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/) […]
Category: Technical
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) […]
If you have run Ubuntu Server you may have noticed that each time you log into your system via SSH system information status are displayed. I have wondered this for a while now and tonight I found out. The command to reproduce this information is landscape-sysinfo This command is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo and exists when […]
Its not often I can say a free hosted product can give you alerts and all the info you wanted, but this one does. I was using the service Monitor.us which is excellent to monitor public site and endpoints. However for free version had a limitation of only 2 systems so I had to resort to […]
Sometimes I generate a CSR to acquire an SSL cert from a public CA. Normally where I work I do this from a windows server. For my personal knowledge I decided to refresh myself on how to do this with OpenSSL. What’s OpenSSL? OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. To generate […]
Hello friends, The following post is to advice some of you that run public facing websites which use SSL. Google Chrome will start giving users Warning messages when accessing sites that use SHA-1 based SSL Certificates. By the way – This is scheduled to start happening in under a month form now. And if you are […]