Month: May 2018
Chrome & G-Suite: profile madness to enable multiple identities
Like many of you I have used ‘incognito mode’ in Chrome when you need to be logged in as another user simultaneously to some service. And it has worked great lo these many years. A few years ago, Chrome introduced ‘users’. It was kind of meant for the family PC and flipping back and forth,…
Hack or genuis: cloud backup, you vote!
OK, you read from my previous post that I’ve tooled up some things in public cloud (specifically Google GCP & GKE). Now, I’m sure they have a strong track record of backup/restore/disaster recovery. But what if… something goes wrong. Maybe I make a mistake and delete the project, my credit card gets stolen and they…
Upstream risks and vulnerability assessment
Dockerhub scans some of the images. You can see the results, e.g. docker/compose. Might be interesting to know what the vulnerabilities are I suppose, but, well, less red would be good.
Cloud Lessons: Of gits and ci’s and pipelines and k8s and charts
OK, no cats, no IoT robots, no crappy consumer electronics disassembly, no spray-foam-snowblower tires.. This is a post about the journey to get a source control system + continuous integration system going in a far away cloud. WiFi fireplaces and feral cats will return, I promise 🙂 Also, if you want to make this like…
API keys, clouds, tokens, security
OK, that may be the laziest headline I’ve written in while. Want to be somewhat shocked and appalled? Search ‘mbasanta@vmtestdrive.com’ in Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=mbasanta%40vmtestdrive.com Helpfully you get the username, password, security tokens to use in the results: And there are a lot of them, all from the same company, all vmware on salesforce for login. Some…
