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Facebook, and TOR hidden services

All I can say is … “Its about time” While TOR does provide you with the ability to be anonymous that isn’t the full extent of its use. There’s no reason to let your ISP know when or whether you’re visiting Facebook.  Same goes for Facebook’s upstream ISP, or some any other agency on the […]

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Google Removes SSLv3 Fallback Support From Chrome

Google has released Chrome 39, fixing 42 security vulnerabilities and removing support for the fallback to SSLv3. Among the fixes in Google Chrome version 39 are a number of patches for high-risk vulnerabilities, including several buffer overflows, use-after-frees and integer overflows. Highlight fixes below: Please see the Chromium security page for more information. [$500][389734] High […]

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How-To Software Technical

Configuring Apache for Forward Secrecy

I was testing one of my SSL enabled sites after securing apache HTTPD from POODLE, when I noticed the following warning: The server does not support Forward Secrecy with the reference browsers To ensure I was operating at the best security level possible for my little site, I added the following to the apache2.conf (/etc/apache2/) […]

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vCloud Air – I want it

From our friends over at VMware we now have news of vCloud Air. A public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery. With vCloud Air  you can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud.  vCloud Air’s billing mode uses the IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) […]

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Galaxy S4: No Sim Card Error, Please Reboot

For several months now I have been dealing with an issue where my phone reports that my sim card was removed and prompts me to reboot the device. As you can guess this is very annoying as I am unable to receive SMS and Phone calls and there is no warning other than when I […]

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A GoodReads review of my Minecraft Servers

There are times I search my domain name to see where my ranking are going. Tonight I came across something unexpected. It was a review on the website goodreads where a player who visits my Minecraft Servers gave it a very friendly review and write up.  How awesome is that! I am so happy that […]