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Category Archives: Security

Digital Economy? Disingenuous Explanation.

It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]

Posted 15 April 2010 † John § Cryptography § Hosting § Politics § Psychology § Social § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Crypto Question

I was initially going to ask this question on my twitter account, but it’s a bit longer than I can get into 140 characters. Unrelated to my project management software, I’ve been wondering about securely storing files in systems like Amazon’s S3. It seems like a great way to store files that you want to [...]

Posted 29 December 2008 † John § Cryptography § Software ‡ Comments (0) °

Secure Passwords.

Everyone knows that security is important. I’ve talked before about DenyHosts, which watches for attempts to brute-force your SSH passwords and blocks them. I could probably live fairly happily without DenyHosts, since my passwords aren’t going to be caught by a brute-force attack based on dictionary words and while every password is vulnerable to a [...]

Posted 12 May 2008 † John § Techniques § Technopaganism ‡ Comments (1) °

Brute-force.

I just realised that my CentOS hosts don’t have Denyhosts running on them. cPanel is supposed to include some sort of anti-brute-force protection, but I don’t think it’s terribly reliable, since after installing Denyhosts on my main cPanel VM, I received the following in my admin email: Added the following hosts to /etc/hosts.deny: 222.66.76.146 (unknown) [...]

Posted 17 April 2008 † John § Hosting ‡ Comments (2) °