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I always cringe when I hear people telling others to ‘just accept the certificate’ when their browser warns them that it is invalid, so I’m going to attempt to use a Billy Joel song and an old TV commercial asking if you’ve ‘ever hired a movie that just wasn’t quite ‘right’, to attempt to explain what browser certificate warnings actually mean and why accepting an invalid certificate could cast rather a gloom over the evening. Continue Reading

To analyse the cna12 MySQL attacks, I had to install MySQL Express Server as the attacks were prematurely exiting when connecting to Dionaea. Extracting the binary files from the libpcap files was annoying, so I decided to change Dionaea so that it would automatically extract the binary files used in the cna12 attacks. Continue Reading