I was looking at a software to perform network discovery and security audits, where I discovered the open source utility Nmap (http://nmap.org/), OK I was already aware of it! I was looking to install Nmap on an Ubuntu operating system, which requires the following to be run: apt-get install nmap I also required the ability … More Performing network discovery and security audits with Nmap
I was recently required to implement SSL on a Apache web server to which I currently held a SSL certificate for the namespace which was generated using IIS. So rather than purchasing an additional certificate, I was able to convert the original SSL certificate from IIS into a the format required for Apache using OpenSSL, … More Exporting SSL certificate from IIS to Apache
I was recently investigating two factor authentication solutions to use with a Watchguard XTM appliance for mobile VPN solutions, to where I came across FreeRADIUS (http://freeradius.org/). FreeRADIUS server is a daemon of a UNIX (like) operating system which allows for a radius protocol server to be setup. FreeRADIUS is an open-source project and is developed … More Integrating Google Authenticator PAM module with FreeRADIUS Server
I was recently required to manage a number of clients in a workgroup with the WSUS server within my domain. In order to so, this is as simple as modifying the clients registry settings to replicate those of the clients within your domain, so basically you will be required to create/import the following registry key, … More Manage Workgroup Computers with WSUS Server
I was recently looking to retrieve information in regards to TLS\SSL compression for a number of websites to address the BREACH vulnerability and found this useful utility at http://www.bolet.org/TestSSLServer/. TestSSLServer is a command line utility which contacts a TLS\SSL server and returns the following information: Supported versions (among SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 … More Retrieving TLS\SSL server information
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