by Matthew Cunliffe | 15th April 2022 | Security, Synology, Technological Thoughts | 37 Comments
by Matthew Cunliffe | 11th October 2021 | Platforms, Technological Thoughts, Wordpress | 0 Comments
Using a bash shell script to validate a Wordpress instance, including themes and plugins, has not been modified.
by Matthew Cunliffe | 1st October 2021 | Atlassian, Development, Docker, Software, Technological Thoughts | 0 Comments
by Matthew Cunliffe | 20th September 2021 | Atlassian, Development, Docker, Software, Technological Thoughts | 0 Comments
by Matthew Cunliffe | 13th September 2021 | Platforms, Security, Synology, Technological Thoughts | 0 Comments
15th April 2022 | Security, Synology, Technological Thoughts
Thank you to everyone who commented, and provided me with their iptables. I finally isolated the problem by starting up a virtual DSM and running it from scratch. The firewall.conf file written in the first part of the code was not being loaded by syslog before the...
11th October 2021 | Platforms, Technological Thoughts, Wordpress
Using a bash shell script to validate a Wordpress instance, including themes and plugins, has not been modified.
1st October 2021 | Atlassian, Development, Docker, Software, Technological Thoughts
A few weeks ago, I wrote about implementing a DNS blocklist script for Synology servers. It was fun to write and refresh my bash shell script skills, but it quickly became apparent that the Synology DNS server was just not up to the huge number of DNS sinkholes I was...
20th September 2021 | Atlassian, Development, Docker, Software, Technological Thoughts
I have been using Atlassian products for quite a while now, both with clients and my own company. Jira is an incredibly effective tool to aid a delivery lifecycle, and although it's geared towards scrum and kanban agile methodologies, it can cater for so much more....
13th September 2021 | Platforms, Security, Synology, Technological Thoughts
I am constantly irritated by the number of adverts and clickbait...
3rd May 2020 | COVID-19, Development, Mobile Platforms, News, Security
Updated on 5th May 2020 to reflect further information on data security. The UK government has been working on a COVID tracking app for the last month or so, designed to notify you if you have come into close proximity with someone who has has been diagnosed with the...
18th April 2020 | Development, Docker, Platforms, Technological Thoughts
How to run Folding@Home in a Docker container to help fight the Coronavirus and other diseases.|
25th October 2018 | Development, Technological Thoughts
I have been starting to use Docker to implement a number of applications (Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitLab etc), but one issue I have encountered is, that unless you create specific networks for each container, on starting the container, it is given a random IP...
29th January 2018 | Security, Technological Thoughts
I received a telephone call this evening from a company that purported to be Lorien (on 0333 023 0006 if you are interested), a recruitment consultancy. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, although at quarter to eight in the evening, is perhaps not the most...
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