Recently I came across a discussion on a Mac forum with some people discussing how shocking it was that Apple had been recommending that its Macintosh customers consider using anti-virus software. This is a discussion that has always raised my ire, as the supposed superior security of the Mac has always been an issue of [...]
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Disable Anonymous Edits in MediaWiki
October 14th, 2008 1 Comment
It didn’t take me forever to find this, but I felt it was simple enough that it bore re-posting. If you’ve ever wanted to disable anonymous editing of articles in a mediawiki-based wiki (the ones that look & feel like wikipedia…) there’s a simple one-line fix: In your LocalSettings.php file, add this to the bottom: [...]
Tags: access · Admin Tools · anonymous · authorization · disable · edits · howto · Mediawiki · php · prevent · secure · Security · wiki
Do You Protect Your Twitter?
August 23rd, 2008 3 Comments
A few months back I was beeing bombarded by what seemed an ever-increasing number of twitter spammers. This means they’re following me. To end the insanity I finally decided to make my profile private which eliminated almost all of the spam but seriously crippled the number of friend requests I was getting. I carried this [...]
Waxing Poetic on the DNS Incident
August 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
For those of you who haven’t been following recent security news, there’s been a major defect found in the DNS protocol which has led to a series of patches for all forms of DNS servers. Though the issue doesn’t affect most peoples’ home computers, it does affect pretty much every ISP on the planet as [...]
Tags: Community · Geeky · Internet · Open Source · Security · Tech News
WordPress 2.6 Launches new Security Feature
July 17th, 2008 1 Comment
WordPress 2.6 launched earlier this week and among the new features in this seemingly solid build is a significant security enhancement for how WP handles cookies. Essentially what it boils down to is WP has separated cookies used for accessing the admin interface through HTTPS (SSL) and regular unsecured HTTP. This allows for login information [...]
Tags: Blogging · Open Source · Security