I've been using KeePassX for about two years now. I've been putting all my passwords in there and I've got just over 180 entries now.

The argument for using a password manager is pretty easy to make, there is simply no way I could remember 180 different passwords. And especially …

This is a fairly short post but it's another one of those Note to self things, I've done this 100 times but I can never remember and need to keep looking up again.

Often I want to go through a directory and set all subdirectories to be readable and all …

SSL Labs have a great tool for testing and scoring the strength of your ciphers and SSL implementation. I've seen people go to great lengths to get an "A+ score". While it can be a little bit check box security and can end up with cargo cult configurations in Apache …

You can send an email using telnet it's very useful for debugging. It's something I've done several times before but because it's not something I do regularly I always forget the exact syntax so I've written this as a Note to self to remember the commands.

Finding the mail server …

I've had a couple of people mention to me recently that they have been hit by CryptoLocker¹ that it was delivered by a link to a page with a CAPTCHA and only after solving the CAPTCHA were the users directed to a link to a .exe file.

There were …