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Rookits? Who needs rootkits?
What are rootkits and why are they dangerous? You can read the detailed explanation at Wikipedia which I won’t reproduce, but the basic idea is that they alter the operating system (using either documented or undocumented methods) so that certain objects (processes, directories, files) become invisible. They are very dangerous because they breed new life…
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Bye-bye DHTML Editing
While browsing on the MSDN website, the following article caught my eye: Replacing the DHTML Editing Control in Windows Vista and Beyond. It seems that starting with Windows Vista the fast and dirty way to add WYSIWYG editing to your web pages with IE won’t be available any more because the needed ActiveX component won’t…
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WAP
Yesterday I’ve participated in the local Windows Academic Program pitch. The main content was delivered by Adrian Marinescu. I can sum it up as a short version of the book Windows Internals. For the one of us who actually have read the book it was a little boring (although in the breaks I’ve managed to…
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Apache and mod_proxy
We’ve been having problems with Apache and mod_proxy at the workplace for a couple of days. The scenario was the following: there is server A which listens on HTTPS (with Apache) and server B which uses mod_proxy to serve the contents for A in a subdirectory. B runs CentOS with Apache 2.0.52. The issue was…
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Password security on popular sites
We use (and sometimes reuse, although we shouldn’t) passwords on the web every day. There has been so much talk about password security lately that the least we should expect is that the big sites have proper passwords policies. I will single out two of them here: digg.com – I’ve tried to register with them…