Category: HowTo

  • Insteon 75790 video recording & CGI API

    Insteon 75790 video recording & CGI API

    Learn how to use the CGI API and record video from your Insteon 75790 WiFi IP camera.

  • 3 Tips For Better Online Security & Privacy

    3 Tips For Better Online Security & Privacy

    Online security & privacy is more important than ever. Read now to increase your online security and to form good online privacy habits for the future.

  • Socket.IO tutorial – Find All Users In A Room

    Socket.IO tutorial – Find All Users In A Room

    How To Find All Users In A Socket.IO Room Socket.IO version 1.0+ is a complete rewrite of the popular JavaScript library for “real-time bidirectional event-based communication”. This means that a whole lot of your pre-1.0 code will simply not work; it seems they were not concerned with backwards-compatibility at all when they released 1.0.  Because…

  • Tutorial – Using KeePass With Two-Factor Authentication

    Tutorial – Using KeePass With Two-Factor Authentication

    Your Password Manager Is Insecure Unfortunately, not every website on the internet takes security all that seriously and still requires users to sign-up and authenticate with usernames and passwords.  More progressive websites have started to allow users to log-in with their existing passwords but tack on a “second factor” authentication such as an SMS/text message…

  • How To Check (And Fix) Your Website’s SSL Security

    How To Check (And Fix) Your Website’s SSL Security

    Is Your Website’s SSL Vulnerable? In this tutorial, I’ll walk through how to check your website’s HTTPS SSL certificate for common vulnerabilities and I’ll also provide some steps to easily mitigate common issues.   Check Your SSL Certificate Using The Qualys Online SSL Test What are you waiting for? Go scan your website for weak…

  • Hardening an OpenSSH 6.2+ Server in Ubuntu 14.04

    Hardening an OpenSSH 6.2+ Server in Ubuntu 14.04

    How To Secure Your OpenSSH 6.2+ Server Relearning Secure Authentication Before we even get started on securing OpenSSH you need to make sure your overall security strategy makes sense. Are you securing actual sensitive information or are you just worried about someone snooping your connection? This tutorial assumes you are protecting sensitive data and require…

  • How To Fix BootstrapValidator.js Feedback Icon for Input-Group

    How To Fix BootstrapValidator.js Feedback Icon for Input-Group

    This article will help you fix BootstrapValidator.js feedbackIcons position for Bootstrap.js input-group class using CSS.

  • Using Android KitKat with pfSense IPsec VPN

    Using Android KitKat with pfSense IPsec VPN

    Getting your Android KitKat device to work with pfSense IPsec VPN server is a finicky process and the settings on both sides need to be exact. Android only supports a small subset of common encryption schemes and this article will show you what settings to use.

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720) “FAIL (auth)” and “SW REV CHECK FAIL” fix

    Samsung Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720) “FAIL (auth)” and “SW REV CHECK FAIL” fix

    These errors indicate that the phone cannot use the ROM provided (via Samsung’s ODIN loader) because the ROM is either not legitimate or is a version prior to the one currently installed. Basically, if you’ve flashed a ROM that is Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), you will not be able to revert back to an earlier version…

  • Protecting Apache2 Against Slowloris DoS

    Protecting Apache2 Against Slowloris DoS

    Slowloris is a tool to DoS an HTTP(S) web server without performing a traditional high-bandwidth “flood” approach. I’ll give you some background on how Slowloris is so effective, even today, and how to protect your Apache servers from this type of attack.

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