A good document from Microsoft, comparing the various service offerings from Azure and AWS titled Cloud Service Map.
Example:
| Service | Description | AWS | Azure |
| Virtual servers | Allows users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and server software; instance types provide configurations of CPU/RAM.
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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VMs |
Virtual Machines |
Source: AWS to Azure services comparison
Jason Fried on work ethic
Work ethic is about showing up, being on time, being reliable, doing what you say you’re going to do, being trustworthy, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting the organization, respecting co-workers, not wasting time, not making work hard for other people, not creating unnecessary work for other people, not being a bottleneck, not faking work. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.
Source: Work Ethic
The Chromensics tool is developed to read all information from chrome browser directory and present it to user, in easy readable tabular format which can be explored in descent interface without running the chrome browser. The tool will also allow you retrieve information from other chrome installation brought from different machine for analyzing. The acquired artifacts can be exported in PDF report to present it in court of law or to superiors.
An interesting approach to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack against a Password Reset System
The PRMitM attack exploits the similarity of the registration and password reset processes to launch a man in the middle (MitM) attack at the application level. The attacker initiates a password reset process with a website and forwards every challenge to the victim who either wishes to register in the attacking site or to access a particular resource on it.
Source: The Password Reset MitM Attack
After some recent infrastructure changes, I noticed that certain group policies were not being applied due to network connectivity lag as a result of how our systems were setup. To resolve this, I stumbled on a post that describes a Group Policy setting that can force the computer to wait for full network connectivity before logon.
To enable this setting:
