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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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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…
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Help wanted by SANS
From the SANS blog: At SANS Internet Storm Center, we are always researching and monitoring the latest trends of attacks on the Internet. We are currently developing a web honeypot project similar to the Dshield model. The launch time is a few months away and the project is in need of volunteer researchers to help…
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Hardware hacks are cool but dangereous
Via H_I_R’s bookmarks I found the following post: Make use of your old PS/2 ports. The blog is currently down. Coincidence? 😛 The idea of the post was to take your unused PS/2 ports and use them as a power source to charge your mobile phone, which would otherwise support charging through USB. The idea…
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Microsoft .docx format – fail!
I was installing a WinXP + Office 2003 machine for an acquaintance and of course let Windows Update get it to the latest patchlevel. During this process the MS GDI+ detection tool popped up and said the the computer had software which may be affected by the GDI+ vulnerabilities (correct, since I had Office 2k3…