Internal encryption in company networks is important and something that's done relatively easy. By creating your own certificate authority (CA) and signing your server certificates with it, you can establish a centralized point of trust on all your devices, making it much more easy for you to mainta...
Whenever I'm connecting to a new remote server via SSH, I tend to verify the fingerprint to make sure that I'm actually connecting to my own machine. Usually it's not that big a deal as I'm simply comparing two strings, but what if those two strings are created with two different hashing algorithms?...
A few days ago, the TLS certificate (SSL is dead, remember?) of my private blog www.hashtagsecurity.com expired without me noticing it, mostly because I paused any activities there to focus on my work here at LastBreach as well as this blog. Since I didn't intend on working on hashtagsecurity.com...
This is a quick overview of a secure Apache2 configuration. We won’t be going into Linux hardening, but will focus instead on the basic configuration options of Apache2. The following code boxes show examples of a secure configuration. Please adjust them to your requirements and test each of them be...
I was originally writing another blog post which I will now have to finish later but the recent discussion with @TalkTalkCare has left me little choice, so I wrote this one first instead. I want to address the problem, that a certain untruth doesn’t seem to die no matter how often the topic is bro...