Stumbled across this infographic of the major data breaches of the last decade... Over the past decade, the size and complexity of attacks has been increasing, what I find of most concern in this diagram is not only the fact that many of them are described as 'unknown' which is a combination of companies not... Continue Reading →
After travelling to the US earlier this year, I once again experienced the ease and simplicity of Netflix, and pined for an equivalent back home in Australia. I've seen a number of articles around the place detailing steps to use Netflix out of the US, mostly involving VPNs that ultimately were paid subscriptions. Lifehacker put... Continue Reading →
Just backed a project on Kickstarter, a high power Arduino board with the lot! Wifi 99 IO Pins Mesh Networking Real Time Clock (RTC) USB Slave & USB Host Audio Output & More If you're keen check it out here.
I have started playing with individually programmable LED's in a strip, using an Arduino for programming. The chipset I went with was WS2801 from Alibaba. With a bit of magic, I wrote a simple C# program that would send images to the arduino over UDP, and the arduino would then display them on the screen.... Continue Reading →
As a gift to my brother for Christmas, I decided to make an Arduino clock, but hide it in a slab of timber. I routed the timber very thin on the front and placed an LED display behind it which shows through. A video in action. It also displays the temperature, the date, and... Continue Reading →
Every man should be in a Fantasy football league, and to make sure we had something good to play for, I assembled a cool plate! For every winner there is also a loser, and for them I made the Scrote: Made with a real Kangaroo scrotum...
When using IBM Security Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) for an LTPA junction, I ran into a NullpointerException. STSLTPATokenM 3 com.tivoli.am.fim.trustserver.sts.modules.STSLTPATokenModule consumeSTSUniversalUser Adding attribute to userMap: AZN_CRED_PRINCIPAL_UUID:[e57142ba-37c7-11e2-935f-c0a82f84aa77] STSLTPATokenM 3 com.tivoli.am.fim.trustserver.sts.modules.STSLTPATokenModule consumeSTSUniversalUser Adding attribute to userMap: AZN_CRED_VERSION:[0x00000611] STSLTPATokenM 3 com.tivoli.am.fim.trustserver.sts.modules.STSLTPATokenModule consumeSTSUniversalUser Adding attribute to userMap: AZN_CRED_AUTH_METHOD:[password] STSLTPATokenM 3 com.tivoli.am.fim.trustserver.sts.modules.STSLTPATokenModule consumeSTSUniversalUser... Continue Reading →
Integration Update 04/03/14: An alternative Forms SSO method has been documented here: https://philipnye.com/posts/oracle-ebs-r12-forms-sso-mk-ii/ Background I was asked to look at the configuration for Forms SSO into Oracle E-business suite. They had updated from version 11 to version 12 and it wasn't working with their old fsso.conf. After some analysis, it seemed that the javascript on... Continue Reading →
Using IBM Security Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) I ran into some errors following the guide in the WSSM Web services security installation guide for the echo service application. Whenever I started either the application or the client, I got an error similar to that below: [9/20/12 18:01:14:500 EST] 0000003b ConfigUtil E WSEC5007E: Class "com.tivoli.am.fim.wssm.tokenconsumers.WSSMTokenConsumer" not... Continue Reading →
I've been experiencing an issue where the PGP desktop SSO password does not update when I change my Windows password using Ctrl-Alt-Del. Spent some time just now troubleshooting, and I believe I've found the cause. If your C: is not listed as "Disk 0" in your Disk Management Interface: As mine isn't whenever I have... Continue Reading →
Trying to use the ITIM Middleware configuration tool with an already installed version of TDS, I kept getting the following error: CTGIMP555W A supported version of the product IBM Tivoli Directory Server, was not found on this machine. The minimum supported version is 6.1.0.0 or 6.2.0.1. The found version is unknown. Please refer to the... Continue Reading →
I've just completed phase 1 of the development of a website that was inspired by my girlfriend. She found that while studying she kept finding great sites to help her learn particular medical topics for her Medical Degree. But she had nowhere to put them that would benefit others. From there medreviewed was born! It's... Continue Reading →
When trying to use the Tivoli Security Policy Manager (TSPM) administration APIs under Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI), you need to make sure you've got the following JARs: Copy orb.properties from WAS runtime folder to ITDI JRE lib directory Copy com.ibm.ws.admin.client_7.0.0.jar and com.ibm.ws.webservices.thinclient_7.0.0.jar from WAS runtime folder to <TDI_HOME>jrelibext folder Copy com.ibm.tspm.datamodel_7.1.jar, com.ibm.tspm.mgmt.tasks.jar, com.ibm.tspm.resources_7.1.jar to <TDI_HOME.>jars3rd... Continue Reading →
An article has just been released on IBM developerworks on how to use the same sessions across two seperate domains when using Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (WebSEAL): The article is available here. (In the DeveloperWorks transition, it appears to have been lost, thankfully it's in the internet archive!) linked Here It builds on the... Continue Reading →
Philip Nye 