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Bulletproof hosting
Google not being evil 🙂
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Spam from the F-Secure forums
It is no secret that I have less than stellar opinion about F-Secure (the short version is: in my opinion they are a reseller of the Kaspersky engine, but usually manage to get lower detection rates in tests and they like to talk about their research, even though all the hard work is done by…
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Improvement to Software Restriction Policies in Windows 7
While listening to the episode of RunAs Radio about Windows 7 I’ve heard about AppLocker, a beefed up version of Software Restriction Policies. It is an interesting improvement, but I expect that it will still be enforced from User Mode, making it not as secure as it could be. Also, given the recent mishaps with…
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Mixed links
GCC has built-in primitives to walk the stack. Neato! (of course if you foobard your stack…) ParetoLogic is blogging. Just don’t forget where they come from. Via the All about Linux blog: Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins.
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Possible PE file trick
I was reading this: pefile and LOAD_CONFIG and took a look at the structure: IMAGE_LOAD_CONFIG_DIRECTORY Structure. Some things which I found interesting: GlobalFlagsClear – The global flags that control system behavior. For more information, see Gflags.exe. GlobalFlagsSet – The global flags that control system behavior. For more information, see Gflags.exe. LockPrefixTable – The VA of…
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Ethical hacker challenge solution posted
To the Santa Claus is Hacking in Town challenge. You can find it here: Santa Claus is Hacking to Town – Answers and Winners. Unfortunately my answer wasn’t accepted 100% because of a small misunderstanding, but it got cleared up and all is good now :-). The RaDaJo blog also posted a detailed solution (warning!…
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Mixed links
From the Security4All blog: Preventing Brute Force attacks with IPTABLES (Rate Limiting) – iptables is an incredibly versatile tool! Via the nezumi-lab blog: patch-diff – a free (as in beer) alternative for BinDiff. Something like Google Streetview, but not quite for Romania: NORC (they are using Google Maps underneath, but it seems that the photos…
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This made my day!
I was wondering about the opening music for the Pauldotcom podcast and I couldn’t manage to find it. However, Paul was kind enough to write back to me and say that it is from a group called Burnshee Thornside. I went to their site and discovered not only the theme song (“Wish I Could Write…
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SSLFail
Tyler and Marcin started the site SSLFail.com, which inspired me to do some digging of my own. The results are shocking! A few words about the methodology: I took the top 1 000 000 sites list from Alexa (love them or hate them for their toolbars, but it is very nice of them to provide…
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An interesting video
Ok, I really should stop dicking around and start working :-), but this is very interesting (and not just because I’m a fan of Fatboy Slim). In parts it is sentimental, in parts it is overstated, but an interesting watch nonetheless. Did You Know? from Amybeth on Vimeo.