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Configuring IAM is essential for any AWS account. The most common use case is granting access to EC2 instances, or allowing web apps to read/write to S3. While it's not recommended to make any direct changes in the AWS console, it's sometimes helpful to allow humans to browse ...
Marc Qualie
Time and time again I've found myself needing to limit access to S3 repositories via write-only. Read-Only access is widely used for public repositories, such as CDNs. A highly common use case for write-only access is allowing users to upload new files, but not modify any ...
Lately there has been a lot of buzz around security when using web services. Everyone seems to be very paranoid all of a sudden and encryption is the answer to everything internet based. I wouldn't say I'm too overly paranoid, but I took this opportunity to add some extra ...
I recently just setup a new SSL Certificate on marcqualie.com and ran into a little glitch that wasn't explained in the setup process, but luckily I already knew how to fix as I've installed these many times before. When you generate the .key file you must put a password on ...
This is a quick post to inform you of some ways to keep your Linux machines well protected from hackers and bots. Today I realised some of these so called hackers had been brute forcing my web servers for the last few days; luckily they didn't prevail but it got me thinking. ...
Today I decided to build myself a small, yet very secure proxy tunnel to use at work. Not that I have anything to hide, I'd just prefer my boss not to know what sites I browse in my lunch hour, or get curious as to why I enjoy watching stand up comedy while I work. Luckily ...
