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. …
I don’t know any of my passwords and neither should you
While I was at Rochester Institute of Technology studying Networking and System Administration, I had a lot of interest in the Computer Security classes. I think i may have taken the majority of the security classes offered at the time. They were really fun and really interesting. It’s amazing that there are actually tools out there that with a single …