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 …
Category Archives: Security
AntiCrawler, referrer spam turned nasty
AntiCrawler, referrer spam turned nasty, asking you to add potentially malicious code to your own site.
Although this is by far not the most popular blog, I do like to look in each day to check up on things, and …
Highly targeted Phishing against a GoDaddy account
I do get a lot of phishing emails, we all do, but as security professionals we tend to recognise them immediately, the syntax is wrong, it’s missing a name, of course when you get them from a bank you don’t …
Test and Fix if your Browser can be exploited by Poodle
Most browsers are vulnerable, there were plans a remove SSL3 anyway. Here’s a simple test and supplied fixes for most browser types on most platforms.
General details on the Poodle SSL3 vulnerability here.
A fix for Poodle SSL3 Microsoft …
Poodle Vulnerability and Microsoft iis Servers and Shell Shock
People are still busy going through previous projects and installations the growing number of threats offered by the Shell Shock vulnerability, with the list of exploits are constantly growing here.
Well I didn’t quite drop everything, but within 24 …
inexcusable that there was only a password protecting this much sensitive data
JPMorgan Password Leads Hackers to 76 Million Households
Inexcusable that there was only a password protecting this much sensitive data.
2FA, Smart Card… we have so many tools available now, there really is no excuse for such …
Creating a simple SSL Private Key and Certificate for HTTPS use, using StartSSL’s free service
“The site’s security certificate is not trusted!” Do you get to see this scary warning often? In most cases you can ignore it, management pages, even your own webmail server, but often you can’t ignore it, it will scare clients …
Dealing with DDoS attacks against WordPress sites and blogs
Why is my email broken? Cpanel, CNAMES and MX records
I have set-up dozens of web applications firewalls (WAF), but often I’m asked to fix other peoples set-ups after they’ve had a go of setting them up themselves.
The most common issue I see always has the same cause, the …
Edward Snowden on 911, Boston and the NSA meta data collection program
Where privacy meets security, two of my favourite subjects, that often collide, both very emotive and contentious.
I think Snowden is wrong here, processing power increases exponentially, a proven fact (Moore’s law) and data mining methods are only …