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Google spam – aka I’m back
My workload has lightened a little and hopefully I can continue to blog more frequently. But enough of this, let’s get to our main subject: Recently I’ve been seeing a growing number of spam which links to Google instead of the spam site. The idea is (probably) to avoid filters which check the link targets…
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Spreading the love
I’ve heard that one of the goals for the Wikiscanner author is to get first place on Google for the term Virgil. So here is my contribution to it: Virgil. Thank you.
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NoScript trick
In a previous post I discussed how to combine NoScript with co.mments.com As I later discovered the main problem was that the bookmarklet worked by inserting a script tag in the document, which, if scripting was disabled for the given page, could not be evaluated. I worked around this problem by using the temporary enable…
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Security product testing
Just a quick rant about the comparison of different security products (in the largest sense of the word): Many times we see things said like product X stops 100% of all (known) malware. First there is of course the problem that some people omit the known part which makes them by default ripe for lawsuits.…
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Malicious hosts
There is a new study on the honeynet site, titled Know Your Enemy: Malicious Web Servers. While the study is interesting, there isn’t anything particularly new about it. The methodology was very similar to other studies in this area (the Google Ghost in the browser – warning, PDF – study or the Microsoft HoneyMonkey project
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Hack the Gibson #106
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. I have a good news for mister Gibson: SpinRite would actually work on the Mac with VMWare. Because although Macs are EFI based, the hardware emulated by VMWare uses the good old protocols, which means that as long as VMWare has the capability to mount…
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Power management for Ubuntu
I was praising Ubuntu earlier for its great hardware support. One thing it didn’t have out of the box however (which is a very nice feature of modern hardware) was dynamic frequency scaling. There is a detailed description over at the Ubuntu Guide wiki which worked nicely (yes, you actually need to remove packages –…
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Setting up Xming or RDP equivalent for Linux
To give a little background: the GUI under Linux (and Unix) is usually distributed the following way: X (the short term commonly used for X Windows System or X11) – this knowns how to draw some primitive elements (like boxes, text, etc) and to get input (from keyboard, mouse, etc) and also has the primitive…
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Ethical hacker challenge – Serenity
I didn’t win the latest ethical hacker challenge, one of the reasons being the lack of my film-trivia knowledge. So here goes my answer to the challenge, maybe somebody finds it useful. You can also compare it with the winning submission. 1. What tool did Kaylee use to remove the malware? How could she find…
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Ethical hacker challenge – Microsoft Office Space: A SQL With Flair
Just a short post: I won – finally! Rather than re-posting the whole answer I’ll provide a link to it: Link. I won’t be claiming the book, because I have rather bad experiences with the Romanian postal service, but it’s nice to be recognized. Two ideas which came after I submitted my answer: It is…