Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Disable SSL2 Ciphers on IIS 7 in Windows 2008

IIS 7, for some reason, has SSL V 2.0 Ciphers enabled by default. These must be turned off if PCI compliancy is desired. Follow these steps to turn off this cipher

  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key/folder:

    HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\SSL 2.0

  3. Right-click on the SSL 2.0 folder and select New and then click Key. Name the new folder Server.
  4. Inside the Server folder, click the Edit menu, select New, and click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  5. Enter Enabled as the name and hit Enter.
  6. Ensure that it shows 0×00000000 (0) under the Data column (it should by default). If it doesn’t, right-click and select Modify and enter 0 as the Value data.
  7. Restart the computer.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ubuntu 9.1 64bit: Youtube display's video, but won't actually play

Ran into an issue the other day with Ubuntu 9.1 64bit. On Youtube, the video's you display the image, but when clicking on the video, it would not play. Here's how I fixed this...
1. Uninstalled the flash player via Synaptec
2. Ran:
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove
3. Next ran wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz. THis downloaded the latest flash player to my current directory (in my case ~/Downloads)
4. extracted the contents to this folder.
5. Next I ran: sudo cp ./libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
6. Restarted Firefox and went to Youtube. When it asked to install missing plugins, I told it to ignore. Video's played promptly...

Tuesday, April 6, 2010