HPE C7000 Blade Chassis SSL Certificate Replacement

The SSL/TLS certificates on my HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) C7000 blade chassis expired this week and therefore required replacing. I’m a strong believer in always replacing certificates with valid ones generated by a certificate authority (CA). In my mind there isn’t much excuse in a business to not have an internal CA for this sort … Read more

Finding Wireless Networks With Aircrack-ng

I rarely write articles on security or ‘hacking’ even though this is an area I have a great deal of interest in – unfortunately work often pulls me in other directions. Today I thought I’d start with something basic which may interest readers and then perhaps future articles will build on this. Let us begin … Read more

Change Supermicro IPMI Admin Password

Changing default passwords is a vital task – it is never a good idea to leave any system credentials as they come ‘out of the box’. With that in mind I’m changing the password on the IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) admin account for my two Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T servers.   First off I log onto … Read more

Trend Micro Smart Protection Server Deployment

Trend Micro products leverage the ‘Smart Protection Network’ (SPN) which is essentially Trend Micros cloud network providing analysis and protection against malware and other malicious threats. The enterprise protection products have the ability to talk direct to the SPN or you can install a local appliance and configure your systems to talk to that and … Read more

HPE 3PAR Management Console Secure Connection

If you have used the HPE 3PAR management console (IMC) you will know that the logon prompt has a tick box for ‘Secure Connection’. In this post I will demonstrate why you should not connect without this option selected. This post is specific to the traditional IMC client which is being deprecated in favour of … Read more

HPE 3PAR SSH Key Authentication

Passwords are not going to vanish any time soon but there are better ways of authenticating to a system both in terms of convenience and security. HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) 3PAR arrays support the use of SSH keys for authentication and this post will discuss their setup and use.   What are SSH keys? SSH … Read more

Microsoft Webmaster Account Signup – Password Limitation

I just signed up to enable Microsoft webmaster tools for this site and while doing so encountered an interesting error message with regard to password length – I must say this surprises me greatly though to be fair this isn’t the first time I have come across this problem. I have previously liaised with other … Read more