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Author: gpanther

  • The perfect solution?

    I’ve been experimenting with different collaboration solutions, and I think I may just have found the one: Socialtext. What I really like: It is open source (just click the for developers link) It is free (if you don’t want the support) It is written in Perl It has an API for manipulating the pages (I…

  • Two contest you might enjoy

    Two contests you might consider checking out if you are a security person: The Hitchhackers Guide to the Galaxy – HTML / scripting oriented The malware analisys quiz 7 from SANS – a challenge oriented more at disassembly, and be aware! this is a real malware sample! Good luck

  • Tracking web users

    Again, this will be something new here (at least for me): I’ll publish a pre-rant for Security Now! Steve Gibson expressed interest in the subject of cookies, so I’ll tackle that in this post and also the more general question of user-tracking. I discuss different ways it can be accomplished, ways you could protect yourself…

  • Stars of the earth

    Hello all (of my 2 readers, one of which is my girlfriend 🙂 )! This is my 50th post, so I thought that I do something special with it. The blog has grown steadily until now and I have many more subjects that would like to write about. The picture below stands as a small…

  • Talking out of your head (as opposed to an other body part)

    Recently a hoax / misinformation / hype is making its way around the web (or at least the part of the web I see ;)). I’m talking about the article title Internet Explorer 7 – Still Spyware Writers Heaven. While I’m by no means a MS fan and criticized the IE7 team for not making…

  • Creating random passwords – the easy way

    Passwords are used as the main authentication method in almost all of the current websites. They are easy to implement (from the websites owner point of view), however the user must consider several conflicting goals if s/he wants to stay safe: Passwords should be long The user must be able to remember the password It…

  • Updating Ubuntu to Edgy Eft

    Finally I’ve gotten around to updating to Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10). My first remarks were: The download is quite heavy (677 MB) so it took several hours on my 256 Mbit connection. If you have a good connection at work for example, you should download the ISO, write it to a CD and add the…

  • The IE7 team replies – sort of

    As you might remember Martin McKey very generously offered his readers the chance to post questions which he will ask at the IE7 release party. Well, he went he asked and as I’ve predicted he got a canned response. I felt that this was partially he didn’t insist on it – and I can’t blame…

  • Hack the Gibson – Episode #62 – sort of

    How to have your cake and eat it too? Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I’m just swamped at work and I also have to buy books from time to time. However I can say that I have several javascript and perl goodies prepared and soon I’ll post them The recent show was…

  • What to do if you have many TIME_WAIT connections owned by the system process?

    If you have a Windows machine which acts as a server and it have many connections per seconds, you can get in the situation when you have a lot of half-open connections owned by the system (PID 0) process. To resolve this if the communication hosts have high speed connections with one another (like a…