Tag: Infosec
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Detecting Bots in Apache & Nginx Logs
Posted on March 12, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Mark Litwintschik put together this article to help server admins with separating bot and human-generated traffic in web server logs, which can be challenging.
Tags nginx servers infosec
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Dovecot - World's most popular email server praised as near-impenetrable
Posted on January 29, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
It isn't often that good news makes headlines, especially in the security world. Dovecot bucked the trend earlier this month, with a cybersecurity audit that praised the mail server as "near-impenetrable".
Tags servers infosec
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Learn how to use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for much Authentication win!
Posted on January 21, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Learn how to use JSON Web Token (JWT) to secure your Web and/or Mobile Application!
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SSH Encryption and Connection Process
Posted on January 20, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article explains internals of SSH. SSH, or secure shell, is a secure protocol and the most common way of safely administering remote servers.
Tags infosec
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Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers
Posted on January 18, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Max Veytsman post touches security consideration when working with HTTP headers. The article explains what secure headers are and how to implement these headers in Rails, Django, Express.js, Go, Nginx, and Apache.
Tags infosec
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Spring REST API + OAuth2 + AngularJS
Posted on January 15, 2017, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Eugen Paraschiv wrote this tutorial about securing a REST API with OAuth and consume it from a simple AngularJS client.
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Rotate Passwords with Ansible and HashiVault
Posted on January 13, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Doug Bridgens post on how to rotate passwords. Rotating application layer passwords is hard. Not because changing a password in some database is difficult, it's often only a single command.
Tags devops infosec
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Security and Microservices by Sam Newman
Posted on January 9, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length 1 hour
Inspiring talk from Sam Newman about securing microservices archotecture.
Tags microservices infosec
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Node Hero - Node.js Authentication using Passport.js
Posted on January 9, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length super long
This is the 8th part of the tutorial series called Node Hero - in these chapters, you can learn how to get started with Node.js and deliver software products using it.
Tags nodejs javascript infosec