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DNS

Mark06/01/202328/03/2023 General blogs

DNS, or the Domain Name System, is the system that translates human-readable website names (such as cybertrainer.uk) into the numerical IP addresses that computers on the Internet use to communicate with each other. When you type a website name into your web browser, your computer sends a request to a […]

(06-01-23) Blog 6 – Blocking those pesky ads

Mark06/01/202328/03/2023 365 days of blogs / January

By now you should have your pi-hole up and running with devices using it for DNS checking. At the moment, the pi-hole will be using the default block list from it’s gravity database, which for many people is enough. But if you want to block more than the basics, you […]

(05-01-23) Blog 5 – Pi-hole, post install activities

Mark05/01/202328/03/2023 365 days of blogs / January

This is the 2nd in my mini series on the wonderful thing that is a pi-hole. If you are fortunate enough to have a raspberry pi, you might now have completed the installation of the pi-hole software. If not, then keep on reading as you’ll become more aware of what […]

(04-01-23) Blog 4 – Blocking ads and more with a Pi-hole

Mark04/01/202328/03/2023 365 days of blogs / January

For blog number 4, I thought I’d turn my attention to something I believe is a must-have in every home network – A Pi-hole I’ll get on to exactly what a Pi-hole is and why you should have one in a minute, but first I must state that this will […]

(03-01-23) Blog 3 – Stealing cars the cyber way

Mark03/01/202309/04/2023 365 days of blogs / January

Modern cars are brilliant. Fuel efficient, comfy, smooth-riding, fast, and often packed to the hilt with gadgets and gizmos, all designed to make our lives easier. BUT…. They often come with little to no security built in to those time-saving gizmos. In modern vehicles, there are numerous communication systems which […]

(02-01-23) Blog 2 – Passwords

Mark02/01/202328/03/2023 365 days of blogs / January

Sometimes called a passcode or a passphrase, passwords are supposed to be secret data typically used in association with an identity value (username, email address, etc.) to help secure a system such as a file, folder, phone, or PC, etc. In days of yore, passwords were supposed to be values […]

(01-01-23) Blog 1 – NotPetya

Mark01/01/202328/03/2023 365 days of blogs / January

Full disclosure – I wrote this whilst reading the book “Sandworm” by Andy Greenberg (amazon link) and I decided to build a short PowerPoint about the events leading up-to, during, and after the NotPetya attack of 2017. I created this as a way for me to build a picture of […]

Facebook’s outage

Mark07/10/202108/10/2021 General blogs

As most people will know – millions of users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were left hanging for almost 6 hours on the 4th October 2021. Facebook Engineers have disclosed a good write-up into the events that led up to the global outage, but the contents may make heavy reading […]