Collection #1 Password Analysis by Eric Smith, FireOak Strategies Chief Technologist & Information Security Officer February 15, 2019 In January 2019, a massive database of email addresses and passwords was released on the internet. The collection included over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, credentials that were assembled from many data…
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Exporting and Importing AWS EC2 Server Disk Images
We are heavy users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and regularly work with clients to help them transition their on-premises systems to the cloud, build a brand-new infrastructure, or evaluate the security of their virtual data centers. Migrating servers to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) like AWS makes sense for…
Read morePart 1: Create and Export an AWS EC2 Volume Image
This blog post is part one of a 3-part series describing a technique for how to export and import Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance volume images. Read the full introduction for more details. In this post, I’ll demonstrate a technique using standard Linux tools to export an AWS volume to another cloud provider or on-prem…
Read morePart 2: Restore and Boot from an AWS EC2 Volume Image
This blog post is part two of a 3-part series describing a technique for how to export and import Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance volume images. Read the full introduction for more details. Part 1 is available here. About the Demonstration In this post, I’ll demonstrate a technique using standard Linux tools to create a bootable AWS EC2 instance from…
Read morePart 3: Automate the Creation and Export of EC2 Volume Images
This blog post is part three of a 3-part series describing a technique for how to export and import Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance volume images. Read the full introduction for more details. In Part One, I reviewed the steps required to create and export an image of an AWS EC2 volume. This process works…
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