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How to disable SSLv3 and RC4 ciphers in IIS

Sam RuebySecurity, Web Development 5 Comments

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

Sam RuebySecurity Leave a Comment

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 …