Posts Tagged ‘security’
When developing SimDK I had to perform a lot of traffic captures to see what was actually occurring between vSphere clients and the vSphere SDK web service. Wireshark worked wonderfully for listening to messages between PowerShell or Perl and vCenter because these clients can connect to the vCenter server over HTTP without SSL encryption. The […]
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Tags: client, http, https, security, ssl, vmware, vsphere
I have been paranoid about my data recently, and even though I have a fairly nice backup system at home, I really wanted to get my data off-site. I have a Dreamhost account, and therefore 50G of backup space and each additional G only cost .10 USD. Since I use a central BackupPC server at […]
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Tags: 7z, 7zip, archive, backuppc, dreamhost, linux, security
I was hacked :(
More specifically, my primary server at home was hacked. It was running Ubuntu 6.06.1, Dapper Drake Server Edition LTS. The server was penetrated at 17:55 on June 29th, 2008: Jun 29 17:55:54 vault sshd[17954]: Accepted password for webcam from 62.103.28.65 port 16754 ssh2 So what happened? Well, apparently a recent OpenSSH update reset my /etc/ssh/sshd_config […]
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Tags: hack, linux, security, ubuntu
