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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.
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Funny flash
From Userfriendly.org: Tesla Coil: Super Mario Theme With Lightning. Seriously cool! From good friend of mine: wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo. And from absoblogginlutely: Auditorium Now I should get back to work 🙂
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Watch out for long running tasks with Java Timer
The problem? Write a code which will execute every N seconds. The solution? Using a Timer with scheduleAtFixedRate. Now you got two problems :-), unless you’ve carefully read the documentation which states (emphasis added): If an execution is delayed for any reason (such as garbage collection or other background activity), two or more executions will…
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Preventing your site from becomming a spammer heaven
An other resource to help webmasters keep their new years resolution: Preventing Virtual Blight complete with video and slides 🙂
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Circumventing web filtering software
I was reading the Messing with Web Filtering Gateways post from GNU Citizen, and here are some comments / ideas: The problem is the impedance mismatch between the way the filtering software is parsing the headers and the way the webserver parses them. There will always be corner cases… For example, it would be interesting…
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grcsucks.com revival – #2
These posts republish content from the now defunct grcsucks.com site. The following one is a very good one, by somebody who knows networking: Martin Roesch, the author and lead developer of Snort. Dissecting GRC’s NanoProbes by martin.roesch http://www.snort.org Comments refer to : http://grc.com/np/np.htm Ok, so in the “broken out” packet dump at the bottom of…
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Hack the Gibson #169
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Steve Gibson says that MSRT runs when restarting the computer: … And then it runs the next time you restart your machine This is not true, not only because MS says so (The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and Windows Update runs…