Happiness abandoned Twitter this week as it was revealed that an 18-year-old was able to use an automated password-guesser to break into an account. Twitter allowed for an unlimited number of log-in attempts. The hacker used a simple dictionary attack that revealed at 11:00am Monday the password of “happiness.” Once the hacker [...]
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Posted in Apache, MySQL, RTIR, Request Tracker on Aug 7th, 2008
In our last post, “Request Tracker Installation (Part 2 of 2),” we implemented Request Track (RT) on an Apache web server. As a reminder, RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which allows for the checking of the status of various tasks including when the tasks were requested, who requested the tasks and why, when [...]
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Posted in Apache, Leopard, Links, Mac OS X, ModSecurity, MySQL, NIST, OpenSSL, PHP, Request Tracker on Aug 3rd, 2008
Awhile back, I posted “Request Tracker Installation (Part 1 of 2),” which provided information and additional links concerning Request Tracker (RT). As a reminder, RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which allows for the checking of the status of various tasks including when the tasks were requested, who requested the tasks and why, [...]
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