The evolution of ciphers is on-going. Ever since the Edward Snowden revelations that NIST had purposely weakened RSA there’s been a relentless effort to improve security for cryptographers, coders and mathematicians. Thankfully, Cipherlist.eu provides updated cipher lists for popular open-source servers that keeps with the latest cipher suites. Cipher configuration that are provided include: Apache…
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Through the use of so called ‘content-filtering’, Air Canada and Tim Hortons, with the help of DataValet, are now engaged in the business of determining what information can be accessed on the Internet while connected to WiFi. That’s right, the coffee and donut chain, and the Chinese-national owned Air Canada have self-declared themselves ambassadors of…
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In order to build a npm packages you might need to take several days or weeks to get your package “publish ready”. During the course of development you will definately want to test locally quite often to ensure stability of your module. This is a short guide on doing exactly that. First, create your package…
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Web developers rejoice, there’s a new web development environment on the block that will make your life easier, introducing DVLBX, aka, devilbox. While we’re not huge fans of the name, we get the tongue in cheek that Cytopia had in mind. Congratulations on this awesome release Cytopia, your project is truly excellent. One thing you…
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Note these instructions are for the omnibus installation of GitLab v10+. If you have a server live on the internet that can be resolved using a FQDN then you might want to use Gitlab’s new built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate tool. suSelf-signed certificates are most useful for internal servers that aren’t accessible from the Internet. These…
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Are you looking for a fast, reliable and easy IP lookup tool? Look no further! You can easily lookup your current IP address with WhatIP.ca. WhatIP.ca also provides you with useful information such as: Web Browser User-Agent Service Provider Name IP Geo Location Lookup Other free tools availabe on WhatIP.ca include: MX Record Lookup Domain…
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At first, if you are coming from the world of SQL these concepts may seem a bit foreign and contrary to your existing ‘best-practices’. Specifically when designing a data model for SQL databases one must try to reduce cardinality and strive for normalization. This is not the case with noSQL databases. The important distinction between…
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NSA hack tools are being exploited by several groups who are demanding ransom payment in crypto currency. This is just the latest in a recent string of events which have led to various government tools turned against the public. When there is a trend this tends to indicate non-randomness. Consequently we advise eyeryone to operate…
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In the security community these tools had been sold at auction. The encrypted files were being passed around but without a decryption they were worthless. Now the tools have been released to the public as the group responsible has publicly disclosed the decryption key. Interested minds can view the hacking tools at this github address: https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP…
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It’s always difficult to create a global top 5 list of any kind. Here goes our top 5 tech skills for 2017. Javascript This language can be used everywhere. Thanks to node.js and an active community it’s blue skies for Javascript programmers and its surrogates users such as CoffeeScript and Typescript. More and more interesting…
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