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Oct/24

Exposing Homelab

Overview Opening home services to the world wide web is a security concern and technologies such as VPNs have gotten a lot easier to setup. However, there are times where you cannot install a VPN client and I haven’t had … Continue reading

03

Jun/24

Document Organisation Part 4 – Document Management System

Overview An update to my overall document management is the use of a Document Management System (DMS). It provides an easily searchable repository with additional meta data such as tags without having to fudge it using a file names yet … Continue reading

04

Jun/18

Securing HAProxy Headers

Overview https://securityheaders.io will give a score of how well placed the HTTP headers are on a site ranging from A+ to F (not sure what the R rating is for). Headers are a powerful meta (invisible to the naked eye) … Continue reading

17

Nov/14

Github Over HTTPS

Github defaults to using the default SSH port (22) but it can be reconfigured to use HTTPS port 443. To test this run the following command: ssh -T -p 443 git@ssh.github.com The above -p 443 parameter tells SSH to connect … Continue reading

15

May/11

Web Server Basic Authentication = Weak

I’d like to point out that I knew Basic Authentication in web servers were not bullet proof but in fact the total opposite (pointed out in the energy@home documents). This was hammered home when I was inspired to do some … Continue reading

22

Mar/11

Create And Enable SSL On Ubuntu LAMP Server

Introduction SSL is used to encrypt data between the client e.g a user viewing a website to the web server which hosts the site. SSL uses certificates which are signed and verify the validity of a website. Like any vendor … Continue reading