I know some sites trust their servers and let the servers talk to anywhere on the Internet or internally. Just had a thought, instead all servers should be blocked for all traffic except for business needed traffic. What about updates? The servers need to go fetch updates. (In those cases where the patches/updates are not [...]
I came across this story of how to capture packets using a Cisco router. Nice when you don’t have any alternatives.
In this article Whitfield Diffie talks talks about secure cloud computing. I take comfort in knowing that he and I used to work for the same company, Sun Microsystems. There are some really smart people at Sun. The article is small and I recommend reading it. I specifically quote part of the article below as [...]
While playing around with themes from StudioPress I learned about TimThumb. I managed to get it working with iBlogPro3 from PageLines. IMHO much easier than doing it the way the theme author suggested. If you’re curious the changes need to be made within library/_posts.php find the line that deals with the thumb images and change [...]
This is a patch to comment.php for a wordpress installation. Basically if the X_FORWARDED_FOR header is set then the comment is attributed to that IP instead of the IP address of the remote connection. For those that run WordPress behind a reverse proxy, like Squid, Apache, etc. this is helpful. Of course this header can [...]
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