Archive for the Security Category

Playing with connections - Posted 17:34 Wednesday 3 Sep 2008

Decided to play with different connections for my machines (The inspiration was in part this post at The Register): [Edit: added what they do]
1. SSH Tunnel using TunnelerX. Really easy to get going and just in case I forget what to do I have a screenshot of their page on the laptop. [Encrypts all data [...]

An excellent password widget - Posted 17:42 Tuesday 18 Dec 2007

I give out passwords daily when they have been lost. I used to just make them up when I started and the event was rare, then I started using a dashboard widget. I forget the name of it, but I had to click generate on the widget, then ctrl-a (or double click) then ctrl-c (or [...]

To av or not av - Posted 19:03 Saturday 1 Sep 2007

Do I install av software on the reinstalled machine?
Yes:
- viruses are bad
- its expected that you do
No:
- malware is much worse
- av eats more resources than it ‘gives back’ in results
- safe practice is most of the battle against virii anyway
So right now I’m veering to No.
I do have spybot installed and hijackthis available. Clamwin [...]

Secure cake - Posted 18:48 Wednesday 4 Oct 2006

I have a directory on this site which is linked from nowhere and I know that for an absolute fact. There is no way it has been indexed. I could put it’s name into robots.txt but then you could look there and see what I don’t want the search engines to see. For the curious, [...]

PTFE, lobes and an image - Posted 15:58 Saturday 3 Dec 2005

Yesterday a friend’s site was hacked. She asked me to take a look while it was all still there to try and establish how they did it. Apart from the server access log not going back to the time of the entry there was nothing wrong. Permissions were fine. Datestamps were fine yet they had [...]