Author: gpanther

  • Are our leaders becoming dumber?

    Usually I stay away from politics, but I’ll make an exception from time to time. After listening to a speech of former US president Bill Clinton I have to wonder how people could choose a man who can’t put talk for 10 minutes in front of a crowd without making some pronunciation or grammatical error…

  • Don’t reinvent the wheel

    From the department of don’t make your own program unless you know what your are doing come the following two: The Websense security blog RSS feed keeps marking the first post as new. While it is a very interesting post (about analyzing shellcodes form browser based exploits), I don’t want to read it five times.…

  • Cookies and FUD

    Thanks to Security Garden I found this very useful article about Anti-Spyware products and Cookies. It is a useful and unbiased study IMHO. It also points out some misinformation spread by quite respectable organizations on the Internet. Webroot says (the incorrect information is highlighted in red): Adware tracking cookies trigger the most benign form of…

  • An other nice looking utility

    Here is an other utility that looks great: HT Editor. Editor / Hex Editor / Disassembler / Assembler. I’ll take it for a spin and get back to you with the results.

  • A nice little utility

    A nice little utility to view your logs in real time, if you are on windows and didn’t install GnuWin32 or Cygwin: BareTail.

  • Microsoft, pantents and rant

    One of the blogs I monitor Security Garden. It is a nice blog, which although it doesn’t contain any original content, is a nice gathering place of interesting and useful pieces of information from around the Internet. However I must take issue with two recent posts. What irks me is that these people who steal…

  • You can do anything with Perl – part 2

    You can do anything with Perl – part 2 I’m a PHP person myself and only the last several months did I start to play with Perl on a more serious level. One thing I’ve learned pretty fast: you can (almost) anything with Perl and the first thing you should do when you try to…

  • To pack or not to pack?

    After listening to an other great CyberSpeak podcast, I decided to line up the pros and cons of executable packing for programmers. First of all, what is executable packing? In short it is similar to self-extracting archives, where as a result of the process an executable is generated which contains some unpacking code and the…

  • Hack The Gibson – Episode #66

    Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. This again will be a short one. Steve talks about Vista which I have no immediate experience with (I’ve seen it on some decent machines and all that I can say is that it’s reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow. really, really, really slow. Event without the Aero interface).…

  • Tracking Users Via the Browser Cache

    From the department of old things I didn’t know about comes the following bit: Tracking Users Via the Browser Cache. Original story: meantime: non-consensual http user tracking using caches. Also covered here: Clearing cookies is not enough to save your privacy. And it was already posted on slashdot (so please don’t post it again :)).…