Windows 10 and 11 AutoUnattend.xml Unattended Installation Answer File Template for UEFI and Legacy Boot (GPT/MBR): foxpa.ws Edition A stitch in time saves nine, as the saying goes. Well, I can’t tell how much time this stitch has saved or will save me but it might be the single best…

mod_security / ModSecurity / ModSec / whatever the kids are calling it today is a battle-tested Web Application Firewall that plugs into the Apache HTTP daemon’s modular framework and has been the main mechanism for implementing Intrusion Prevention and DoS mitigation to the LAMP stack for even slightly longer than…

You’ve probably been told — or perhaps you have arrived at the conclusion yourself — that HTML5 is this great new (new? OK I’m an old man everything is new to me these days) revision of the immortal HyperText Markup Language that has come in like a wrecking ball to…

The official documentation for this procedure is available at Recover Password for Catalyst Fixed Configuration Switches. What follows below is a condensed version, for your convenience: Hold down the mode switch while power cycling the unit. …

Using my fresh install of Qubes 4.1.2 I found myself somehow (clearly a result of careless mashing at the keyboard) stuck in an obnoxious…

Today I learned that QubesOS, at least as of version 4.1.2 does not support burning CDs, DVDs or Blu-Ray discs via internal SATA drives —…

Mounting a LUKS encrypted physical medium is a straightforward enough process, per the man page for cryptsetup: cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/loop0 mapped-name mount /dev/mapper/mapped-name /mnt/location Note while the man page encourages using the --type luks flag the format will typically be autodetected when omitted. The same syntax may be…

Subdomain Takeover (SDTO) attacks are popular for their ease of exploitation and inherent severity. Essentially they take advantage of forgotten, uncommitted or mismanaged CNAME records that point from a victim domain or subdomain to another domain or subdomain which has expired and become available, or the service once located there…

This post serves as a living list of free, online banking service options that are available to Canadians (lacking permanent residency, a green card or mailbox, permanent or forwarding address in the United States). This includes banks that provide chequing/savings accounts, prepaid credit cards, taxable and non-taxable investment products and…