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The limits of mob-style takedowns
It is interesting to observe the dynamics of the interactions on the Internet. In the last couple of years several hosting (RBN, McColo and so on) organizations have been taken down by “denouncing them to the masses”. The usual flow of events was: Evidence was gathered against them The media “exposed” them Their upstream providers…
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Mixed links
New blog in town: Telic Thoughts about information security – I especially liked their Is the CIA model still relevant? post. The CIA triad is a concept which I often reference and it is interesting to see how its limits are being pushed. Windows Server 2003 SP1 Out of Support in April – the Microsoft…
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EthicalHacker.net compromised
Today I was greeted by the following e-mail in my inbox: EH-Net Compromise Disclosure EH-Net was compromised a few months back, and we are asking all members to immediately change their passwords. Although we do not hold any sensitive data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, date of birth, etc., we still realize…
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A new security Linux distro announced: SUMO Linux Notes on hardening Apache – some of them is not applicable if you are installing Apache from packages. I liked the idea mailing the admin whenever the server is (re)started. IWF causing problems for archive.org – interesting. While it wasn’t intentional, it was more an interoperability issue,…
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PostgreSQL data corruption issues
Lately I’ve been helping out a friend with PG data corruption issues. Usually PG is pretty good about data consistency, but it too can fail under extreme conditions (multiple power failures, fsync=off in the name of speed, no battery-backed RAID controller). The interesting thing I didn’t realize, is that your transaction log can get corrupted!…
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Quick tips for installing PHP + IIS7 under Windows 7
If you are trying to install PHP under the default configuration of IIS7 with Windows 7 (and presumably Vista & Server 2008, but I observed it under Win7), you might run into problems (for example getting “Service Unavailable” errors). Here is how I managed to fix them: First, make sure that you’ve installed all the…
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Multiple websites on Windows XP – links to IISAdmin. It doesn’t seem to work 100%, so caveat emptor. From the as days pass by blog: Opera Web Standards Curriculum. A nice addition to the Sitepoint references. Google apologizes for the Japan fiasco – in big company it is hard to enforce standards across the board,…