We’ve seen some successful technical “reinventions” of the Web such as HTTPS/2 and HTML5 making sites faster and more responsive, but this “Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It” initiative is not new, but I will come to that later.
There …
We’ve seen some successful technical “reinventions” of the Web such as HTTPS/2 and HTML5 making sites faster and more responsive, but this “Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It” initiative is not new, but I will come to that later.
There …
HTTP Strict Transport Security is a very simple to deploy addition to HTTPS, it doesn’t enforce SSL itself but it uses pre-populated lists such as Google’s here. Allowing clients browsers to check against, simply that the site only delivers …
Small businesses with Exchange Server or other mail servers tend to have their mail server physically located in their office (in a DMZ), which is great for performance and communicating with each other, but they tend to run all their …
Well not quite hacking as most people think of it, but technically it is, and it’s great.
There is a common theme when you have cleared up some malware for someone, likely they have spent a while confused by what’s …
WordPress.com, the official hosted version of WordPress have switched over to enforcing SSL, while this is mostly a political statement, there is some merit, firstly you might actually have some forms which should be secure, allowing users to …
I don’t think kids are getting the message, allowing anything that you would not be comfortable for your mother to see, should never be allowed onto any digital device, from explicit text messages to embarrassing pictures, never, I don’t know …
From Microsoft’s warning is not clear what the vulnerability is, but you can see that this is critical, and the vulnerability must be patched, especially on public facing Windows IIS Servers:
…A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP
This fairly low tech DDoS can easily take down an under resourced WordPress website, what you will see in your logs is something like:
/?s=SwCGbtyTPFbgIy | 19:02:40 |
/?s=rNiwiuFckGegR | 19:02:49 |
/?s=SwCGbtyTPFbgIy | 19:02:53 |
/?s=SwCGbtyTPFbgIy | 19:02:56 |
/?s=SwCGbtyTPFbgIy | 19:03:01 |
/?s=mYwyTaXVqvlW | 19:03:12 |
/?s=SwCGbtyTPFbgIy | 19:03:18 |
/?s=mYwyTaXVqvlW | 19:03:22 |
VPN offer far more security than the proxy servers which most people are used to using, when using commercial paid for services proxy server accounts are normally much cheaper and simpler to set-up for the client which is their only …
The last month has seen an major increase in international cyber warfare, first we had North Korea hacking Sony, apart from the embarrassment caused by leaked documents, forced them to shut down their entire network, and they claim still some …