An old friend and classmate of mine, Zahid Faisal, wanted to know how to access/read event logs on a remote server using Windows PowerShell. I thought it was an interesting challenge, so after some research and playing around I found that you can make use of the WMI objects to do this. Follow along to [...]
Have you ever had the need to watch and inspect HTTP headers in real time while pages are being downloaded from the Internet? If you develop web applications or sites, I’m sure you have. If so, check out the Live HTTP Headers plugin for Firefox. Not only will it capture what’s currently being downloaded, but [...]
Phishing is serious business, so a while back I looked around for safeguards to assist me while browsing. In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques.[1] Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay [...]
I caught the flu last week that’s why I haven’t been posting regularly. =0( Anyway, I wrote previously on how to password-protect a website/page, but in this post I’ll show you how to redirect a user automagically to HTTPS. All you need to do is add the following in the .htaccess file (I’ll be using [...]
If you need to support or serve your website using SSL, but only for personal purposes, such as a webmail, you’ve probably come across the problem of creating your own server certificate. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging [...]