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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…
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Mixed links
From splibrain.org: Graph Gear, a very nice flash based open source (!) graphing solution. Very nice if you want to display graphs online. Interesting to know: why is Italy excluded from all online contests? From devnet’s bookmarks: SS64 – command references for Windows, Linux (bash), Powershell and Oracle. This site is a good resource which…
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Two new podcasts
Just wanted to announce two new podcasts I’ve started listening to, and maybe they would be of interest to people interested in security: The IT Security Pubcast – a South African podcast with security professionals who have real, hands-on experience with the physical aspects of security. Being a more electronic-only guy, this is a very…
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On the topic of contests…
The latest packetlife challenge is over and here is the solution. Very cool. And here is a challenge I almost forgot about (since this too is very network oriented and I currently don’t have the time to dig up all the information needed): NMAP Trivia: Mastering Network Mapping and Scanning. If you want to take…
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Two more involved contests
The first is the First Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest (via nconway’s blog). You need to create data structures to index a generated data stream (in fact streams, because multiple streams are presented to you in parallel) and perform operations on them (insert, update, query). The second one is the Cisco Developer Contest (link from Ubergeek.ro).…
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grcsucks.com revival – #1
After starting a one-man movement 🙂 to clarify the muddy waters created by Steve Gibson, I was relieved to find that I’m not alone in my opinion. The central site gathering all the information was grcsucks.com, the domain registration of which expired somewhere around June 2007, and since than you can only find a domain…