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Security Dangers of Web Management Interfaces

Published on March 28, 2012, by in sysadmin.

Web management interfaces are an often neglected area in regards to security. Here is a good write up demonstrating how easy it is to find vulnerable web management logins for hacking as well as some best practices: Security Dangers of Web Management Interfaces If you find this topic interesting, you may also be interested in

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Vanguard Web App Scanner – Detect XSS and SQL Injection

Published on March 22, 2012, by in sysadmin.

Vanguard is a web app vulnerability scanner that checks your website for SQL injection and XSS. Vanguard is entirely in perl, so it is easy to modify for your needs. Vanguard works by first doing a port scan with nmap to determine if the host has available HTTP ports, next crawls the entire site, and

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How to Check Mail Server for SMTP Over TLS

Published on March 19, 2012, by in sysadmin.

Q. How can I check a server for SMTP over TLS? It is possible to have an SMTP connection use TLS from the sending server to the receiving server to add a pinch of security. Many banks and other security-minded corporations require this to send and receive email. To check the TLS capability of an

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Troubleshooting SSH Server Logs and Error Messages

Published on March 7, 2012, by in sysadmin.

ssh logs can have various messages that are all difficult to interpret as the exact meaning is all based on the situation or circumstance. Below are some general tips to keep in mind if you run across any of these messages in your logs! Example 1 If you see this, someone is trying random logins

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Mac Word 2011 Insert Horizontal Line

Published on March 5, 2012, by in osx.

After almost 22 years of making Microsoft Office for various platforms, Microsoft has bafflingly never provided an Insert > Horizontal Line option. The ‘three dashes and enter’ trick does not work on Office for Mac 2011. However, there is indeed a way to insert a horizontal line to your Word document. I’ll show you how!

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Ubuntu 12.04 Change to Classic Gnome

Published on March 3, 2012, by in linux.

Unity not doing it for you? Ubuntu 12.04 has a fallback mode which mimics Gnome 2 / Classic Gnome. Yay! To install Gnome Classic/Fallback, install this package: $ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback Now logout. At the login screen after selecting your login name, click on the Ubuntu icon beside your name to change the session

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nessus localhost port

Published on March 1, 2012, by in sysadmin.

Q. What is the default port for Nessus? A. https://localhost:8834 Sweet!

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