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Blogging from Gnome
I’ve installed the Gnome Blog widget for some quick blogging, and so here it is – my first quick entry. Some updates: The HTML generated is pretty clean (probably mostly because it doesn’t have a whole lot of formatting features) It misplaced the title 🙁 (instead of making it the title of the post, it…
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stackoverflow.com
Stackoverflow went into public beta. It is a really fascinating (and addictive!) site. What does it do? It provides a place for people to ask and answer programming related questions It it a combination of reddit/digg/forums/wiki You can vote on questions/answers and also edit them (if you got enough reputation) A few quick pointers if…
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Why Web Applications Firewalls don’t block
Jeremiah Grossman describes it much more concisely than I did. To implement default-deny Web Application Firewalls (WAF) must know everything about a website at all times, even when they change. That’s programmatically documenting every expected request method, URL, parameter name/value pair, cookie, process flow, etc making default-permit deployments the rule rather than the exception.
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I smell propaganda
Being in a post-communist (whatever that might mean) country has some advantages. For example it sensitives you to propaganda. You can smell it instinctively and immediately you start to raise questions: how true is this? what are the supporting facts? Wikipedia defines propaganda as: Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the…
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Locking a script to a given user with Perl
From a security point of view it is useful if you lock sensitive scripts (for example things which download untrusted data from the Internet) to run with a low privileged user. However it is also a good idea to make sure programatically that they are run only with the given user. One possible solution (which…
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Reboot Windows – the hard way
I was clicking around via an RDP session on a Windows server and managed to kill the LSASS process (note to myself: next time pause the view of ProcessExplorer before killing processes!). The one minute till reboot screen promptly appeared and my first reflex was to stop the countdown (this is a trick which came…