Don’t accept cookies from strangers
Were I in the advertising business, I’d have a different opinion, but I don’t like third-party cookies. “Third-party” because the cookie comes from a server other than the one you… Read more »
Category: Security
Encrypted Sparse Images
This tip is just for Mac OS X users. I had to figure this out the other day when I wanted to put a copy of my documents directory up… Read more »
Work Log
It’s been a busy week around here the past few days… Solaris 10 On Sunday I did a clean install of Solaris 10 on our SunFire V880 (host to our… Read more »
Enable Stealth Mode
As I write this the email server on campus is having a problem–which gives me a few minutes to drop this tidbit into the iNode security folder. Internet worms (and… Read more »
In the news…
Seems the NSA eavesdropping story is getting much more interesting. I recommend reading the post on Wired news today (a brief excerpt follows): Here we present Klein’s statement in its… Read more »
No LDAP for QTSS
I heard back from the engineers at Apple, and no, there’s no support for LDAP authentication within QuickTime Streaming Server (and they knew of no workaround). They did point out… Read more »
Another Great Wall
A few months ago we experienced a flurry of illegal use on a few of our library’s restricted resources. Tracing the IP numbers through the logs, I tracked the culprit(s)… Read more »
Safari vulnerability
I use Camino for my browser so the threat to my personal machine is low…but I fired up Safari and went to this test page and saw that Safari is… Read more »
How the Internet Works (Security Now)
There’s a very informative series of podcasts coming from Steve Gibson (best known to those of us who lived through DOS as the creator of SpinRite–a hard disk utility) and… Read more »
Faster SSH logins
I’ve used ssh to connect to various unix machines here in the office for years, but only today did I implement a method that eliminates the need for my password…. Read more »