First thing that came to my mind when reading about POODLE was how can I test, followed by what to do to patch/fix this. So the first thing is to test for the vulnerability. And from all I have read so far is that you are vulnerable if your servers support SSLv3. I am confident that […]
Author: jermsmit
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Google researchers announced the discovery of a vulnerability that affects systems with SSL 3.0 enabled. This vulnerability has been named POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption). Details are available at https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf. It has been strongly encouraged to discontinue the use of SSL 3.0. Info Sources http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html
Poking around in Microsoft SQL Server looking for a way to give me some statistics on memory usage, primarily consumed memory. My first attempt was using ‘dbcc memorystatus’. This gives me a good snapshot of the current memory status of the SQL Server. It will take me sometime to fully understand and parse the output. So […]
Setting up a new installation of Lync Server 2013 I encountered an issue after being notified b the Lync Server 2013 install prerequisite check that Windows Identity Foundation was required. I found my way to the download site and grabbed what I though was the correct install where I got the following error: Installer encountered […]
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Finally I can Watch Netflix in Ubuntu
Hi all, I just read on the Ubuntu insights that watching Netflix is now a thing for Ubuntu. Recent efforts have finally paid off and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports it when using Google Chrome version 37 and above. I big thanks goes out to those at Netflix and Ubuntu for making this “official”. I’ve personally […]
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