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How to Install a Comodo Positive SSL Certificate on Nginx

April 30, 2016June 5, 2017 Sam Kear 2 Comments

Earlier this week Namecheap sent me a reminder that it was time to renew the SSL certificate for my website.  Honestly I’m not sure why they use the term “renew” when essentially you have to go through the entire process over again which can be a huge pain. Namecheap offers PositiveSSL certificates from Comodo for $9/year which […]

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Taking a Look at #RefRef – The Latest Denial of Service Tool From Anonymous

November 13, 2011July 14, 2012 Sam Kear 1 Comment

The hacking group Anonymous recently released a new denial of service tool called #RefRef.  Previously the tool of choice for Anonymous supports was Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC).  LOIC is basically a brute force denial of service application that floods the target with TCP or UDP packets.  Unlike LOIC #RefRef uses an SQL injection vulnerability […]

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Google Image Results Hijacked by Fake AntiVirus Malware

May 6, 2011July 14, 2012 Sam Kear 11 Comments

Last month I blogged about auto-generated content farms and the methods I have been using to shut them down.  During the past month these spam sites have been busy spreading throughout the internet creating more garbage for me to sift through every time I try to search for something. I’ve also seen a huge increase […]

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Shutting Down Auto-generated Content Farms

April 13, 2011July 14, 2012 Sam Kear 1 Comment

Lately the internet is becoming more and more polluted with content farms.  Some people consider sites like eHow to be a content farm but at least their content is still created by humans.  I’m not saying that eHow is a good site by any means but personally I’m mostly concerned with auto-generated content farms. These […]

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Analyzing Suspicious Files With VirusTotal

February 12, 2011July 14, 2012 Sam Kear Leave a comment

I often come across suspicious files that I don’t entirely trust are free of malware or viruses.  People often forward me emails with attachments asking me to let them know if they are safe to open.  I also downlaod quite a bit of software from various sources on the internet.  While I could just rely […]

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