Free Post license Why my blog is Creative Commons licensed I've had a fairly interesting conversation a couple of times about why I chose to license my blog under a Creative Commons license and particularly why I allowed...
Free Post Incapsula Analysing massive traffic volumes on report-uri.io After the two year birthday of report-uri.io I wanted to take a look at where the service is and just how much work it's doing on a...
Free Post charger How I almost burnt my hotel down with a 'genuine' MacBook Pro charger I've had my trusty MacBook Pro (mid-2009) for many years now and the original charger was starting to show its age. I wanted to replace it and bought...
Free Post OCSP Stapling Designing a new Security Header: Expect-Staple I've talked about OCSP Stapling in the past and more recently about the new Must-Staple flag you can set in your certificates, but there's a bit...
Free Post nomx nomx: The world's most secure communications protocol I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n13xtmd5], alongside Professor Alan Woodward [https://twitter.com/ProfWoodward], to analyse...
Free Post report-uri.io Imperva Incapsula are now supporting report-uri.io With a constantly increasing traffic load to contend with, report-uri.io needs some support. Fortunately for us some help came from Imperva Incapsula who are now protecting report-uri.io with...
Free Post HTTPS Certificate Authority Authorization CAA is a new mechanism that will allow site owners to specify which Certificate Authorities are authorised to issue certificates for their domain name. It's a simple DNS record so setup is a breeze and SSL Labs is now checking for it,...
Free Post crawl Publishing my daily crawler data for wider analysis I've been running crawls of the Alexa Top 1 Million and publishing results every 6 months for the last 2 years. As promised I'm now opening...
Free Post Certificate Transparency A new security header: Expect-CT With the October 2017 deadline approaching for compliance with Chrome's Certificate Transparency policy, sites can use the new Expect-CT header to determine if they're ready. It&...
Free Post CSP CSP reports now indicate their disposition! Up until now we've had to rely on GET parameters to identify whether CSP reports were enforced or sent as part of a report-only policy. This added friction...
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