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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…
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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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The FIDO Alliance’s “Second Factor Experience” In A Nutshell
The FIDO Alliance is a conglomerate of top technology corporations (Microsoft, Google, Oberthur, NXP, Paypal, etc…) aiming to create standardized enhanced authentication with specific goals of “Passwordless Authentication” (UAF) and “Second Factor Authentication” (U2F). Essentially, they want to be able to framework how companies provide secure access to their web resources as well as how…
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Authentication solutions comparison
There’s a lot of debate in the information security industry about what the next-gen solution will be for authenticating users into services (websites, applications, etc…). I’ve collected a list of suggested authentication solutions (both hardware and software mechanisms) and will try to shed some light on their pros and cons.
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LogMeIn Rescue SAML 2.0 Authentication Tips
I’ve dealt with a lot of integration projects involving Single Sign-On using SAML2.0 but LogMeIn Rescue’s process for achieving this threw me for a loop initially. I’d like to share a little insight to hopefully help others achieve SSO using LMI Rescue with minimal pain.
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HowTo: Fix VMware error “No more space for virtual disk”
VMware snapshots will grow over time as they have to maintain a delta file to track what changes have happened to the VM since the snapshot was taken. These will eat up space if left for long periods of time and can eventually consume all of the avaiable free space (thus causing this error).
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HowTo: Install Android KitKat 4.4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S4 (Sprint)
This tutorial walks you through installing Android 4.4.2 Kit Kat [OmniROM] on your Samsung Galaxy S4 for Sprint networks.
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Dell Inspiron 1545 upgrades on the cheap
There are 3 areas I’d like to cover as upgrades that either improve performance or just ones that I’ve done myself that I’d like to share. There are a lot of question marks about which CPUs or Wireless adapters are compatible. I will tell you what I know for fact will work and what the…
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Dell Inspiron 1545 Wireless Adapter Upgrade (802.11agn 5 GHz WiFi + Bluetooth 4.0)
After recently moving to a new house, I decided to take some time to carefully plan out my home network. One of the sore points of living in a city is that you have neighbors; lots of neighbors with WiFi APs polluting the 2.4 GHz band. I wanted to avoid this at all costs and…
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Great food, cool cats, and more…
I’d like to share a blog that my friend, Caitlin, runs. You’ll be sure to find articles with insight into modern internet users, food pictures/recipes (my favorite), as well as the internet’s current focus, pictures of cats. I love seeing people I know put hard work into running a website/blog and love to be able…