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  • Cloud Egress Costs & DDoS

    Cloud Egress Costs & DDoS

    I recently came across an article online that detailed how, following a DDoS attack, the invoice from the cloud provider skyrocketed. It is crucial to monitor how a volumetric attack can impact your costs, particularly in terms of egress traffic or the resources needed from engineers to combat it. Implementing automated solutions such as rate…

  • Azure shared dashboard not found, February 2024

    Azure shared dashboard not found, February 2024

    Today, February 19, 2024, at 07:30 CET, I discovered that my shared dashboards are no longer working on the Microsoft Azure Portal. This issue was observed across multiple tenants and subscriptions. I do not yet know the root cause, but I suspect that it is an incident on Azure’s side. Dashboard not found Dashboard ”…

  • Introduction of requirements for email senders

    Introduction of requirements for email senders

    Google and Yahoo is pushing a timeline and a phased introduction of new requirements for email senders and especially bulk-email senders, which are set to begin in February 2024 and continue over the following months.

  • Exploring CVE with CVEMap Command Line Tool

    Exploring CVE with CVEMap Command Line Tool

    CVEMap is a user-friendly, open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool engineered for seamless exploration of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Its purpose is to provide a smooth and intuitive platform for delving into vulnerability databases. However, the tool relies on a free cloud service.

  • Azure CLI, api-version is invalid

    Azure CLI, api-version is invalid

    I supported with an issue involving the Azure CLI being called in an Azure DevOps Pipeline. It’s returning the error “InvalidApiVersionParameter” along with “The api-version ‘2023-01-01’ is invalid.”

  • Internet Archive the Wayback Machine

    Internet Archive the Wayback Machine

    Today, the news broke that the Google search feature to view a cached version of a webpage will be retired and completely removed. But the Internet Archive, with the Wayback Machine, has our back. The service is great and worth a try.

  • DNS CNAME & DNAME mappings

    DNS CNAME & DNAME mappings

    I came across the question of a DNAME record and whether it could be used to redirect a website. I was not aware of a DNAME record type in DNS so I went looking. It’s a mapping comparable to a CNAME but more broad.

  • Add Domain WHOIS on Ubuntu or Windows

    Add Domain WHOIS on Ubuntu or Windows

    How to Add Domain WHOIS to Your Windows or Linux Ubuntu System.

  • DNS Record Monitoring Service

    DNS Record Monitoring Service

    I’ve been recently exploring the monitoring and capturing of DNS entry history for various types of DNS records, with a focus on (SOA, NS, MX, AAAA, A, TXT, CNAME) records. When working with different companies, you might build services that rely on DNS operated by other companies and individuals. Mistakes can occur when the service…

  • Freshping.io Service Undergoing Renovation

    Freshping.io Service Undergoing Renovation

    Freshping offered an excellent free service for monitoring websites with a 1-minute interval. In comparison, Statuscake’s free plan is limited to a check every 5 minutes. In November 2023, a notice was published stating that all support for free plans would be discontinued for new development. I’m curious about what’s to come, and I hope…