Sindastra

About Sindastra

Sindastra is a software developer with over ten years of experience, specialized in backend web development. In her spare time she hacks on things and educates herself on a variety of topics. She likes to play Minecraft with friends and especially enjoys hacking on the game's server code.

Google’s Advanced Protection Program is a joke

Today, I wanted to sign in to one of my old Google accounts. And like all my Google accounts, this one also uses Google's Advanced Protection Program. If you don't know, Google's Advanced Protection Program is a thing you can enable for your Google account which enforces the use of [...]

By |2021-09-10T16:38:46+02:00September 10th, 2021|Sharing|3 Comments

GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Update V3.203 (Aug 3, 2021)

I just saw that the GL.iNet SLATE has a new update available, namely version 3.203... I previously had 3.201 installed, which you can read about here. The changelog in the device update panel for version 3.203 reads: OpenWrt Distribution: Based on OpenWrt 19.07.7 (AR150,MIFI,AR300M,USB150,N300,AR750,AR750S,X750,E750,X1200,XE300,MT300N-V2,MT1300,MV1000) Based on QSDK11 (B1300,S1300,AP1300) Security: 1. [...]

By |2021-09-10T14:33:24+02:00September 10th, 2021|Update|0 Comments

Git SSH with YubiKey on Windows

Assuming you set up PGP (GPG) on your YubiKey, all you need to do is: Install Gpg4win from here.Install PuTTY from here.Tell git to use it (CMD): git config --global core.sshcommand "plink -agent" 4. Edit or create %appdata%\gnupg\gpg-agent.conf with the following contents: enable-putty-support enable-ssh-support use-standard-socket default-cache-ttl 600 max-cache-ttl 7200 5. [...]

By |2021-09-09T08:44:29+02:00September 9th, 2021|Guide, Tech Support|0 Comments

ProtonMail dots, hyphens and underscores

I just found an undocumented feature in ProtonMail... which I thought you might find useful to know. Backstory I use ProtonMail as my primary email hosting provider nowadays, as it gives me convenient PGP encryption across my devices, and all incoming emails that are not already PGP encrypted will be [...]

By |2021-08-07T06:58:13+02:00August 6th, 2021|Sharing|3 Comments

Windows CVE-2021-34527 Workaround

A serious security hole that is actively being exploited puts your Windows machines at risk. A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. An attacker could then [...]

By |2021-07-03T16:49:34+02:00July 3rd, 2021|Guide, News, Tech Support|0 Comments
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