Squid Reverse Proxy security gotchas

Yesterday, there was a thread on hacker news highlighting that many sites around the world were making available potentially sensitive information about their site via Apache’s server-status link (provided by mod-status). The stated advice is to limit access to this and similar pages (such as the server info page provided by mod-info) by using Allow/Deny […]

Marcus Povey

Yesterday, there was a thread on hacker news highlighting that many sites around the world were making available potentially sensitive information about their site via Apache’s server-status link (provided by mod-status). The stated advice is to limit access to this and similar pages (such as the server info page provided by mod-info) by using Allow/Deny […]

Using WordPress with self signed SSL Certificates

WordPress, the popular blogging software written by Automattic, has a problem with SSL self signed certificates. Basically, they don’t work well in any of their newer software products or services. In order to post an update, I must first log into my blog. This requires me entering a username and password into a login box […]

Marcus Povey

WordPress, the popular blogging software written by Automattic, has a problem with SSL self signed certificates. Basically, they don’t work well in any of their newer software products or services. In order to post an update, I must first log into my blog. This requires me entering a username and password into a login box […]

Problems with Ubuntu’s new shopping lens

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Marcus Povey

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]