Session cookies are often seen as one of the biggest problems for security and privacy with HTTP, yet often times, it's necessary to utilize it to maintain state in modern web applications. By default, it is insecure and vulnerable to be intercepted by an authorized party. Cookies typically store session identifiers that may offer full access to an account, therefore if a cookie is intercepted, … [Read more...]
How to Create Key Pair Using Kleopatra (GnuPG)
If you need to find a free solution to encrypt file or email, Gpg4win (GNU Privacy Guard for Windows) may be more than enough encryption than what you need. It is a free software and pretty straightforward to install. Before you can use it though, you need to create a key pair first and this may be confusing to beginners. Here are the steps to generate a key pair in GPG4Win Kleopatra: … [Read more...]
How to Use cURL HTTP/2 on macOS
cURL is one of most powerful tools for testing HTTP traffic. We typically use cURL to interact with HTTP APIs or test websites. Although cURL supports HTTP/2, the version that's installed on macOS Sierra does not. Read Update. If you try to use the --http2 flag, you'll receive the following error: Fortunately, we can use another installation from Homebrew alongside the default … [Read more...]
DuckDuckGo as Default Search Engine in Chrome
If you want to use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine in Google Chrome browser, here are a few steps you need to follow to set that up: Go to Settings Under Search heading, select Manage search engines... Under Other search engines box, fill in the form in this order:DuckDuckGoduckduckgohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s Click Done and open Manage search engines... again. Make the … [Read more...]
Free and Paid Stock Photos Sites
One sure way to enhance your blog is to put images on its pages. However, we can't just take any pictures on the web and add it to our website due to copyright infringement issue. Fortunately, there are many stock exchange photos sites that we can use to get copyright free images. But if you're not careful, using stock images can also get expensive especially if your blog generates little or no … [Read more...]