TLS certificates are so ubiquitous that you now very often need them even during the development phase. Developers are thus used to create “self-signed” certificates and configure their client requiring TLS support to accept self-signed certificates. This can be fine for development: As both the client and the server are on the same computer, the… Continue reading Using a local development trusted CA on MacOS
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ejabberd 17.07 bugfix release
ejabberd 17.07 includes an important security fix. Except this fix, the release is completely equivalent to 17.06. If you run any version from 17.03 to 17.06, it’s possible to consume all available ports regardless of ERL_MAX_PORTS. You should upgrade to 17.07 as soon as possible if you are running a public server. Please, note that… Continue reading ejabberd 17.07 bugfix release
Securing ejabberd with TLS encryption
In recent years security and privacy become central focus of users and system administrators. Here is brief guide on setting up secure ejabberd TLS connections and keeping them private.
Securing ejabberd against logjam attacks … and future threats
As a default, ejabberd is secured and resistant to logjam attacks. However, ejabberd 15.06 adds improvements that makes ejabberd even more resistant to future attacks. We hope you will find valuable information there, even from a general XMPP security standpoint.
Releasing Enhanced Security Debian AMI
We have decided to share with AWS community our basic linux platform. It is based on Debian and includes some security enhancements, that comes from integrating grsecurity into kernel. Previously i have released only kernel builds known as ESK kernel, now we are presenting whole Debian that includes following changes: ESK kernel 3.2.58 gradm 3.0… Continue reading Releasing Enhanced Security Debian AMI