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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.…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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 :)).…
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All natural numbers are special
From the department of too-geeky-joke-to-be-funny comes the following one: All natural numbers are special: 0 is special because it is the first natural number 1 is special because it is the neutral element for multiplication 2 is special because it is the first even number 3 is special because it is the first odd prime…