Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive techniques I can find for remoteoperating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is the process of transmitting packets Read more…
Online tool to help you judge your cyber resilience and provide training The tool is available on the NCSC website. It’s available for free and helps an organisation practice in a safe environment. It’s taken a year to build, can be used by technical and non technical staff. The system Read more…
This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
What is a WAF A WAF is a web application firewall. A Web Application Firewall protects HTTP applications (eg websites) using a set of rules to protect against various common attacks, such as SQL Injection and Cross site scripting (XSS). Mod Security Web Application Firewall Mod_Security is an apache (and Read more…
A comparison of service-oriented architecture and frameworks IntroductionPapazoglou, (2003) organised SOA in four architectural layers: Service Foundations, Service Composition, Service Management and Service Engineering and outlined a host of technologies that could be utilised when developing and deploying an SOA system to overcome the challenges of a distributed enterprise system, Read more…
Migrate music from itunes to google play. 1) goto play.google.com/music 2) sign up (the free service is fine, when it asks for a payment, you can select ‘google play balance’) 3) go here for instructions form google 4) go here: to get the google music manager to upload your tracks Read more…
With my ticket I had access to the networking after-event thing. it was a nice chilled way to end the first day. there were a lot of people and a great buzz (and free beer)
This is a burpsuite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks. Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated attacks Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
Hardening ssl ciphers. I wrote a post previously about disabling sslv2 and enabling sslv3 and tlsv1. Times have changed since then, its been best-practice for a long time now to only use tlsv1.1 and tlsv1.2 with forward secrecy. This post replaces the previous post, and will be updated with the Read more…
We got up early today for breakfast as we are spending the day in Sorrento and Pompeii – I had toast and a croissant and 2 coffees, Zoe had toast, scrambled egg and an almond cake thing and a coffee. Sorrento and Pompeii After breakfast went to the room and Read more…
O2 just upgraded my phone to 4g for free. when I first got this phone (5c) I didnt really need 4g – it wasnt worth the difference in price. I still dont need it – everywhere I go has a wifi connection, but its nice to get something for free Read more…
Apple have recalled all the 64gb and 128gb ssd drives that are installed in macbook air’s bought between june 2012 and june 2013 if you have an affected machine, you can find more info on apples site: http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair-flashdrive/ I was unlucky, I purchased two macbook airs in june 2012, and Read more…
Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
Tapatalk forum app for iPhone is now free. I participate in a lot of forums: imore macrumours digital point ubuntu forums and lots of others I first found tapatalk a while back and I use it every day. a few of the features that you’ll like: iCloud sync: Tapatalk remembers Read more…
This post will show you how to delete the backups of your iphone or ipad from itunes on your mac / pc with icloud you no longer need to make backups of your iphone or ipad in itunes, backups are sent automatically to icloud. to free up the space from Read more…
Seomoz has lots of great information. I subscribe to their blog posts to make sure that I keep up to date on the latest findings and developments across the seo world. but SEO takes a lot of time, and its easy to forget things. I try to spend a couple Read more…
This post is a comparison of the various email clients available on mac osx (and some mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives if you are looking for them – Ive included sparrow in the list aswell so that others might learn its awesomeness) 1) mail.app features: imap, pop, exchange, Read more…
I wrote before about how to use your iphone as a game controller to use with a snes / playstation emulator on your mac the app that I used then has been replaced, with a new version that only works with ipad games, unfortunately :( they do have a ‘legacy’ Read more…
Itunes match is excellent. it scans your library, and matches the songs it knows against apples massive database. once thats done you can then download high quality DRM free versions of the matched tracks you can also listen to your entire library on your iphone, ipad and appletv but if Read more…
Using your iphone or ipod touch as a SNES or NES or Playstation controller. This is a really cool thing to do with your playstation psx emulator on mac osx! simply download the free joypad app on your iphone or ipod touch once you have the app you will need Read more…
This is my list of 100 places to get free legal music downloads online www.largeheartedboy.com have a list with lots on it itunes is good for free music itsfreedownloads.com have a list of the latest free tracks on iTunes Amazon mp3 store has a lot of free stuff too last.fm Read more…
RTAS (real time audio suite) plugins are plugins for protools systems. You can get free rtas plugins for protools if you know where to look. There are a lot of expensive plugins out there, and there are a lot of plugins that you get bundled with your protools systems. here Read more…
Teamviewer is an excellent (and free for non commercial use) remote access and remote desktop app for mac, linux and windows. and it now has an iphone/ipad app. it lets me log in to all of my machines remotely from eachother and I can now access them from my iphone Read more…
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight search to disable spotlight search suggestions and free up some resources on your machine. There are lots of scenarios where Read more…
Basecamp is an excellent tool to help manage projects. any type of project. they have an account that lets you have one project for free – this post explains adding basecamp todos and milestones from email :) one problem with basecamp is the time it takes to setup todo lists and Read more…
Today we went to the harbour, had lunch, took some photos, I got a local sim card for my phone with 200mb free data which should do for a week if I ration it. we then came back to the hotel and slept. for dinner we got room service :)
This post will show you a range of ways to detect and remove unused css from your site. removing unused css will help your stylesheets load faster which, in turn will help your site load faster. there are several ways to do this. one way is to use a firefox Read more…
Free carrier unlock for uk o2 iphone without jailbreak. this will show you how to unlock your iphone by going to the O2 website and filling in a form. its free for contract users and it costs £15 for pay as you go users. I got an email the other Read more…
Health apps are a big category for iphone, ipod and ipad apps. there are loads available, some work and are useful, some dont and arent. ive tried hundreds of them, and here are the ones I think might be of use to you nike+ http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ iphone / ipod appp tracks Read more…
A list of some useful tools for managing your twitter accounts. they have been divided into two categories: 1) follower management 2) analytics 1) follower management wefollow.com – fill in your details so that others can follow you untweeps.com can use 3 times a month to unfollow stale peoples tweepi.com Read more…
Well, the good news is that the mac app store will update your existing apps. but only when you install them again through the app store. and only when they are free ones. and only when they are in your applications folder. guess I need to move everything back there Read more…
ive been using my ipad for a couple of months now and I have been trying out a boatload of apps. im using it like a replacement for my laptop, not for anything that needs the power of my macbook pro, but for most lightweight tasks it is perfect. here Read more…
A free iphone guitar tuner. just incase you end up in the situation that you need to tune a guitar. im usually ok without, unless I have stressed ears, or im drunk. then it gets really frustrating. so if you ever find yourself in need: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pitchperfect/id380781526?mt=8&uo=4
Last night my girl and I were invited along to mumford and sons by a really nice couple we know. they managed to get us in for free too, which was excellent! the gig itself was fantastic. truly the best audience ive seen in a long time. maybe even better Read more…
Today I am going to share some html css and wcag v2 aaa validation tools with you. these things will help to make sure your site performs as well as it can, and as fast as it can. google have announced that they are now counting the loading time of Read more…
Some tips for your wordpress blog before you can optimise for search: header tags make sure you have the proper header tags in your pages dont make the title of your blog be an h1 tag only have one h1 tag per page make sure the h1 tag is on Read more…
i will show you an alternative to using stickies and notes. it also allows syncing between your iphone and your mac simplenote iphone app (search for simplenote in the app store) simplenote client for mac (selfcoded.com/justnotes) they are simple to use, they sync with each other. its free. all notes Read more…