All posts tagged security

Pyrit Benchmark for Raspberry Pi

by gyp on January 27, 2013 in Computers with No comments

I’ve been playing with my Raspberry Pi quite a bit lately, it’s a wonderful bit of kit. If you don’t have one already go and buy one! The cost/power balance is really amazing. This post is in no way a criticism of a Raspberry Pi, it is a wonderful computer made with education in mind and I am certainly learning!
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How to Install AVG Anti Virus on Ubuntu Server

by gyp on January 15, 2013 in Computers with No comments

Although in my experience Linux is much less susceptible to malware, it would be unfair to say that they are completely secure. Even if a Linux machine isn’t infected it doesn’t mean it can’t be an unsuspecting virus delivery mechanism. Although saying that a web server really shouldn’t be delivering any malware…

AVG is a widely recognised anti-malware vendor, especially in the Windows world, and we’ll be installing their Linux Antivirus on our server and then setting it for a scheduled run daily. Continue reading →

A Tinyproxy Transparent Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 with HTTPS Support

by gyp on October 8, 2012 in Business, Computers, internet with No comments

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If you want an easier way to get Tinyproxy working and don’t want to use transparent support try this post to install Tinyproxy on Ubuntu.

The repositories for Ubuntu don’t have Transparent Support enabled for Tinyproxy. Some firewalls and corporate installations need to use transparent proxies if they are internally redirecting. This post will guide you through building Tinyproxy from source on Ubuntu 12.04 as a complete installation and working system.

I couldn’t find any decent guides out there on how to make this work, so I thought I’d put one together. Hopefully my research will come in useful for someone else… Warning this is a little more in-depth than my usual tutorials, but I promise it will be worth it in the end.

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How to Install a SSL Certificate on Nginx

by gyp on July 15, 2012 in internet, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Last time I showed how easy it is to create an SSL request on Nginx, this time I’ll show you how easy it is to get your site up and running with it.

You are going to need your server.key file we created last time and the text of the SSL certificate. Most keys I’ve ever bought provide you with the actual file and the text in the email for your key.

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