Monday, October 28, 2024

Programming Scripting Automation: Web Scraper For Image Downloader (Simple ImageScraper V.1.0.0)

Web scraper illustration

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. I hope you are all in good health. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new tool: an image downloader that offers flexible XPath configuration. This means you can easily adapt the program to work with different web pages.

While it’s a simple program, it has been incredibly helpful for me when I need to save a large number of images from the web. The automation is highly efficient, as it saves me the time of manually opening and saving each image. I can focus on other tasks while the program continues to crawl and download images.

Let me show you how it works—let's get started!

Friday, October 18, 2024

Linux OS: Hardening Your SSH Server

Hardening SSH connection illustration

    Good day everyone! Today, I would like to share a tutorial on how to harden your SSH connections for improved server security. In this guide, we will cover various techniques and best practices to ensure that your SSH connections are robust and protected against potential threats.

Securing/hardening your SSH server is crucial for protecting your system from unauthorized access. The sshd_config file, which governs SSH daemon settings, is your first line of defense. This article outlines essential configurations to enhance the security of your SSH server.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Programming Scripting Automation: GenKey V.2.0.0: Encrypted Password/Passphrase Generator and Manager

GenKey illustration.

Creating a stable and reliable program is far from simple. It requires many hours of testing and refining to ensure everything runs as expected. This program is my personal project, designed to help me store new credentials easily using GnuPG encryption, which I've been using for years. I understand that, as time goes on, unknown bugs may surface that I'm unaware of at the moment, but this program will continue to be developed and improved.

Hello everyone! Good morning. After a few days of working on the code for GenKey, I’ve finally completed my project to create the "Encrypted Password/Passphrase Generator and Manager"! This program helps users manage their logins from different sites and encrypts them into a file called passwords.txt.asc. Yes, they are encrypted using GnuPG standards for strong protection, based on a private/public key pair. Let's get started, and I’ll show you how I made it!