Free Post Weekend Project Weekend project: Server Upgrade I run my own server at home to handle various tasks and whilst it was an awesome bargain when I got it, I wanted to give it a little bump...
Free Post Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt are enabling the bad guys, and why they should I don't think anyone can disagree with the tremendous amount of progress that has been made in deploying web encryption over the last year or so and Let&...
Free Post monitoring Launching my new server monitoring dashboard: Horizon I'm a sucker for pretty graphs. I love dashboards. That feeling of knowing just how everything is going at any given time is quite soothing. I recently replaced...
Free Post azure Azure Functions with the PHP Storage SDK I recently made some changes to report-uri.io [https://report-uri.io] to introduce some sensible usage limits. As part of those limits I'd already introduced the...
Free Post crawl Alexa Top 1 Million Analysis - Feb 2017 It's time for the 4th instalment of my Alexa Top 1 Million scan and I've added a heap of new metrics to the crawler for analysis....
Free Post Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency, an introduction Certificate Transparency is an open framework for monitoring and auditing the certificates issued by Certificate Authorities in near real-time. By requiring a CA to log all certificates they generate,...
Free Post CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead! After toiling with Cross-Site Request Forgery on the web for, well forever really, we finally have a proper solution. No technical burden on the site owner, no difficult implementation, it's trivially simple to deploy, it's Same-Site Cookies. As...
Free Post securityheaders.io A new security header: Referrer Policy Regular readers will know how fond I am of the existing security headers so it's great to hear that we're getting another! Referrer Policy will allow...
Free Post ocsp OCSP Expect-Staple OCSP Expect-Staple is a new reporting mechanism to allow site owners to monitor how reliable their OCSP Stapling implementation is. With live feedback coming direct from the browser, you...
Free Post OCSP Stapling OCSP Must-Staple Revocation checking is broken and has been for some time. Whilst some vendors have sort of worked around this with proprietary solutions, there is little that the smaller sites can...
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