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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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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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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…