Tag: secuirty

Listing SSL cipher/protocols on remote host

May 12, 2014

To get a list of ciphers use nmap: nmap –script ssl-cert,ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 www.example.com Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-05-12 12:11 CDT Nmap scan report for www.example.com (10.10.10.10) Host is up (0.021s latency).%MCEPASTEBIN% PORT STATE SERVICE 443/tcp open…

Java and DNS lookups

November 26, 2013

Java by default caches successful DNS lookup forever. Turning changing this will have performance impact befauce of DNS lookups and there are security concerns. If you are using load balancing that relies on DNS this will need to be changed.…