8 April 2008
Well, after a long while of doing nothing, I've finally decided to update this blog. For reasons unknown (laziness) I've pretty much neglected the thing for half a year.
So it happens that Godaddy were kind enough to remind me that my hosting package had expired, and that I needed to pay. Well, I didn't pay. However, as you can probably guess, I've moved the site to another host.
The host isn't only a host, but rather a VPS (virtual private server). It's pretty much weak, has only 64MB of RAM, but it's not like I have any traffic that would be affected by that.
The advantage however is that I have full root access, a dedicated IP, and a fairly generous bandwidth limitation. Considering all this, and the fact that it comes for 7$ a month, I was instantly sold.
(The company is VPSLink, by the way, and by far they were great.)
I've also installed mod_ssl on httpd, and made a self signed certificate. The "Use SSL" button above links to just that.
A self signed cert isn't much, but I don't have the resources or will to get anything more serious. Anyway, the thing still encrypts the pages, and makes sure no one intercepts them on the way to you. (Unless they're using a MITM attack, and that's what real CA certificates should protect you from).
All that said and done, I hope I'll find the drive to frequently write here.
Posted by: kGen | In category: Site news | Comments (1)
30 September 2007
And there will be light!
Seems that everything is working now. Well, almost everything. For the next few days the "search" and "user options" features won't be available. Why, you ask? Simple. I didn't implement them yet... This is the price you pay for making a custom system.
So, since this post is here to stay, I'll give you a brief intro into what this whole site deals with. As you can see, my <title> tag gives you out a few keywords about what's gonna be in here. Webappsec, SEO, and more related stuff.
Let me elaborate on each of those separately.
In case you didn't know, "Webappsec" stands for "Web Application Security".
In todays world, information is everything. And thanks to the Internet, it's also everywhere. Traditional info. security was focused on finding and eliminating known software bugs like buffer overflows, by one errors, and the like. Back then, you could fire a debugger on the buggy program, and detect whatever problem was disturbing you.
Today, info. security is different. Since everything is connected into a live giant web, you can't just sit back and debug everything you want as long as you want to. If you've got some interesting data hosted on the net, it won't wait for you to be protected.
The web is based on identical protocols, that have similar implementations. Webappsec is all about finding security problems in those implementations, or even the protocols themselves. Hence making you able to audit live websites (or networks), quickly and seamlessly.
This site will also deal with SEO, Search Engine Optimization.
Not all information needs to stay under the cloak. On the contrary, most info. online is made in order to be read by the public. And for that purpose, we've got search engines. If people can find you on those, you can rest assured that the visitors on your website are enjoying whatever it is you serve them.
If you want to be "visible" online, you need to rank high on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the rest of the SEs. Learning SEO tactics is going to let you do just that. No matter what you write about, or what you sell, smart SEO will always increase the traffic to your website. On the net, that's pretty much all you can wish for.
This site will also deal with other topics. I promise to give away some sources of my own (php, anyone?), and guide you through the development stages of various features.
Anyway, this site is mainly a blog. It will contain mostly NEWS about the topics I mentioned. But don't worry, I'm planning to give the "articles" section a great deal of my time, so this site can deal with more general stuff too.
So that's it for this post. Hope anyone reads this. Guess I'm going to apply some SEO here myself...
Posted by: kGen | In category: Site news | Comments (3)
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