Challenge yourself to 'Inbox Zero'

Organize your mailbox

Do you also recognize a overloading email inbox, to much unreaded emails and no time to clean up, ‘Inbox Zero’ may be the solution for your problem!

Yesterday i was reading a blog (sorry, it’s in Dutch) from Michel Bouman from Microsoft. Last year he wrote a blog about how he implemented ‘Inbox Zero’ method by Merlin Mann in his life. In short terms, you have 4 folders(categories):

• Action
• Archive
• Sometime
• Waiting For

Every email you receive you will validate agains the rules below:

How to block Facebook from your PC

Facebook wants to sell every Ad and you on the Web. The social network will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites.

Companies like Facebook and Google offer you their services for free, but free always has a cost. Advertising pays the bills and the contributors, and these big companies separate themselves from serving up ads that are better targeted than other smaller networks. By tracking you across the web and building a profile (Big Data) that helps which ads you’re going to click most likely.

Block the Blue Coat Intermediate CA from Windows

Symantec has gotten in hot water for issuing rogue certificates (source). While Symantec has agreed to certificate transparency, Blue Coat systems is a known operator of MITM services they sell to enterprises, nation-states and governments, and this certificate would allow Blue Coat to issue arbitrary MITM certificates.

OSX instruction can be find over here (By Filippo Valsorda)

Block the Intermediate CA on your windows computer

1. Download the certificate to your computer or just click “Open”. (for Firefox users read below)

Privacy and Anonymity

Privacy

Privacy is an increasingly rare commodity these days. To find out what kind of information is there about you do a search for yourself on Pipl.com, you might be surprised at the number of companies that claim to have information about you and your relatives.

That’s because your personal information, including your email address, phone number and daily activities on Social Networks and apps, are worth a lot of money to legitimate businesses, your new employer, government and bad guys (read hackers).

Yealink Skype for Business Firmware

Yealink is continuing its legacy of innovation with the delivery of an end-to-end unified communications (UC) solution for Microsoft environments. The UC Edition of its IP phones is customizable and seamlessly integrates with user workflows. UC Edition phones, crafted with new features tailored for Skype for Business/Lync, extend the communication experience and facilitate better collaboration.

Yealink has certified the following models for a direct connection with Skype For Business:

• T40P
• T41P
• T42G
• T46G
• T48G

Download Yealink Firmware

Since the site isn’t very handy with finding tools and firmware, i will list the latest firmware version below. You can download then from my stack account:

Force HTTPS On Your WordPress Site

I’m running my wordpress site for quite some time now.. My site is HTTPS enabled and signed with a certificate. HTTP was also possible in the past for reaching my site. In this guide i’m going to point all of the pages (including the administrative) to force HTTPS.

To simplify this, the guide will build into the following 3 parts:

  1. Force SSL for administrator pages (including the login page)
  2. Secure all normal pages with HTTPS
  3. Change .htaccess to redirect all HTTP to HTTPS

When all of this is completed you should have a WordPress site completely running secure with HTTPS.

OpenVPN in Kali Linux

This how to describes how to configure Kali to use a openVPN for securing your traffic.

Why should u use VPN?

Here’s my top 5 why you want to use a VPN service.

  1. VPN provides Privacy and hides your own External IP address.
  2. Use any network (public or private or free (hotspot WiFi) with encryption.
  3. Login to your home or Work network from anywhere with confidence of encrypted traffic.
  4. Bypass censorship and content monitoring  by goverments.
  5. Browse and bypass Firewall and censorship policy from Anywhere!

As you can see from the list above, VPN not necessarily hides everything. Search engines  like google, bing and yahoo can still recognizes you based on your cookies or account sign-in. So make sure you use tools like Bleachbit (clear browsing data etc) and enable plugins in your browser for tracking and ads (privacy badger, uBlock Origin or Privacy.net analyzer).