With Google, Microsoft and every major technological giants sunsetting sha-1 due to it’s vulnerability, sha256 is the new standard. It seems to be an issue almost all Infrastructure Administrators are facing right now. Those who are using managed PKI console, it’s very easy and straight forward and the signing authority …
Read More »Encrypting and decrypting files with password in Linux
Sometimes you need to send a file containing sensitive information across to someone over internet and you started thinking, “Gee, I’ve got some pretty sensitive information in the file. How can I send it securely?” There are many ways to send encrypted files. A good way for encrypting files is using …
Read More »3D Robotics reveals its new 3DR Solo Quadcopter running on Linux
I am big fan of QuadCopters. Just the look of them reminds me of my childhood fantasies of traveling around unknown alien world on a weirdly looking powerful aircraft. A new drone from 3D Robotics named Solo just got my attention. If you are a fan of QuaCopters, 3DR Solo …
Read More »New Mozilla Firefox Version 37.0 fixed 13 security issues and introduced Opportunistic Encryption support
Mozilla Foundation just released it’s latest Firefox (Version 37.0). It’s been rolled out for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android operating systems. Those who don’t know, it was released on the week of March 31st. Well to be honest, as of writing this article, Version 37.0.1 was already out on April …
Read More »Setup DHCP or static IP address from command line in Linux
Did you ever had trouble with Network Manager and felt that you need to try to setup DHCP or static IP address from command Line in Linux? I once accidentally removed Gnome (my bad, wasn’t paying attention and did an apt-get autoremove -y .. how bad is that.. ) So …
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