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The state of desktop security
I downloaded the Secunia PSI on one of the Windows computers I maintain, thinking “surely, I’m pretty good about updating stuff, it won’t find big things”. Well, I was sadly mistaken. The top culprits are: Java for not uninstalling older releases when never ones get installed Non functioning auto-update features. Two examples would be Java…
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Lightning openSUSE review
Recently I had the opportunity to install Linux on a laptop, and I thought that I should widen my experiences, so I choose openSUSE 11.0. Unfortunately I wasn’t very successful, so most probably I will end up going with an other OS (I’m still undecided between Fedora 10, or maybe I should just lick my…
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What to do if your touchpad (trackpad) stops working under openSuse?
Symptoms: your touchpad works on the login screen, however once you’ve logged it, you can’t move the mouse cursor. I experienced it under openSuse, however it may alos come up under other Linux versions using Gnome. The problem: the maximum/minimum speed got reset to 0. The solution (this is openSuse specific): Start the control center…
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Mixed links
Open cooperation at its best. Remember: if you use open source software, try giving feedback when possible. Monitor testing software: For Windows: Nokia Monitor Test – old, and geared towards CRTs, but can still be used for TFTs From Extra Pepperoni: ScreenQuery for the Mac For Linux: lcdtest A rant about penetration testing. I agree,…
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New ethical hacker challenge
Santa Claus is Hacking in Town. Enjoy.
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Distinct product lines, how I love the
Citing from Wikipedia: The following modern Intel processors include support for VT-x: Pentium 4 662 and 672 Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 965 (not Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with HT) Pentium D 920-960 except 945, 925, 915 Core Solo U1000 series (not T1000 series) Core Duo T2300, T2400, T2500, T2600, T2700 only, plus L2000 and…
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Security is a process
Security is like art: it’s never done, just abandoned :-). So here are 3 free tools which you might want to regularily run in your environment to check for well known problems: MSAT – Microsoft Security Assesment Tool MBSA – Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Secunia PSI – Personal Software Inspector
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Creating your own top commenters widget for blogger
Some time ago I added a top commenter widget to the blog, based on a tip from Blogger Buster. However it started acting up, so I decided to roll my own using Yahoo Pipes!. Below you will find a short tutorial on how to do it, as well as the ready-made pipe, based on the…
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Restarting scripts in Opera after you stopped them
Opera has a nice feature, whereby each message box created from a Javascript offers you an option to stop running scripts for the given page. This is very nice if you are using alerts to debug your script and you’ve just realized that you have created an infinite loop by mistake :-D. However, once you’ve…
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The hacker mindset
Is it just me, or does the pharese “adding third party gadgets to gmail” cry security vulnerability? I’ve read this posting from hackaddict, and it made me curious: just what can you do from a Google Gadget? A little googling around (no pun intended :-)) lead me to this presentation: Xploiting Google Gadgets: Gmalware and…