Archive for June, 2003

Hacked! (2003-6-8)

I'm up to my ears recovering from a recent hack. This one (surprisingly) was my Linux server, and the hacker did a real number on it. Most of the critical functions are still working (notably qmail did not miss a beat), but he planted so many trojans around that I've decided the only solution is [...]

I am Mokusu Sese-Seko… (2003-6-3)

Everybody's gotten those ridiculous Nigerian scam letters, right? The ones where you are exhorted to assist with transferring some ungodly sum of money, in return for which you will receive a somewhat smaller ungodly sum of money? Heck, I get ten a week! Well here's a link to a somewhat humorous story [via BoingBoing] about [...]

Self-Signed IIS SSL Certificates using OpenSSL (2003-6-2)

This is being re-posted as a blog entry so that folks can leave comments…I had a great note by email today with additional information that folks may find useful, so I figured this would make it easier to add information. UPDATE 3/5/2004: Re-posted (yet again) in the new blogging system to allow for live comments.  The old URL still works [...]