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What is ATS ? Introduced within iOS9 and OS X 10.11, App Transport Security (ATS) is a new feature that enforces greater security within Apples application libraries. This means that when an application makes an connection, using the NSURLConnection, CFURL, or NSURLSession libraries, that the connection must meet the following requirements. The server must support … Read more
Within this short tutorial we will provide the steps for auto generating the OpenStack RC File. Via Horizon, Within the Project tab click Compute / Access & Security. Choose the API Access tab. Click Download OpenStack RC file.
Components MODULES Modules should be installed via pip, including modules from github. To install modules from github the following article describes the steps involved. Structure projectx |– app1 | |– __init__.py | |– models.py | |– views.py |– app2 | |– __init__.py | |– models.py | ‘– views.py |– appx | |– __init__.py | |– … Read more
Introduction Within this article we will take an in-depth look into the architecture of the Cisco ASA 5585X. CHASSIS The Cisco ASA 558X is a chassis based firewall. The chassis consists of 2 slots, each slot can be populated with either an SSP (Security Services Processor) or Interface Module (ASA5585-NM-XX). The SSPs come in various … Read more
Within this article we will show you how to create an instance within Nova via the CLI. Available Images First of all we list the images available to Nova. root@openstack-lab:~# nova image-list+————————————–+————————–+——–+——–+| ID | Name | Status | Server |+————————————–+————————–+——–+——–+| 23e82-5d3c-43a2-82b5-457f5e7 | cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-disk | ACTIVE | |+————————————–+————————–+——–+——–+ Flavours Next we check the flavours available. root@openstack-lab:~# … Read more
Within this article we will provide the necessary commands required to create a read-only account on a Juniper SRX. Within our example a user is created with the following attributes, A user with the username of ‘user1‘. ONLY allowed to use the show command. SNMP configuration is REMOVED from the configuration output. The policy-options and … Read more
If you want to perform any form of packet analysis/reporting there is, really, only one program to use. Yep you guessed it, Wireshark. However as Wireshark is a GUI based program, it raised the question, How do you build a packet analysis report via the commandline ? Within this article we will show you 2 … Read more
Below shows you the syntax required to assign a user (along with password) to a MySQL database. This is useful for assigning separate permissions across your databases rather then just assigning root access across the board. mysql> GRANT ALL ON <DATABASE>.* TO <USERNAME>@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘<PASSWORD>’;
What is TDD ? TDD (Test-driven development) is software design approach where your code is written around your tests. With TDD the test is first created, this test initially fails. The minimum amount of code is then written to ensure the test passes. This approach provides the following benefits, promotes the creation of more efficient … Read more