My laptop, as you may have guessed, is a Sony VAIO TZ series (specifically VGN-TZ31VN) Not a cheap piece of equipment, I got it on the same month as it was released. There are a lot of people that absolutely … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Securing a LAMP server (Part 2)
The first part of this series on securing a LAMP server setup focused on hardening Apache (the popular web server) this article will focus on securing both MySQL and PHP. This is a fairly straight forward process and should be … Continue reading
Securing a LAMP server (Part 1)
Weather you are just starting out and want some basic tips or you have run a server for a while there comes a point when you realise a need for security on it, by default a lot of configurations are … Continue reading
Android as a pentesting platform
So you want to use your android device as a penetration testing platform. Maybe pulling a laptop out and hacking away is too obvious and you need to be a bit more surreptitious. You might just want to impress your … Continue reading
Self-study security (Part 2)
Ok, so you’ve decided your interested in security or some aspect of it but are unsure how to get started, where to look, if it’s really the right thing for you. Like me you probably want to jump straight in … Continue reading
Unblock thepiratebay
As I’m guessing a lot of people are awear a law has passed in the uk blocking access to the website thepiratebay, arguably the most popular BitTorrent tracker on the internet. I am with BT and I now get the … Continue reading
Web development life-cycle
The life-cycle of creating a website from scratch is not an exact science, it varies from site to site, it is different for each persons requirements, sometimes different parts take longer than others, focus is constantly changing and it’s nonlinear … Continue reading