Category: Security
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Wildcard Let’s Encrypt Certificates with Certbot and GCP
As of last month (March 8th-ish, 2018), Let’s Encrypt supports wildcard certificates! This is great news, because it means that those of us who like using tons of subdomains can now get one cert for all our subdomains, rather than having to get a cert for every single subdomain. As you may know, Certbot is […]
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Running WordPress with TLS/SSL on Apache and Nginx as Reverse Proxy
Getting WordPress running properly on Apache with Nginx running as a reverse proxy is surprisingly difficult. It took me quite awhile to get all the moving parts in order, but it’s great once you get it all done. Plus, it’s really cool to get an A+ rating from SSL Labs: Configuring Nginx for the Switch […]
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Open Wi-Fi & Wireless Security
I’ve recently been thinking about Wireless Security, and the way it relates to ‘public access points’. It seems to me that it’s very difficult for us to avoid public networks altogether (whether we’re at a hotel, a coffee shop, or really anywhere else). Sometimes, we really need to connect, even if we have some burning […]