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Victoria Drake Set up a Pi-hole VPN on an AWS Lightsail instance
Build your own VPN with Pi-hole to block ads and trackers.

privacy 7 min read 2021-10-07 11:01:13 +0000 UTC
Victoria Drake Leading with a cybersecurity mindset
Systems for considering software development from a security standpoint.

cybersecurity 5 min read 2021-07-27 04:26:26 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications
How you can make your digital life more resilient when using services you don't own.

privacy 5 min read 2021-02-22 04:00:43 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake So you're the family tech support
Privacy and online security to-dos for the home-for-the-holidays tech support hero.

privacy 2 min read 2020-12-21 08:42:24 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake OWASP Web Security Testing Guide v4.2 released
Announcing the release of a new version of the OWASP WSTG.

cybersecurity 2 min read 2020-12-03 16:02:33 -0600 -0600
Victoria Drake Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS
How to build your own newsletter list with DynamoDB and SES email sign up confirmations.

api 7 min read 2020-11-10 04:52:50 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake WPA Key, WPA2, WPA3, and WEP Key: Wi-Fi security explained
Which one should you be using? Why Wi-Fi security matters.

computing 8 min read 2020-10-19 04:02:27 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Your cybersecurity starter pack
Basic security best practices to share with your non-technical friend.

cybersecurity 7 min read 2020-10-04 04:30:12 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake What is TLS? Transport Layer Security encryption explained in plain english
How TLS, digital certificates, and sessions help keep communications secure.

cybersecurity 5 min read 2020-09-05 04:48:39 -0600 -0600
Victoria Drake Look mom, I'm a GitHub Action Hero
The GitHub blog interviews me for their GitHub Action Hero series.

ci/cd 5 min read 2020-06-27 09:06:33 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake How to choose and care for a secure open source project
A few tricks for assessing the security of an open source project.

open source 8 min read 2020-05-25 05:53:09 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake If you want to build a treehouse, start at the bottom
How threat modeling and pushing left help create a stable foundation for secure software.

cybersecurity 5 min read 2020-05-11 05:46:47 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com
Take some work off your plate while beefing up security with three changes you can make today.

cybersecurity 5 min read 2020-03-16 08:12:32 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Breaking bottlenecks 🍾
A talk on the benefits of non-blocking functions for programs, developers, and organizations.

computing 12 min read 2020-02-25 12:50:29 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Three healthy cybersecurity habits
Three helpful cybersecurity new year resolutions. Happy holidays!

cybersecurity 4 min read 2019-12-26 08:27:31 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Secure web forms for the front-end developer
How to design secure web forms: validate, sanitize, and control.

cybersecurity 4 min read 2019-12-11 08:27:31 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake The surprisingly difficult task of printing newlines in a terminal
Your guide to string interpolation quirks that confound the best of us.

terminal 3 min read 2019-12-04 09:17:35 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake The care and feeding of an IoT device
Why IoT devices are, basically, puppies, and whether or not you should give somebody one for Christmas.

cybersecurity 4 min read 2019-11-27 08:59:35 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware.

cybersecurity 7 min read 2019-11-13 08:27:31 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access
A starting point for building secure application architecture, for busy developers.

cybersecurity 7 min read 2019-09-30 08:03:12 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake How users and applications stay safe on the Internet: it's proxy servers all the way down
An overview of how proxy servers form the basis of online anonymity, and how their use in various forms helps both users and web applications.

cybersecurity 9 min read 2019-09-16 09:35:28 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure
Why sensitive data controls need to be established long before you think you need them, as demonstrated by Google dorking.

cybersecurity 8 min read 2019-09-09 09:10:11 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user input
A primer on SQL injection and cross site scripting, and how to handle user input in software development.

cybersecurity 11 min read 2019-09-02 09:01:23 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake How to set up OpenVPN on AWS EC2 and fix DNS leaks on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
A guide for setting up your own private VPN service, and understanding and fixing a DNS leak.

aws 14 min read 2019-08-26 09:01:23 -0400 -0400

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