This morning I got a phone call from a phone number in Isreal. It was Tal, an engineer from Plimus. Tal wanted to know about the issues I had found and what solutions I had in mind. Tal also explained their plans for fixing all issues and all the issues that are involved with changing their API. …

It’s been a while since my last post about Plimus. I have contacted Plimus multiple times since and still haven’t got any response from someone with even a basic knowledge of security. They did however visit my blog and that gave me enough information to figure out that their customer …

In my last blogpost about Plimus I talked about the lack of SSL based security. At some point in time Plimus must have realized this and started looking for a solution. Of course, Plimus is a serious business and can’t afford to break backwards compatibility for their customers and so devised …

Plimus Inc. is a company that handles online payments for websites. The websites don’t have to deal with all kinds of credit card companies and banks. Just create a account at Plimus and let them handle all your payments. This means Plimus has access to sensitive customer information and they …

After a few weeks of frustrating email exchange with the Plimus security people I have decided to write this blogpost to warn existing and potential customers of Plimus. The apparent lack of technical knowledge on the side of Plimus and my previous experience in their response to bug reports has …

Online privacy is a hot issue. In this short tutorial I will show how to use adsuck to block loads of online tracking sites.

First install adsuck

$ sudo pkg_add adsuck

Now it’s time to configure adsuck. Adsuck needs to know about a dns server. I have put down two (one as backup):

$ cat …

Installing and running Gnome on OpenBSD is easy, but poorly documented. This guide is written for a CURRENT installation just after 4.9 release, but should work on most versions in the past or the near future.

The first step is installing Gnome with all it’s dependencies:

$ sudo pkg_add …