Category: My Toolbox

Self-Signed Certificates can be Useful

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Self Signed Certificates another Layer There is a lot of Internet press from companies and experts alike that self-signed certificates have to go away. It is a little unfair because… Read more »

Zimbra 32 to 64 bit migration version 2

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Migrating Zimbra 7.2 32bit to 64bit on centos 6.5 I did this procedure before and I had a longer outage than I wanted. This time, we are doing it without… Read more »

Spoofing GSM Cell Base Stations

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Researcher Chris Paget pulled off a stunt at the Defcon security conference Saturday that required as much legal maneuvering as technical wizardry: eavesdropping on the cell phone calls of AT&T subscribers in front of thousands of admiring hackers.

Registrar Domain Name Transfer

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Registrar Domain Name Transfer This use to be a very simple process but in recent years steps have been added to prevent numerous abuses.  Unfortunately, we now have a process… Read more »

DEFCON 17 – SQL Injection Attacks

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SQL Injection Attacks I don’t know about you but part of my education has always been to study code and learn the latest attack techniques.  I enjoy reading code and… Read more »

Verifying your Hosting Connectivity

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Verifying your Hosting Companies Connectivity Recently I purchased a value VPS (virtual private server) from a company on the east coast. I won’t identify them because it doesn’t matter but… Read more »

Beating Domain Poachers at their Own Game

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Beating Domain Poachers at their Own Game Recently, I received an email from a 3rd party alerting me that they were going to auction off swimalberta.com and a link where… Read more »

Failing Disk or Failed Disk Woes

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Failing Disks on a Dell Laptop A friend was telling me the story of how her laptop (Dell Studio Laptop 1737) had failed and that she had taken it to… Read more »