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A new security Linux distro announced: SUMO Linux Notes on hardening Apache – some of them is not applicable if you are installing Apache from packages. I liked the idea mailing the admin whenever the server is (re)started. IWF causing problems for archive.org – interesting. While it wasn’t intentional, it was more an interoperability issue,…
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Multiple websites on Windows XP – links to IISAdmin. It doesn’t seem to work 100%, so caveat emptor. From the as days pass by blog: Opera Web Standards Curriculum. A nice addition to the Sitepoint references. Google apologizes for the Japan fiasco – in big company it is hard to enforce standards across the board,…
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New Shool Information Gathering Toorcon X Edition Video – embedded below. You can also download the presentation. Very interesting and a lot of tools are mentioned which can be useful for reconnaissance. It looks like the GDrive is coming. Hopefully soon I can build my backup home-grown backup strategy, which should look something like this:…
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Books to read
I’m entirely aware that probably I won’t have time to read all of them, but I’m putting them here for future reference (all of the linked books are free): from the taint.org blog / Geeking with Greg: Introduction to Information Retrieval – very interesting with contributions from real practitioners from the all about linux blog:…
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From Slashdot: Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout. I especially liked the line “a new Facebook group called ‘People Against the new Terms of Service’ that has added more than 10,000 members today” (emphasis added). So yeah, start a group on the same site we are disagreeing with to show our protest. That should show…
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chycho.com seems to have a lot of cool videos, like this one: Just a reminder why you should never talk to the police: Some good advice to protect yourself. Of course this is just applicable in the USA to citizens (so it is not applicable to a large percentage of the people on so many…
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Conficker is using a few tricks to make reversing harder Metasploit (and other security sites) are being hit by DDoS. Some interesting thoughts: Use DNS to mitigate the attack (if the bots follow DNS, you can simply point them to 127.0.0.1, if not, you simply move servers to an other IP range and point DNS…
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Random Database Blogging
From the Database and Performance blog: Queuing Theory & Resource Utilization – a lightweight introduction into the field which explains why you don’t have linear growth all the way – at a moment you hit a magic ceiling and things get much worse. PostgreSQL Replicator is an other way to replicate your PostgreSQL database. Now…
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Gimme Dope Obama
Via Assarbad’s blog: The original is from SWR3, host of other great shows like Wie war der Tag, Liebling?. Also, some new blogs I’ve subscribed to: Nothing for Ungood Threat Research Craigrow DebugInfo Black Magic Code Also, somebody seems to have had a lot of free time: (The idea is that you can put links…
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Mixed links
(Most of these links are from the GSD blog) The Dude – a network scanning and mapping software. Free and available for Linux! SmartSniff – not very interesting, but I found out that you can use raw sockets to sniff traffic (not just to craft arbitrary traffic). 4 Tools You Need To Predict The Death…