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Calls to action
With the motto “better late than never” here are some calls to action: Vote for your favorite podcast on the Podcast Awards website. Votes are open until November the 30th and you can vote once per day (after you vote, you can an email with a link, which you must click on to validate your…
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Surprising numbers
I was reading the latest FudSec piece (Generating a False Sense of Insecurity) where I found the following statement (emphasis added): Facebook now has 300 million users. Let’s assume that each user has at least one piece of user-generated content on their Facebook page cause, well, it’s a very user-content driven site. That means that…
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Web Hosting Site Review Review :-p
WebHostingChoice pretends to be a hosting review site (it contains categories like “best uk web hosting”), however it only seems to be a placeholder for a couple of affiliate links to a limited number of hosts. Their WOT (web of trusts) rating isn’t so great either. While WOT has its limits (mainly because of its…
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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!