Protect Your Services with an Immutable Reverse Proxy, Fail2Ban, and Cloudflare (Part 3)

If you missed part 1, I highly recommend reading through it first to understand the concepts and theory behind the tools we’ll be using, and this part doesn’t make a lot of sense without part 2. Jump back to part 1 or part 2 . Configuring your Firewall to safely point traffic to your services through a reverse proxy In the last post, we completed configuring a fully functional CoreOS reverse proxy in a VM, but we didn’t finish configuring network, so it doesn’t do much for us yet....

October 22, 2024 · Seth Brasile

Protect Your Services with an Immutable Reverse Proxy, Fail2Ban, and Cloudflare (Part 2)

If you missed part 1, I highly recommend reading through it first to understand the concepts and theory behind the tools we’ll be using. Jump back to part 1 . Before we dive in, let’s ask a couple of important questions: Why are you doing this? - Why do you want to host a web service at home? Who is going to use this service? - Is this service going to be available for the public or to friends and family?...

October 18, 2024 · Seth Brasile

Microsoft Copilot 365 Copilot Copilot Plus Recall

So on this “Copilot+ Recall” or whatever it’s called.. Watch this for context: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7xGJnTPGQP/?igsh=MW43NW5wNjJpczFsOA== This seems like straight-up purposefully negligent doesn’t it? This shit is stored in plain text?! For real?! I mean obviously this concept was already about as ridiculous as it could get, but storing its database locally in plain text just takes it 3 levels of shit higher. Is Microsoft doing this because they want this product to fail for some reason?...

June 5, 2024 · Seth Brasile

Protect Your Services with an Immutable Reverse Proxy, Fail2Ban, and Cloudflare (Part 1)

If you’re looking for the step-by-step guide, you can skip to part 2 here (but I highly recommend reading through this post first to understand the concepts and theory behind the tools we’ll be using). If you’re looking for a guide on how to set up an enterprise-grade firewall with pfSense, you can skip to part 4 here. The idea of hosting a web service in your own home can be simultaneously exciting and absolutely horrifying… On the one hand, you’d like to learn more about web technologies and devops, learn how to create robust services, and learn how to secure them....

May 21, 2024 · Seth Brasile