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Circumventing the need for transactions in MySQL
While reading the excellent series on "Web 2.0" and databases on the O’Reilly radar blog it occurred to me that there is a nice trick with MySQL for making it semi-transactional (as a side-note: these days I have work with MySQL less and less and am fully enjoying the goodness that is PostgreSQL and pgAdmin).…
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How efficient are non-standard configurations in combating the malware problem?
Very. Thank you for reading this article, hope to see you soon. Just kidding :-), you won’t get off this easy. You’ll have to read my ramblings about the topic. It isn’t a new idea to model the malware problem using methods borrowed from the field of the biology, more specifically the study of diseases…
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“Remote” turn-off switch
And now for something completely different: a hardware hack. Warning! Don’t attempt this at home unless you have at least some experience with electricity! Also, applying this hack directly on consumer electronics will most probably void the warranty! The problem: having a 2.1 (yes, I know, lame, real people use at least 5.1 :-)) speaker…
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Consider the source before ranting
or else you could look foolish. Full disclosure: I work in the AV industry, however this post (and all of my posts, unless stated otherwise) do not necessarily reflect the opinion of my current or past employers. They are my own personal opinions / views of things. Getting back to the topic: some time ago…
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Enabling Bluetooth on Ubuntu
is as simple as 1, 2, 3 (although it ought to be as simple as 0 – it should work out of the box – more on this later). So I was trying to copy some photos from a phone to an Ubuntu machine which, although it had recognized the phone, kept coming up with…
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A new competition
Via terminal23.net: the Python challenge (this does not have any deadlines, nor does it carry prizes, so you can relax).
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Hostile JS Debug
I was looking through a presentation delivered by a McAfee employee during an Indian security conference (Club Hack 2007) and there it was: a reference to a little project of mine dedicated to ease the debugging of obfuscated javascript. Neat. (Or, I could use the the word of the year and say: w00t 🙂
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2008 Scripting games
Via the terminal23 blog: the Microsoft 2008 Winter Scripting Games. Also with Perl for extra fun 🙂
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Sunbelt is using Symantec in-house
This is quite old (it has been sitting in my to-do list for a while) but still fun: What can screenshots reveal about your company? This blog posting from the Sunbelt blog from Friday, November 16, 2007 entitled Some new twists in the Storm worm contains the screenshot which can be seen below with the…
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VNC – (almost) zero security
I mentioned it previously, but just wanted to be sure that everyone has seen this: the "standard" VNC protocol does not offer any encryption of the data (ie. using a packet capture you can reconstruct the screen content and the action of the user). There are unofficial extensions, but they are not widely supported During…