Each time I use the Viscosity VPN client on macOS 11.1 (Big Sur) to establish an OpenVPN connection, the hostname displayed in new macOS terminal session would change from my computer name (e.g. “user@trogdor“) to the reverse lookup hostname of my VPN IP address (e.g. “user@ip-10-2-3-4”). Suppose I always wanted my hostname to be “trogdor“. […]

NOTE: This is an updated version of my original article: “State of U2F in May 2019” (18 months ago) I am attempting to register physical USB keys with various online accounts in an attempt to improve my online security. I purchased multiple YubiKey keys (YubiKey 5C and YubiKey 5C Nano) with the intent to register […]

At Logic Forte, our CI/CD pipelines typically use AWS CodeBuild to pull Git repositories and build/test/deploy Docker images. Our typical build will pull a public image from Docker Hub, build a custom image, and then save our custom image to a private repo on ECR for testing/deployment. Docker has been notifying users that they would […]

We heavily restrict outbound traffic for all of our EC2 instances. This is straightforward most of the time, but can be frustrating when you want to allow access to AWS services. AWS offers VPC endpoints for some services, such as S3, that allow us to make the AWS service available in our VPC without having to allow […]