Everyone (especially clients!) want to make it super-easy for people to share a page on their site. In the past I’ve either had to hunt for a plugins that built the URLs for me or go to each social media network and figure out what their recommend method was. All I wanted was an <a> tag I could use for …
I don’t care if they get my encrypted passwords
Everyone has heard by now that LastPass was hacked. EVERYONE PANIC Wait- why? A lot high-traffic tech blogs eat this stuff up. Security is a big deal right now. The majority of people don’t fully understand security (they know they want it, but not how it works). So that’s an easy recipe to take some key words that fire people up, throw …
How to disable SSLv3 and RC4 ciphers in IIS
There’s a great tool from Qualys SSL Labs that will test your server’s configuration for the HTTPS protocol. Somewhat-unfortunately, servers default configuration tends to favor compatibility over security. If you want to get your grade up to an A- or better you will have to make some configuration changes. Here’s what I did while using Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS. …