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Limited users – myth or reality
Fellow security blogger, Kurt Wismer, says that there are limited advantages to limited users. He is right in all his arguments: A program running in your account, even if it is a limited user account, still has access to all of your files. It can search in them for e-mail addresses, wipe them or do…
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No love for RkUnhooker
It seems that the author of RkUnhooker (you know, that guy named EP_X0FF) got very upset about my comments and first he wrote a comment to my blog – which I published a little late and I apologize for it. Then he got into personal mode and made a threatening post on his forum. My…
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New Hacker Challenge available
Just to give you a heads up: a new hackers challenge is available over at ethicalhacker.net. Good luck!
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Whos timeserver are you using?
There was a controversy some time ago involving D-Link and Poul-Henning Kamp where the former were using the timeserver set up by the later as default in their routers, effectively generating a DDoS on the server without giving any recompensation for it. The matter was amically resolved in the end, but it seems that corporations…
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Favicon for blogger
Being inspired by a post over at snook.ca I added a favicon to my blog. The original image came from MouseRunner. Given the fact that I use FireFox since a long, long time I’m entitled to use this given image :). A word of advice: always check out the license for the image! There are…
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Replying to the reply – PEiD
In a previous post I took issue with Chad McMillan’s claim that they had a revolutionary technology of identifying packed executables (btw., if you are interested, you can read my thoughts on the idea of packing your executables). He replied to me and in the spirit of fairness I publish his reply (with his consent…
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I’m back
After two weeks of hard work I’m exhausted and recovering, but ready to blog again! I published the comments received in this timeframe (sorry for not getting back sooner) and I hope to get back on track with my goal of publishing at least one (semi-)useful post for every day.
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Starting to program
Today I was asked if somebody who is getting into programming should start out with Perl? First of all I would like to say that I feel honored that somebody would consider taking my advice. Second of all, I don’t really feel that I can give an objective answer, since I’ve been doing it so…
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End even more links
The Vista team replies to the to the DRM criticism – sort of. While the some of the concerns are directly answered (ie. the whole video output is not degraded, only the video playback window is), others are not or only dubiously treated. I won’t run Vista for quite some time, this is sure. Komodo…
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PHP coders of the world – secure your code!
Being a seasoned coder myself (I’ve been doing PHP coding on and off for 6 years now) I think I can speak with some authority about this subject. I came to believe that PHP is pretty much a Perl copy-cat where they eliminated the features which they considered too hard for the beginner. While catering…