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Infrastructure as code is managing and provisioning of infrastructure using code (basically property files and configuration files that define your setup and configuration files for the software you plan to use on it) instead of manually doing it. Using an automated method to handle your infrastructure saves a lot of time that lets you do… Read More »Chef vs Ansible vs Puppet vs Terraform vs Saltstack

AWS, Azure, GCP and openstack are all cloud platforms that give you a variety of hosting features and a lot more. All of them differ a great deal and today are used quite a lot in many places. There are a lot of other providers but none comes as close to AWS, Azure and GCP… Read More »AWS vs Azure vs GCP vs Openstack in a nutshell

The hosting market today is a very competitive place, providing various services including support and services that manage your service. Whether you are just hosting a website on a shared host, VMs, containers or even dedicated rentals, due to competitive pricing, everyone overprovisions except if mentioned which are typically more expensive. A dedicated VM service… Read More »Overprovisioning and Overusing compute resources

When dealing with VMs, if you didnt plan your filing and partitions well and went ahead with root, you may one day be extending this. For instance you may only provision 10GB of EBS on EC2 on amazon at first, then as your files grow such as logs and say content for your website you… Read More »Extending the root LVM on linux live

Emails are one of the basics everyone needs and uses today, with many using either a service or hosting their own with their own domain. Emails have come a long way in attempts to reduce spam and verify that the sender is who they say they are. While there are other standards for sending emails… Read More »Email sending – Securing your identity

On the night of 25th of June 2021 at 8.30pm RawSEC gathered online again due to covid-19, holding the usual talks but without the pleasure of promotions, food, networking and hangout fun. Sadly this is the way until end of year when covid-19 finally disappears Speaker 1 : Ahmad Fitri Rahman Topic : Packet reversing… Read More »RawSEC Virtual Meetup #04

Another fake news spread on social media, i wish i had the debunk link but there are a few things you can google and find out ivermectin to be effective requires doses 100 times FDA allows in humans pfizer if it was toxic and singapore got inferior versions would’ve meant far far more dead, know… Read More »Fake Covid 19 info, singapore-pfizer-toxic-ivermectin-secret

As i managed to get a better job leaving my minimum wage programming job things will eventually look up as i spent more than a year on minimum wage. When i first came in before covid-19, the salary was low but not minimum and i got bad comments instead so never considered increasing my salary… Read More »Never work for minimum wage in IT

On the night of 27th of March 2021 at 8.30pm RawSEC gathered online again due to covid-19, holding the usual talks but without the pleasure of promotions, food, networking and hangout fun. Sadly this is the way until end of year when covid-19 finally disappears in conjunction with International Women’s Day 2021 “Choose to Challenge”… Read More »RawSEC Virtual Meetup #03

On the night of 27th of February 2021 RawSEC gathered online again due to covid-19, holding the usual talks but without the pleasure of promotions, food, networking and hangout fun. Sadly this is the way until end of year when covid-19 finally disappears

After watching reviews of the new apple macbook containing the M1 chip, it seems to wipe the floor on x86 however its not a straight story as the reviewers claim and they get basic CPU and SoC architecture information entirely wrong. SoCs are very interesting because long before apply managed to get good performance with… Read More »How the new Apple M1 Chip actually compares to x86

On the night of 23’rd January 2021 RawSEC gathered online due to covid-19, holding the usual talks but without the pleasure of promotions, food, networking and hangout fun. Sadly this is the way until end of year when covid-19 finally disappears Speakers: “How I found Blind SQLi in PrestaShop (CVE-2020-15160)” – Sheikh Rizan “TPOT your… Read More »RawSEC Virtual Meetup #01

AJAX, asynchronous javascript requests and RESTful APIs together can create an interactive web experience in a manner that reduces resource usage in both CPU and network without having to reload the whole page, but despite the colourful sounding technology, is this better than the plain old method? In this article i’ll be discussing the usage… Read More »Chaining AJAX+REST /w wordpress vs refreshing

Malaysia, despite being known globally is typically still referred to or remembered as a place where people live on trees or that is poor in the west. Well they aren’t wrong on the 2nd bit. Despite gaining independence more than half a century ago, the country still fails to perform well to bring itself to… Read More »The mindset that makes Malaysia still a 3rd world country

Do you long for mesh wifi or already have them? Well look further as most mesh wifi products out there are rebadged wifi extenders. Recently where I work upgraded their ISP and got 2 different types of mesh WiFi APs in pairs. The problem of mesh WiFi has been something I mentioned long ago on… Read More »When your mesh WiFi isn’t mesh