I’ve talked about testing few DoS tools that can put heavy load on HTTP servers in order to bring them to their knees by exhausting resource pools. GoldenEye is the first of those tools and it is one of the newest I discovered in GitHub. You can DoS websites with …
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Generating self-signed x509 certificate with 2048-bit key and sign with sha256 hash using OpenSSL
With Google, Microsoft and every major technological giants sunsetting sha-1 due to it’s vulnerability, sha256 is the new standard. It seems to be an issue almost all Infrastructure Administrators are facing right now. Those who are using managed PKI console, it’s very easy and straight forward and the signing authority …
Read More »Encrypting and decrypting files with password in Linux
Sometimes you need to send a file containing sensitive information across to someone over internet and you started thinking, “Gee, I’ve got some pretty sensitive information in the file. How can I send it securely?” There are many ways to send encrypted files. A good way for encrypting files is using …
Read More »Three effective solutions for Google Analytics Referral spam
I opened my Analytics account yesterday cause I saw 25% traffic increase from Facebook, Twitter and many random sources and 83% increase on the root ("/") of the server. Well, 25% is nothing, it can happen due to a post going viral. But this wasn't the case this time as 83% increase was specific to the root ("/") of the server It seems, our 'beloved' 'Vitaly Popov' has started a new stream of referral spam. He's got more crafty as I predicted in my original post. He's now actually using Facebook, Twitter as referrals including some new domains.
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