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Repetitive testcases with jUnit
Update: after listening to a recent episode of Java Posse, I found out about parameterized tests for JUnit which seems to be a better option than the method described below. Live and learn. Let’s say you have a lot of similar cases in a jUnit test. You might be tempted to write a loop to…
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Mixed links
This will be a long one since I didn’t do it for a while: Norton support goes rogue? – One remark: it is not that uncommon for support to recommend third-party tools (one very popular example would be HijackThis). Why reinvent the wheel? Of course, it is wrong to misrepresent the product. Ways the PDF…
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Winter landscape
The winter is almost gone, so here is an image to commemorate its passing.
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Twitter Content
And here is an other pipe: did you find it annoying that when you subscribe to the RSS feed for a Twitter account (not being a Twitter head myself – probably because I don’t have time to write short posts
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DeShortify
Update: I created a simpler version of this pipe using the API from LongURL. A positive side-effect of using the service is that it supports many more URL shortening services. Some people feel that URL shortening services like TinyURL are a security risk because they take away the user’s ability to hover over a link…
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Enabling / disabling the SD card reader on laptops
Just a quick note: it seems that on some laptops (the Dell Inspiron 9200 for example) the SD card reader is enabled / disabled together with the Firewire port. I found this it because I always disable firewire ports on laptop, given that it can be used to dump the contents of the memory and…
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A new Perl twitter account
Now, besides the perl one-liner account we have CPANr: Reviewing CPAN modules 140 chars at a time Very cool! The latest (as of this posting) is Net::Pcap, a module to slicing and dicing packet capture files, something which I’m sure will come in handy someday. Image taken from ivanlanin’s photostream with permission.
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Webhoneypot
In the last couple of months I’ve been helping out with the webhoneypot project. From the Google code website: DShield.org is offering this honeypot for users to capture automated web application exploits. It is a very simple "semi interactive" honeypot implemented in PHP. The core idea is the following: you install it on a webserver…
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Malicious sites by country
In an earlier post I’ve said that the number of malicious sites in a country has a close relation to the level of connectivity in the given country. Here is a chart to show this visually: (The data collection method is the same as for the other data: malicious domains from DNS-BH and clean domains…
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FRHACK creates sexist award
The organizers of FRHACK, a french security conference in the making, came up with the idea of the “The Best IT Security Girl of the Year”. If you think I’m being over-sensitive, just look at the picture below and judge for yourself if it is a proper way to encourage women to participate in the…