Microsoft is finally catching on to a maxim that security experts have almost universally accepted for years: periodic password changes are likely to do more harm than good. In a post published late last month, Microsoft said it was removing periodic password changes from the security baseline settings it recommends for customers and auditors. After… Read more »
Category: Web
Transferring A Domain To The New Cloudflare Registrar
I just received an email from Cloudflare indicating that my wave is now open to transfer my domains. I am quite happy with the service of my current domain registrar (internet.bs) however I wanted to see how the price compared. I thought that internet.bs was really competitive on price but after seeing $9.95 on Cloudflare… Read more »
Rainmeter Google Traffic Estimation Skin
For anyone who has wondered how to have a meter on your desktop to estimate time in traffic to a set destination, its actually very easy. I have created a demo on how to do this in the attached ZIP file. You need to fill in the configuration with a google maps API key as… Read more »
SSL Resources I Find Helpful
I haven’t posted in awhile so I thought I would share some great SSL resources I have been using lately on a few of my projects. The first is SSL labs. This service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public Internet. I have used it to verify my… Read more »
How to Add/Remove Additional Users to OpenVPN
To continue on from the previous tutorial on setting up OpenVPN on Ubuntu we will now see what is required to add and remove users on our server. Adding Users A lot of the steps are the same as creating the initial installation so it should look pretty familiar. Lets assume our new client is called… Read more »