by skufel | Jan 26, 2014 | Infrastructure, Security, SysAdmin, Windows
If you have machine which is not connected to domain, but has TPM chip you might want to encrypt disks with BitLocker and enable PIN protection at boot-up. In order to do that you have to make sure TPM is activated and enabled for provisioning in BIOS. Next step will...
by skufel | Feb 8, 2013 | Android, Development, Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin
Just released small app for Android platform. This app allows to decrypt type 7 password from Cisco devices as well as passwords from Cisco VPN profiles (PCF files). Password which can be recovered using this app: wireless keys fro Cisco access points, RADIUS/TACACS...
by skufel | Oct 6, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Security
In order to enable SSH access to Cisco Nexus 1000v (if it’s not enabled yet) followign commands have to be issues from Console or Telnet connection: Nexus 1000v Switch login: admin Password: Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software TAC support:...
by skufel | Oct 3, 2012 | Scripting, Security
Little issue with OpenSSL for Windows came out recently when I tried to create certificate request. Just after installation when tried to generate cert request got error message: WARNING: can't open config file: /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf Unable to load config info...
by skufel | Sep 24, 2012 | Cloud, Infrastructure, Linux, Security, Virtualization
Recently I decided to use Amazon AWS EC2 platform to host systems in the Cloud. As operating system I needed is Linux I quickly deployed Amazon Linux AMI, which is quick and simple to do. Once instance was created I downloaded key pair. Now it came down to connecting...
by skufel | Sep 1, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin, Windows
As a part of preparation for monitoring our WIndows Server 2008 R2 using SNMP and Nagios we had to add SNMP Services to few systems which didn’t have it yet. So, based on that fact I thought it might be nice to capture all steps involved in adding SNMP to...
