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Detecting malicious hosts with p0f
Lately I’ve posting a little malicious hosts, and here is the latest installment of the series: The basic idea is: infected computers (“bots” or “zombies”) can be be used to perform network actions on behalf of their “masters”. Some of these actions are usually done by “server class” machines. Two examples for such actions are: sending…
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Updated VTUploader – renamed to OVScan
I updated the the script I originally published for submitting files to VirusTotal and renamed it OVScan (Online Virus Scan). What has changed: Added support for multiple sites Added support for submitting via SSL (if the site supports it) Added support for a per-file timeout Get it while it’s fresh from the source-code repository (to…
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Blogger tag plugin
I wanted to install the the Cumulus plugin for Blogger, however I realized that I have too many tags :-), so here is a static snapshot instead. Blogumulus by Roy Tanck and Amanda Fazani Update: reduced the number of tags to avoid hogging the CPU. Update: the server hosting the javascript / flash files went…
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Something fun for Friday the 13th
From Jonathan Coulton’s blog (you know, the Codemonkey guy): Kutiman, an Israeli musician, has put together an astonishing funk piece by sampling pieces of YouTube videos. You can see the first video below, for more visit thru-you.com (also, the site is a visual experience in itself, definitely worth visiting). An other interesting fan-made music video…
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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 😛 – I subscribe to the RSS feed rather than “follow” them) that they put…
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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…