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Assigning multiple IP addresses to a single Amazon EC2 instance on a single ENI

UPDATE March 1st, 2017 : I'm glad to see that people are finding this helpful, and thanks to everyone that has contacted me here or via email. Just to be clear, though, the script on GitHub works much better than what I describe here in this post. The idea for this post was to describe the basics of how to get IP aliasing working in EC2 w/out using Amazon's weirdo linux distro, and I wrote it about a while before I posted the script to GitHub . If you want functional code with step-by-step instructions, goto the aliaser GitHub repo . I just don't have the time to rewrite the post each time I (or someone else) has an update for the script. Also, if you have feature requests or feedback, it will be easier for me to get back to you on GitHub than here ... especially if you have something specific you want added or that doesn't work. Also, just FYI, I added a systemd .service file to the script in the aliaser GitHub repo a year ago. IIRC its LFB compatible so should wo

Afternoon Links 8/4/2015

I am a victim of my nostalgia. Yesterday, I revived a years-old post in which I provided bloggees with some of the latest Windows activation keys to update the data for Windows 10. I figured I might as well dredge up another bit I had let fall by the wayside; Weekly links ! Exciting, I know.    - Yahoo's ad network and Microsoft Azure's web hosting service were abused to circulate an enormous flood of malicious software . Malwarebytes is being credited with the discovery - which is a little amusing because Malwarebytes has for had their own issues with security   for many years. h/t Washington Post     - Planned Parenthood and a variety of other related organizations were brought offline by a sustained series of DDoS attacks .  In what may or may not have been the work of the same group of individuals, someone has claimed they have hacked Planned Parenthood and retrieved an employee list database of some kind or another .      AFAIK, this sort of thing is new to the abor

Privacy is for closers says Microsoft

Heres part of the Microsoft's 12,000 word ToS for Windows 10: Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: 1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies; 2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone; 3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or 4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services – however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we

CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz made some outrageous claims in Fortune Magazine this week

George Kurtz has quite the resume. Perhaps you remember the time he spent at McAfee, a company founded by a drug-addled heavily-armed lunatic and maybe murderer whose recent contributions to infosec include being one of the handful of companies to use BSAFE encryption library in their products , the library famously back-doored by government security contractors/prostitutes RSA for a National Security Agency check in the amount of $10 million . Or perhaps you arm more familiar with his time as Chief Financial Officer of General Motors, whose flagship "IT" product, OnStar, is best known to actual security researchers as the government tracking device that allows police to disable your car remotely and quite likely kill you in the process. Did I say police? Because I meant basically anybody who has a computer and can read. And did I say disable? Because I also meant unlock the car and start the engine . George Kurtz is to the information technology community what Bull Connor

List of Windows Activation Keys for KMS - Windows 10 Edition!

Hey there everybody. सुनो! आप कैसे हैं A few years back I published a list of Windows Activation Keys  /  माइक्रोसॉफ्ट सक्रियण कुंजी  that can be used for KMS client deployment and approximately a bajillion readers visited it. Traffic was particularly heavy from my peoples in India, who are all awesome. It was by far the most popular post of all time on this website, despite the fact it received no media coverage and no one linked to it. All that love despite the fact that these keys are completely legit, 100% legal and simply buried deeply in Microsoft's documentation. These keys are specifically for volume-activation scenarios. If you think you will pull off some sort of piracy with these keys, you will be disappointed. Anyway, here are the latest keys for Microsoft's latest labor of love, Windows 10. Remember that to install a client key, open a command prompt as Administrator and use this command:   slmgr /ipk yourkeyhere If you aren't familiar with the process, che

Leaked Zerofox documents outline Baltimore network infrastructure vulnerabilities

Several days ago a document from the corporation Zerofox was leaked on the internet. Zerofox is a domestic spying organization there is no other word for them. They are paid obscene amounts of money to monitor people's Twitter and Facebook accounts, and provide the results of their stalking to police departments and other people who are in theory bound to respect the autonomy of free political speech. In the document that was leaked, Zerofox claimed to have "mitigated" 19 "threats" and "monitored" hundreds of others. The document is available here . What constitutes a threat? Political speech that is critical of the police. At the top of the list of "physical threats" are #blacklivesmatter activists Deeray McKesson and Johnetta Elzie , neither of whom have ever been convicted of a violent crime AFAICT. The report recommends that police engage in "continuous monitoring" of the pair and justify this absurd response because they ha