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There goes nothing
People, please stop the fear mongering. The F-Secure blog has a post titled There Goes WPA telling us how insecure WPA is now with Elcomsoft (great guys BTW) using the GPU to gain a factor 100 in the breaking speed and researchers breaking the TKIP part. What it fails to do is to point out…
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One (and a half :-)) challenges
Ethical Hacker just launched a new challenge. This one however is a little different since you need to buy the book Daemon to be able to solve it. The book itself has some good reviews, but still, this makes it out of reach for a lot of us :-(. And the second challenge (which is…
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Poor man’s traffic logger
I was reading the following blog post about filtering out MySQL queries and was reminded of a situation I faced once. The situation was as follows: I needed to find out where certain PostgreSQL queries were coming from, however the server was behind a pgpool instance, so all the queries were seen as coming from…
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Sun bans Romania from downloading
Confirmed from multiple locations with multiple ISPs: whenever I try to download something (JDKs) from Sun using a Romanian IP you get: Your download transaction cannot be approved. Contact Customer Service. I’ve tried downloading a SDN account (so that Sun knows that I don’t want the JDK with all the non-exportable crypto stuff) to no…
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For Star Trek geeks
Via the Radio Free Security podcast. Very geeky and very funny: For more see Hi-Fidelity quartet.
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Job offer from Nokia
Some time back I was looking around in the job marked and, amongst other possibilities, I checked out Nokia. This meant that I got added to their mailing list (voluntarily). Today I received the following mail from them: When creating your profile at Nokia’s Career Site, you requested to be notified of job openings. The…
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Moving to an always connected world
I was browsing through some of the PDC reporting, when this announced feature of Windows 7 caught my eye; DirectAccess. It’s supposed to be a VPN which you don’t have to set up, it just magically works. Really? I didn’t know that VPN’s were so hard to set up. My personal experience is with managing…
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Thinformation
Most of us in the tech world know this feeling: you see an article about something you are specialized in and you discover a lot of things which is wrong with it. In the better case these are just details which are wrong. In the worse case the entire conclusion might be wrong. The further…
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Surface mounted electronics
I’ve landed on the Surface Mount Soldering 101 and my first thought was: this is really cool, I need to tell a friend of mine who as an ASUS WL-500gP wireless router and experienced some problems with the receiving part of it (he wanted to use the router as a repeater).
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Playing tricks with the Windows PE Loader
For every software there is a specification and there is the implementation. Specifications are rarely exhaustive, thus there remain the corner cases which the developer handles based on her/his believes. As long as the handling methods don’t introduce vulnerabilities, one can say that this doesn’t make any difference. The situation becomes much more interesting when…