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Two channel authentication – part two
I’ve had some excellent replies to my last post (including the CTO of PhoneFactor – probably via Google Alerts or something similar 😉 – I don’t delude myself into thinking that he reads my blog :)), so I thought I expand a little on the subject: As it was pointed out in the comments, this…
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MySQL triggers and stored procedures
So MySQL is trying to be a big boy and have advanced features like triggers and stored procedures (not just UDF’s). However their syntax seems a little complicated compared to the PostgreSQL one. So here it goes: DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS mytrigger; DELIMITER | CREATE TRIGGER mytrigger BEFORE INSERT ON test1 FOR EACH ROW BEGIN…
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Updating PHP in XAMPP for Windows
Inspired by the YAIG blog, here is my how to do it post: XAMPP is a great suite to quickly get up and running with Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL. Warning! It is not aimed to be used in a production environment! Its settings are geared towards ease of use rather then security! However I…
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Recovering deleted files the DIY way
I can’t really remember if I’ve written about this or not (old age I suppose :-p), so here it goes: There are certainly easier (and better) ways to do it, here is the DIY way for those who enjoy some hands-on fun: Save the contents of the entire partition (or disk) in a separate file.…
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Mixed links
After DefCon we might have a new debugger based on Olly and with Python scripting support. A nice little (free) tool to view / edit PE files, with plugin support: CFF explorer Update: it seems that the debugger (btw, de-bugger, what an interesting word) will be made public on August the 3rd.
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Two channel authentication
I’m no Bruce Schneier, so I welcome the comments of any more informed and/or more intelligent readers (which shouldn’t be too hard ;-)). Two factor authentication is the buzz these days, it’s the silver bullet of the security industry. To provide a short explanation (which will almost certainly leave out essential facts and get others…
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Approving comments
As I explained earlier, the only reason I prefilter comments is spam. I do not censor comments based on any other criteria. If you comment didn’t show up, the only reason is that I’m being lazy (yet again :-p). However there was one comment on my Favicon for blogger (which I will update shortly by…
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Funny YouTube videos
Via the ComputerDefense blog: Intel Video Ad Directed by Christopher Guest #1 And here are some others I’ve found clicking around: Intel Video Ad Directed by Christopher Guest #2 “Mac or PC” Rap Music Video – Mac vs PC South Park Mac vs. PC
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Shooting yourself in the foot
This is a very old one and you can find it on a ton of sites. Most recently I saw it at the InfoSecPodcast blog. Rather than reposting the whole, here is just my favorite one: Unix % ls foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o % rm * .o rm: .o: No such file or directory…
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Responsinble behavior
Disclaimer: the views expressed in this post (and on the entire blog) do not necessarily reflect the opinion of my past or current employers. These are entirely my own opinions. Know your audience! and Never underestimate human stupidity! these are two ideas missed by Alex Eckelberry in his latest blog post. Before I give you…