Note: this is not the NATIS site, nor does it have any association with it. If you’re looking for the booking system, click this link. Update: it looks like the CATPCHA is now required for every request, so at least an…
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Natis online booking, and the government being too helpful.
Tagged with: government, privacy, security, you're-too-helpful-guys
Posted in Government, Privacy, Security
Posted in Government, Privacy, Security
Crawling for cyber zama-zamas
Wow So, this post has everything. Crypto-currency. High-speed internet chases. Adventure. Excitement. Government negligence. Life lessons. Spiders. Morphing websites. Inside jobs. Ohhh boy. Crypto-mining: it’s like modern alchemy, turning electricity into gold. Tiny tiny tiny pieces of gold. The uber-summary…
Tagged with: crawling, cryptocurrency, government, java, miner, security
Posted in Front-end, Java, Javascript, Security, Technology
Posted in Front-end, Java, Javascript, Security, Technology
JBoss EAP 6 – encrypt password for SecureIdentityLoginModule
Quick snippet on password encryption for the org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule which is relatively version agnostic. From your JBoss directory, run
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java -cp "modules/system/layers/base/org/picketbox/main/*;modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/logging/main/*" org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule EXAMPLE_PASSWORD |
It’ll output the encrypted password, which you can update your configuration with. If you get an error, like
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Error: Could not find or load main class org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule |
It’s most likely…
Creating / renewing a Let’s Encrypt certificate for Apache and WildFly
These instructions were written for Ubuntu 16, but they should translate quite easily to other flavours of *nix, relatively easily for macOS, and with only small tweaks for Windows. Probably. Apache Renewing the Apache portion of the certificate is fairly…
#OpAfrica hits vreport
Super-brief introduction So, #OpAfrica are being very busy little bees. I’m trying to mentally process the data dumped from the Water Affairs leak (both in terms of scale and apparent incompetence), so just to be thorough here’s a look at…
GCIS Data Breach
Introduction The GCIS is the Government Communication and Information System. It’s not entirely clear from its name what that means. From their website, To provide professional services, to set and influence adherence to standards for an effective government communication system,…