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This week's Tools, Tips and Tricks talks about the virtualization tool Virtual Box. If you are a developer, tester, hacker, IT engineer or have any curiosity on how other operating systems and networking works this tool is for you. This epsiode goes into the overview what it is, how I use it and why you should too. 

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Google purged malicioius apps from the Goole Play store for pushing illegal, spam ads. This episode talks about this and reminds you not to install every cool app and be cautious. 

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms and therefore one of the most targeted by hackers. The ease of getting WordPress running is both a blessing and curse as most users don't realize there is still administration and security practices that need to be done. This episode talks about the risks and offers some suggestions to help secure your WordPress installation. 

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This epsiode is for anyone learning to be a programmer or thinking about pivoting in their career to be a devleoper. To often I have seen people focus on the language but miss out on much larger, important concepts to be a developer. I try to cover the main areas of conceptual knowledge every developer should have. 

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GitHub is shfiting their services for the better to position itself to be the numnber one repository service on the Internet. Their latest change is huge if you a developer. GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories and they throw in a few other features. This epsiode talks about this move and why you should take advantage of this. 

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This week's tools, tips and tricks episode is about an open source Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system. GrayLog can enable your home network or business to begin collecting and aggregating system logs fast and easier than any other SIEM I have used. Within a few hours I was up and collecting more data, alerting on events and getting visibility into behaviors of my systems. This episode goes into the details and talk about why every single business needs to have a SIEM in their network and GrayLog is a viable option... and it's free. 

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NXLog Community Edition Windows Log Collector.

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Did you know Google offers public DNS servers you can use instead of your ISP? Why would you do this? Keep your ISP and others from snooping on what websites you visit. Now Google's DNS service offers DNS over TLS to fully encrypt your DNS requests. This episode goes into the details of this switch, what it means and why you should switch all your devices to use it.

Google's DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

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A good email system and best practice is to use some kind of email filters. However, you shouldn't completely ignore all the messages filtered. This epsiode talks about a personal experience that happened when I reveiwed my spam folder and discovered something very serious happened to a service I had an account on.

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Your security program won't maintain the value and effectiveness unless you test and test regularly. A good test does more that just run through the steps on the paper but creates an exercise that build collaborative creativity and efforts to play out a scenario. This episode talks about an experience I had recently and an feedback that made the testing efforts worth while. 

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In IT and security we get wrapped around the technical and process aspects that cuases a fog to blind us from what the data represents. We try to protect and defend but what are we protecting? This episode talks about the human element behind the security profession and brings some context to the true defense goals.

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