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The leaked Microsoft COFEE product
So, the Microsoft COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) tool was leaked. I took a quick look at it, and – as expected – there is nothing “magical”, “secret” or “backdoorish” about it (even though I love the picture which comes with the Gizmodo article, the text itself is complete and utter BS – COFEE…
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What VirusTotal is not
Since its inception VirusTotal has been used by people to compare different AV products (just in case you don’t know: VirusTotal is great free service which scans the uploaded file with 40 AV engines currently and reports back the results). The AV industry has objected to this practice because of a couple of reasons, some…
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Grooveshark VIP member
I’ve written about Grooveshark in the past, however I want to mention them again for a couple of reasons: First of all, they introduced a new user interface, which works great. More than that, you can now seek in the songs! This means that Grooveshark directly addresses three out of the five methods of music…
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How to generate a stackdump with GDB
I’m not a big GDB guy, but Google always helps: Create a textfile with the following content: set height 0 thread apply all bt detach quit Run the following command: gdb $EXE -pid $PID -command $TEXTFILE > $OUTPUTFILE where: $EXE is the path to the executable $PID is the PID it is running under $TEXTFILE…
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The importance of false positives
An interesting paper was bought to my attention recently by this blog post: The Base Rate Fallacy and its implications for the difficulty of Intrusion Detection. The central question of this paper is: if we have a flow of N packets per day and our network IDS has a false-positive rate of X, what is…
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Fun videos
Got the links from a friend:
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Why network neutrality is a big deal
Reposted from the packetlife blog. We already pay for the bandwidth. The content providers already pay for the bandwidth. Anyone claiming anything different is either very misinformed or is straight out lying!
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Bohemian Bankruptcy
Via Naked Capitalism
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RequestPolicy Firefox Plugin – the ultimate NoScript
I recently found out about the following Firefox plugin/addon: RequestPolicy (via this blogpost) – see also the Firefox addon page. Its function is to whitelist all kinds of cross-domain requests, including scripts, style-sheets, images, objects (Flash, Java, Silverlight), etc. Anything in a webpage hosted on the domain A can reference other content from domain A,…
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help build the mozilla developer network
After asking you if you use Perl, now I’m asking you to help build the Mozilla Developer Network (MDC). They are running a survey to get to know their audience better. Please take it if you use the MDC and have a couple of minutes of free time. PS. You can read some preliminary results…