Erwin Bierens

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Yealink Skype for Business Firmware

2016-05-23 1 min read Skype for Business Erwin Bierens

Yealink is continuing its legacy of innovation with the delivery of an end-to-end unified communications (UC) solution for Microsoft environments. The UC Edition of its IP phones is customizable and seamlessly integrates with user workflows. UC Edition phones, crafted with new features tailored for Skype for Business/Lync, extend the communication experience and facilitate better collaboration.

Yealink has certified the following models for a direct connection with Skype For Business:

  • T40P
  • T41P
  • T42G
  • T46G
  • T48G

Download Yealink Firmware

Since the site isn’t very handy with finding tools and firmware, i will list the latest firmware version below. You can download then from my stack account:

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Force HTTPS On Your WordPress Site

2016-05-12 2 min read Security Erwin Bierens

I’m running my wordpress site for quite some time now.. My site is HTTPS enabled and signed with a certificate. HTTP was also possible in the past for reaching my site. In this guide i’m going to point all of the pages (including the administrative) to force HTTPS.

To simplify this, the guide will build into the following 3 parts:

  1. Force SSL for administrator pages (including the login page)
  2. Secure all normal pages with HTTPS
  3. Change .htaccess to redirect all HTTP to HTTPS

When all of this is completed you should have a WordPress site completely running secure with HTTPS.

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OpenVPN in Kali Linux

2016-04-30 2 min read Security Erwin Bierens

This how to describes how to configure Kali to use a openVPN for securing your traffic.

Why should u use VPN?

Here’s my top 5 why you want to use a VPN service.

  1. VPN provides Privacy and hides your own External IP address.
  2. Use any network (public or private or free (hotspot WiFi) with encryption.
  3. Login to your home or Work network from anywhere with confidence of encrypted traffic.
  4. Bypass censorship and content monitoring  by goverments.
  5. Browse and bypass Firewall and censorship policy from Anywhere!

As you can see from the list above, VPN not necessarily hides everything. Search engines  like google, bing and yahoo can still recognizes you based on your cookies or account sign-in. So make sure you use tools like Bleachbit (clear browsing data etc) and enable plugins in your browser for tracking and ads (privacy badger, uBlock Origin or Privacy.net analyzer).

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How to install BeEF on Ubuntu

2016-04-26 2 min read Security Erwin Bierens

Beef BeEF stands for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a great penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.

Amid growing concerns about web-borne attacks against clients, including mobile clients, BeEF allows the professional penetration tester to assess the actual security posture of a target environment by using client-side attack vectors. Unlike other security frameworks, It looks past the hardened network perimeter and client system, and examines exploitability within the context of the one open door: the web browser. It will hook one or more web browsers and use them as beachheads for launching directed command modules and further attacks against the system from within the browser context.

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Deleted Facebook

2016-04-22 2 min read Privacy Erwin Bierens

From a lot of Facebook to No Facebook

At the beginning of this year, I removed my Facebook profile. Here’s what drove that decision.

Social Life

Using the FB apps was a daily routine in my life. I checked it getting out of bed, while eating breakfast, while driving to work, during work, while watching TV and before going to sleep.

I was always online. Sometimes I closed the app on my phone, only to reopen it two seconds later — it became a natural reaction, a process that you can call addiction.

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A Complete List of Microsoft Azure Tools

2016-04-15 7 min read Azure Erwin Bierens

I just needed all of the Azure links in one page for connecting, troubleshooting etc.. Please let me know if you miss something!

Management & Monitoring Tools

  • Azure CLI (by Microsoft) – provides a set of open source, cross-platform commands for working with the Azure Platform. The Azure CLI provides much of the same functionality found in the Azure Management Portal, such as the ability to manage websites, virtual machines, mobile services, SQL Database and other services provided by the Azure platform.
  • Azure Management (by Microsoft) – the current version of Microsoft Azure management portal.
  • Azure Portal (by Microsoft) – the next version of Microsoft Azure management portal.
  • Azure Management Studio (by cerebrata) – one tool to manage your Microsoft Azure cloud storage, diagnostics data and application workflows
  • Azure Management PowerShell Cmdlets (by cerebrata) – cmdlets that streamline your Microsoft Azure workflow with PowerShell
  • Azure PowerShell (by Microsoft) –  Azure PowerShell is a module that provides cmdlets to manage Azure through Windows PowerShell. You can use the cmdlets to create, test, deploy, and manage solutions and services delivered through the Azure platform.
  • Azure Resource Explorer – Azure Resource Explorer is a web site where you can easily discover the Azure Resource Management APIs, get API documentation, and make actual API calls directly in your own subscriptions (read more).
  • Azure Script Center
  • Bitnami Cloud Tools for Microsoft Azure – Bitnami Cloud Tools will help you manage and monitor your Azure cloud deployments.
  • cloudmonix – Monitor, auto-scale and automate Cloud Services, VMs, SQL Databases, Web Apps, Automation, Storage, Service Bus, Virtual Networks and more
  • New Relic for Azure – New Relic is now integrated into Microsoft Azure, giving you instant visibility into web and mobile apps, and see insights.

Pricing Tools

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How to connect an iPhone to Fortigate firewall for tunneling

2016-01-27 3 min read Fortigate Security Erwin Bierens

This article provides a sample IPSec VPN configuration for use with iPhone and iPad. I’ve tested the following on a Fortigate 60C with FortiOS v4.0 MR3 Patch 9  and v5.0,build3608 (GA Patch 7) but I think it will work even with previous firmware versions.

This is the only way to connect an iPhone or an iPad with a Tunnel VPN, because the FortiClient APP  only supports Web Bookmarks.

Let’s go!

  1. Create User

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