Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways – it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Authentication is pretty easy on Linux system if we stick to PAM, which allows us to mix […]
Category: Security
Bad software, virii, spam…
Building a system for strong privacy – Part II
After I have outlined my idea in the first part >/a>, I will now move on to my favorite topic: Adjusting the system a tad more to match our interests My sysctl Config step by step I believe IPv6 is not that important for our connection to the Tor network, since we can still easily do everything with […]
Building a system for strong privacy
I got a small laptop here, which is sadly only 32 bit. To be honest, a bit old-fashioned, but still an unbeatable battery time of 10 hours of normal use. In my humble opinion it’s pretty much a sin to throw that box away. Sadly the 32 bit architecture is about to die out – on the other […]
What did the LinkedIn Hack mean for end users?
Thinking back of the year 2012, the 5th of july I have to think of the hack that happened against LinkedIn. For anyone who missed the big news, feel free to catch up on Wikipedia. But why am I thinking of that stuff today? Well, today, five years after the security breach I do feel its consequences. Spam. […]
POODLE Security Vulnerability and IE6
The Facts: As a counter-method against the POODLE-Security Vulnerability it is recommended to disable SSLv3. Internet Explorer 6 cannot deal with TLSv1. For security reasons I did disable SSLv3 here too. Guess that’s quite some hard times for Internet Explorer 6. Care to update? ;)
Where does the spam come from?
My Blacklist is doing fine since about quite some time and I was expiring ancient spam adresses. So after having a clean list again, it’s time to have a look at the stats – in other words, where does the spam come from. The Top 10 comment spam countries: Country Adresses listed United States 12717 China 8857 Brazil […]