which really means, which advanced topics to study. Interested in pen testing? Or being a CISO? Forensics? Or incident management? Things get very specialized once you’re …
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[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool: Unit 5 ]
This is post 5 of 5 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the fifth unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session helps you get started with …
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[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool: Unit 4 ]
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the fourth unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session helps you get started with …
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Man Pages, Explainshell.com and Beyond: Understand Bash like you never have before
Bash is so powerful it scares me. It’s like Fred Flintstone riding a dinosaur to work: one false move and it’s gonna be mad destruction. So I love me some man pages. I also dig through the better online references. If you want man pages for a specific version of Ubuntu, nothing beats manpages.ubuntu.com. Check …
Virtualization 2.0: Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Virtual machines are great. They’re cool for testing operating systems, and let you deploy machines and add and remove applications and services. But they’re big and resource-intensive. Containers are the new kids. Think in terms of deploying a virtualized application, rather than a whole OS. The big names here are Docker and Kubernetes, with the …
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OpenVMS Commands Mapped to Unix/Linux Equivalents
I recently worked on a migration from OpenVMS to Red Hat Linux, and spent some serious effort porting VMS DCL (Direct Command Line) scripts to Python and Bash. The long-time VMS people were completely unfamiliar with the Linux command line, so we went looking for some good online resources that mapped DCL to Bash. (See …
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Python: DCL Conversion to Python
This is post 30 of 30 in the series “Introduction to Python” This script is specific to operations moving from VMS to Linux, which requires migrating DCL scripts to Python scripts. #!/bin/bash # processDCL.sh # Glenn Norman 2018 # Uncomment these two lines to prompt for a script name. # This script assumes the …
Python : Using Pexpect: ftpTest.py
This is post 29 of 30 in the series “Introduction to Python” Here’s a sample Python/Pexpect script, which is called by the bash script in the previous page. Note how the spawn function runs the command you supply as the argument, in this case “ftp ftp.ubuntu.com”. #!/usr/bin/python # Connects to a public ftp server, downloads …
Python : Using Pexpect : ftpTestOffload.sh
This is post 28 of 30 in the series “Introduction to Python” Some operations are easily handled in bash, like cleanup functions. And bash can call a main Python routine. #!/bin/bash # Author: Armando S. Romero III # Runs ftpTest.py to do pexpect session, # checks if the file downloaded successfully, # cleans up when …
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