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Digital Contact Tracing Apps: all known protocols
Android / Coding / Cyber Security / Design / iOS / Mobile Devices / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Digital Contact Tracing Apps: all known protocols From PEPPT-PT to DP-3T, from the Apple & Google decentralized APIs to the central log processing of BlueTrace & OpenTrace: all contract tracing projects

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When it comes to Digital Contact Tracing app, it's very important to determine what tracing protocol has been implemented by the app itself. As you might already know if you've …

Digital Contact Tracing Apps: all known protocols From PEPPT-PT to DP-3T, from the Apple & Google decentralized APIs to the central log processing of BlueTrace & OpenTrace: all contract tracing projects Read More
Is your Telemedicine or Contact Tracing App Secure enough?
Android / Coding / Cyber Security / Design / iOS / Mobile Devices / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Is your Telemedicine or Contact Tracing App Secure enough? A list of the key aspects in telemedicine and/or contact tracing mobile apps to check and secure against malicious threats

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With the wake of COVID-19 lockdown, a sudden surge is seen in the usage of Telemedicine apps. The availability of the easier healthcare option where irrespective of the distance, a …

Is your Telemedicine or Contact Tracing App Secure enough? A list of the key aspects in telemedicine and/or contact tracing mobile apps to check and secure against malicious threats Read More
How to stop (or prevent) massive login attempts to Remote Desktop RDP on Windows Server
Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Force a Remote Group Policy Refresh with GPUpdate, Invoke-GPUpdate or GPMC How to force the update / refresh of the local Group Policy settings of an Active Directory Windows Client using either the GPMC, the GPUpdate command-line tool or Powershell

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A few days ago we published an article explaining how to disable file copy through RDP using Group Policy for all the Windows clients within the same Active Directory forest. …

Windows - Force a Remote Group Policy Refresh with GPUpdate, Invoke-GPUpdate or GPMC How to force the update / refresh of the local Group Policy settings of an Active Directory Windows Client using either the GPMC, the GPUpdate command-line tool or Powershell Read More
How to block File Sharing for one or more IP Addresses in Windows
Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - How to list all Services using CMD and Powershell A set of useful Windows command-line and Powershell tools to show the System Services, searching and filtering them and so on

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As you most likely already know, in Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background, just like daemons in a Unix-like environment. They …

Windows - How to list all Services using CMD and Powershell A set of useful Windows command-line and Powershell tools to show the System Services, searching and filtering them and so on Read More
Rocket Chat - Change ROOT_URL and Site URL
Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / Web

Rocket Chat - Change ROOT_URL and Site URL How to change the Rocket Chat's Site URL after changing the ROOT_URL in the rocketchat.service file

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Today I was playing with Rocket.Chat, a neat open source web chat platform / framework with a lot of useful features. Unfortunately, the project still has a lot of issues …

Rocket Chat - Change ROOT_URL and Site URL How to change the Rocket Chat's Site URL after changing the ROOT_URL in the rocketchat.service file Read More
How to stop (or prevent) massive login attempts to Remote Desktop RDP on Windows Server
Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Disable file copy through RDP with Group Policy How to configure the Local or AD Group Policy Objects to disable Clipboard redirection, Drive mapping/redirection, LPT port redirection and/or COM port redirection through Remote Desktop Protocol

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In this post we'll see how we can use the Windows Server Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to globally disable some useful - yet potentially harmful - features that natively come …

Windows - Disable file copy through RDP with Group Policy How to configure the Local or AD Group Policy Objects to disable Clipboard redirection, Drive mapping/redirection, LPT port redirection and/or COM port redirection through Remote Desktop Protocol Read More
How to block File Sharing for one or more IP Addresses in Windows
Operating Systems / Tools & Utilities / Windows

How to change password through Remote Desktop (RDP) A couple of useful suggestions to change your Windows password when accessing your PC using Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)

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If you're reading this, it most likely means that you're looking for a way to change your Windows password remotely, i.e. from a Remote Desktop connection (RDP protocol): this is …

How to change password through Remote Desktop (RDP) A couple of useful suggestions to change your Windows password when accessing your PC using Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) Read More
Protect CentOS from unwanted SSH failed login attempts with Fail2Ban
Linux / Operating Systems / Tools & Utilities

How to Clear Disk Space on CentOS 7+ A series of useful commands to free disk space on a CentOS 7 machine using yum-utils and other built-in tools

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you're looking for a way to free some reasonable amount of disk space on a CentOS 7 machine. In …

How to Clear Disk Space on CentOS 7+ A series of useful commands to free disk space on a CentOS 7 machine using yum-utils and other built-in tools Read More
Kerio Control VPN Client, All Versions - Direct Download Links
Software / Tools & Utilities / Web / Windows

Kerio VPN Client install error on Windows 8 and Vista - FIX How to fix a nasty issue that can occur when trying to install Kerio Control VPN client on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Vista

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you're getting an odd error when rying to install Kerio Control VPN Client on a Windows 8, 8.1 or …

Kerio VPN Client install error on Windows 8 and Vista - FIX How to fix a nasty issue that can occur when trying to install Kerio Control VPN client on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Vista Read More
Folx - a great uTorrent alternative for macOS Catalina
Hardware / macOS / RAM, HDD & SSD / Tools & Utilities

Useful Tips to recover lost Hard Drive space on a Mac book What to do when our Mac HDD or SDD is full? Here are some useful tips to fix such problem for good!

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Some individuals have this tendency to hoard a lot of stuff on their computers even when they do not really need it. Well, it just so happens that sooner or …

Useful Tips to recover lost Hard Drive space on a Mac book What to do when our Mac HDD or SDD is full? Here are some useful tips to fix such problem for good! Read More