Security

A Quick Guide through UFW – Uncomplicated Firewall

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Reading Time: 4 minutes UFW, short for Uncomplicated Firewall, is basically a simplified firewall mechanism that is implemented upon iptables itself. As a result, making it much easier to configure ufw than to configure iptables. Therefore, it can be said that ufw is technically a program for managing a netfilter firewall which aims to provide an easy to use interface for the user. Need for UFW – uncomplicated firewall Continue Reading

Security In DC/OS

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Every company’s most valuable asset is its data. However, that data is also constantly under threat from bad actors around the world. To retain the trust of their customers, partners, and shareholders, every business needs to protect their data and applications. DC/OS Enterprise offers a range of features that allows you to secure your cluster and prevent breaches and other attacks. So, let’s see the Continue Reading

Wapiti, The web-application vulnerability scanner

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Alright, Today I have come up with an interesting topic which is Wapiti. It is nothing but a tool, we will talk more about Wapiti in a while but let’s first talk ‘Why wapiti’. So, next when you are done with your application from development to testing make sure you have tested it against attacks and vulnerabilities out there on the internet. You can protect Continue Reading

SQL made easy and secure with Slick

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Slick stands for Scala Language-Integrated Connection Kit. It is Functional Relational Mapping (FRM) library for Scala that makes it easy to work with relational databases. Slick can be considered as a replacement of writing SQL queries as Strings with a nicer API for handling connections, fetching results and using a query language, which is integrated more nicely into Scala. You can write your database queries Continue Reading

JWT Authentication with Play Framework

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, I will demonstrate how to implement JWT Authentication with Play Framework. JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, self-contained which means securely transfer the information between two parties. It can be sent via Post request or inside the HTTP header. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed. JWTs can be signed using a secret or a public/private key Continue Reading

Create a self-signed SSL Certificate using OpenSSL.

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog I’ll be giving a little bit of insight on SSL certificates and then how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL. Let’s start with  “What is an SSL Certificate?“ SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. SSL is a global standard technology that creates encrypted communication between web browser and web server. It helps to decrease the risk of losing your personal information(e.g passwords, emails, Continue Reading

Scala-IOT: Getting started with RaspberryPi without Monitor or Screen.

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey folks, We are back again ! ( Did you miss me? ) A big Moriarty Fan ! 🙂 So where we left was, now we have a basic understanding of IOT i.e. Internet of things and we know which protocol it uses i.e. MQTT and why it uses it ? If you didn’t follow us till here you can check out our previous blogs Continue Reading

Vulnerability scanning with metasploit

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Hola!! As you all aware of that vulnerabilities can cost you much more and as a developer you don’t need your website to have vulnerabilities (at least I am 😛 ). And for testing for loopholes in your application can be painful, So here I am to show you a quick demo on how to test your web application for these vulnerabilities. So we will use a known Continue Reading

Play framework security with Silhouette

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Silhouette is a security library for Play framework. Its basically a core only fork of Secure Social, which is another security library for play framework. Secure Social is a great framework for lots of user but my experience with secure social is not that good, nor with some of my friends and colleagues who use Play framework in their application. It’s been thrown out from Continue Reading

Configure SSL on jetty server to run it with https

Agile, Cloud, Scala, Web,

Reading Time: 2 minutes We can run our application with http as well as with https. We use https for secure communication over the computer network. Technically, https is not a protocol in and of itself; rather, it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on top of the SSL/TLS protocol, thus adding the security capabilities of SSL/TLS to standard HTTP communications. In this blog, Continue Reading

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