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Daily funny
Via the MindOfRoot podcast: LandOfSilly. Two of my favorites are: Dead Cisco Sketch – I’m and IT PRo Song An IT Pro – Yeah the right Rockin’ one!
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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…
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The Global Culture Sub-Layer
I’ve said it before and I’m standing by it: If you don’t know English, you’re not a programmer However I think that a language and culture shared by many people would be a big step towards reducing the feeling of animosity we have between different groups of people. You see, people are selfish mostly. To…
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What is a perimeter weakening malware?
I’ve seen this idea floating around the Internet for some time and I thought I document it for future reference: A perimeter weakening malware is a program (script, macro, etc) which “lowers the defenses” of a computer (stops AV software, disables the firewall, creates an Administrator account with a certain password, etc) after which it…
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Measure twice…
Some time ago I was twiddling with my blog template, when I had the “great” idea of modifying the Google Analytics tracking code such that it checks the successful loading the external script before calling the logging function, to avoid generating errors when the script failed to load (because of NoScript, hosts file entry or…
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Effective self-censorship
No, I won’t be talking about China or Australia here. I would like talk about my experience of downloading a Firefox theme. The given theme was marked as experimental, and thus – to download it – I had to create a user account on the site. The F.A.Q. explains it as follows: Why do I…
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Daily funny
Found this band on Last.fm: Hayseed Dixie “A Hillbilly tribute to AC/DC”. Very, very funny. SeeqPod – Playable Search
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Spam?
I was reading about dynamic proxies in Java (sidenote: it is interesting how similar concepts get implemented in languages which are considered “far apart” – take the foreach loop or “magic” getters and setters, all of which are present in PHP, Java and Perl – just in the languages I used recently) and came upon…