Tonight I was working on upgrading a few things across my server infrastructure and ran into an issue that required dropping everything to patch immediately. A massive critical vulnerability dropped for the core PHP engine (specifically CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), which allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). If you host your own VPS or dedicated boxes….
We’re in the middle of a desktop/laptop migration thanks (in-part) to the Covid pandemic and the shift to work-from-anywhere. As part of that, we have a need to include the domain user (we’re still in a hybrid deployment) in the local security group Network Configuration Operators to ensure they can manage the VPN tunnel. What….
Tonight I was working on a side project and ran into an issue I had not run into previously. The boto3 library used by the AWS Lambda python runtime was out of date compared to my own local environment. This issue was raised over at the boto3 github site. Turns out I ran into the….
Short sweet and to the point. We are beginning to demo the Community Edition of Sonar Qube’s code analysis tool. And while I’m certain others have written extensively on the merits of Sonar Qube itself, today I’m going to share a very simple method to front-end the Sonar Qube installation with HAProxy and provide a….
We encountered a rather annoying bug recently with Windows 10 updates and workstations with Intel I series NICs, so far it’s affected the I210 and I219 NICs, though other card makes and models may be affected. Intel has acknowledged the Advanced Network Service extension is broken with the current release and has advised a fix….
First things first. I know SFTP topics aren’t sexy. I can hear you right now, SFTP is an archaic protocol only used by people with archaic systems. And generally speaking, you’re probably not wrong. However, many of us still work in those environments and are making progress towards cloud services one piece at a time…..