Category Archives: Security

BAM Vulnerabilities

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Chris

BAM is a company that provides services to Students Unions around the country primarily dealing with union websites. My Students’ Guild signed up with them last year to provide our website, from the off I was quite opposed to the … Continue reading →

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Punching holes in Firewalls

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Chris

It is a lot easier than you think. OpenSSH, which can only be described as the best utility of all time, is quite a versatile tool one feature people use frequently is port forwarding. This allows you to open a … Continue reading →

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Blocking SSH Brute Force attempts using iptables

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Chris

After my recent break in I have looked into ways of protecting SSH and my server resources. I employ fail2ban on my main server, it has the resources to run such a programme – my Linksys NSLU2′s however do not. … Continue reading →

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Disabled Akismet, comments held for moderation.

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Chris

I have made the decision to disable Akismet, after reading some hype about the new WordPress 2.3′s plugin version check API, which turned out to be negative but reveals something interesting with regards to Akismet. The following code is taken … Continue reading →

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Remote Munin Nodes

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Chris

My laptop and desktop are not always connected to the same network as my server and when this is the case its most likely I do not have control of the network or want the information passed over the internet … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Chris

Another release of WordPress another potentially PITA upgrade to complete, but it isn’t thanks too patch. I quickly ran a diff of the Subversion repository like so: $ svn diff http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.2 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.3 Piped it to a file and applied it … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Chris

I have upgraded the version of Wordpres my blog runs, for me this is a pain in the ass due to custom modifications. So, this time I decided to use their subversion repository to create a patch and use that, … Continue reading →

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Get SSH Key Fingerprint

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Chris

I struggled a little to find out how to get the SSH fingerprint of an SSH key earlier so, I thought I would preserve how for ever more. The snippet below will return the SSH fingerprint for the machines public … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Install Ubuntu 7.04 using debootstrap to an encrypted root partition

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Chris

I have updated the documentation and testing more thoroughly. Continue reading →

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Securing Firefox DNS Lookups

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Chris

It always amazes me what nice features can be found in about:config, such as sending DNS requests to a SOCK’s proxy.

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