Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Martin introduced me to the Samhain file integrity monitor a while back — an impressive bit of software with which I've spent some quality time. I was much impressed with the features of the software, and I thought I'd spread the word a bit, so I wrote a short introductory article to it. The article [...]
During a recent password audit at the Bank Of Ireland it was found that Paddy O'Toole was using the following password:
MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyDublin
When Paddy was asked why he had such a long password : he replied
"Bejazus! are yez feckin' stupid? Shore Oi was told me password had to be at least 8 characters long and include [...]
One of our Web servers was rendered almost useless for clients because the Certificate Revocation List we have on it, expired. To avoid that happening again, I decided to implement a check for the CRL expiry as a Nagios (respectively Icinga) plugin.
I grabbed the OpenSSL source code, and in the apps/ directory, I used the [...]
Es sind nur noch knapp 4000 Stimmen notwendig damit die Petition gegen die Indizierung und Sperrung von Internetseiten 100.000 Stimmen erhält.
Worum geht es hier?
Wir fordern, daß der Deutsche Bundestag die Änderung des Telemediengesetzes nach dem Gesetzentwurf des Bundeskabinetts vom 22.4.09 ablehnt. Wir halten das geplante Vorgehen, Internetseiten vom BKA indizieren & von den Providern sperren [...]
It turns out that newer Cisco IOS releases (don't ask which — I don't know) expect to see an "issuing distribution point" in the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) the routers load to check for expired certificates.
I didn't know, but there is a such a thing as an Issuing Distribution Point (IDP) in OpenSSL, but it [...]