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More links
Zone-H got defaced!. Read the article for an in-depth analysis. America is in debt bigtime Pamela-Systems – is it just me or does this name remind others too of the other Pamela (the NSFW one)?
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A mixed bag of comments – part 2
Via the boagworld forum: Web Design Tools. I haven’t checked them all out, but the color chooser ones look very interesting. A simple (but not really easy to use and unsupported tool to mount CDs from Microsoft (via tech-recepies): Virtual CD Control Panel – be sure to take a look at the readme file before…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #71
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Hello all! Here is the latest of my rants / commentary series regarding the Security Now! podcast. This podcast is dedicated to discussing a vaporware security freeware: SecurAble. This isn’t more than a glorified CPU identification utility, similar but (based on the description) much more…
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A mixed bag of comments
A short post of things I found in my Google Reader: A new challenge from the guys over at SANS: The Twelve Days of Christmas Packet Challenge Also there are some vulnerabilities there: All I want for christmas are my exploits…. – my thoughts: you have to be insane to put your DB server on…
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I’m not a ‘lone bitter old man 🙂
You might remember this post, where I was criticizing the so called vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. Alex Eckelberry over at the SunbeltBLOG just came out with a post saying the exact same thing. While I don’t agree with many of his previous posts (like those about HIPSs and Patchguard), this one is spot on.
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What you don’t need javascript for – part 2
Read part 1 of my rant There is a saying in Hungarian: Don’t look at the teeth of a horse you received as a gift. It refers to the fact that you shouldn’t criticize something if you get it for free. However from time to time I feel the need to raise my voice about…
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Hackers and Hollywood
Servers in the Movies Top 20 Hackers in Film History What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)
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Portable GUI applications
After moving almost entirely to Ubuntu (I haven’t booted Windows on my home computer for almost a month now :)), I searched for ways to create little applications which I can use at my workplace (in a mostly Windows environment). For command line scripts Perl worked out great (just a reminder to everyone, including myself:…
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The fact that you write for a big site doesn’t make you an expert
The corollary of the above being: don’t rephrase what the expert said if you don’t understand it. Real life example from an eweek article: The Redmond, Wash. software giant has convinced major U.S. computer makers—including Dell, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard—to make default changes at the BIOS level to allow a new Vista security feature called ASLR…