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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

VPN services leak info via IPv6

Posted by: admin 9 years, 6 months ago

Earlier this year, we released a set of packer scripts that allow you to easily build a two-factor ready openvpn virtual appliance.  We have updated the scripts to turn off IPv6 because it seems that VPN services using Openvpn can leak information via IPv6.  (This was surely the easy fix. There may be better ones.)

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Bridging Gunnar Gaps to create virtual circles

Posted by: admin 9 years, 7 months ago

If you haven't read Gunnar Peterson's post Security, Fast and Slow, please do so now.  It is about how Security's natural tendencies grate the natural tendencies of Development.  Security needs to adapt to make it easier for Development to make the right decisions to bridges such gaps.  I now call these "Gunnar Gaps". 

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The two things that actually work in information security and how to deploy them.

Posted by: admin 9 years, 7 months ago

I was struck by this tweet by @chrisrollf:
2FA and VPNs - 2 things that work

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Sophos & Two-factor authentication

Posted by: admin 9 years, 7 months ago

We tested integrating WiKID for two-factor authentication to a Sophos UTM VPN.  We documented the SSL-VPN, the LT2P /IPSec VPN and locking down administrator access.  Before you do any of these, you must first enable two-factor authentication on the Sophos VPN.

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How can I install Oracle JDK 8 from the command line?

Posted by: root 9 years, 8 months ago

Note that you can install openjdk 8:

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