Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Here I am again, with a little delay because I was away on a conference of economics over the weekend, but I’ll cover that in a later post. This netcast started out very nicely, and I was hoping that I won’t have to write this…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. This is the 21st post. Woohoo! It’s not that impressive, but for me it is, considering that I’ve started my blog just a little over a week ago. So this will be cheerful, joyful and happy post :). I’ve selected episode 57 for this because…

Read the reason for these posts. The issue of different ports: as you can read on Wikipedia, there are three categories of ports: Common ports: from 0 to 1023 (not 1024, but the first 1024! – we computer guys are sometimes a little weird with our numbers) – these are special in the sense for…

Read the reason for these posts. This episode was actually quite good and as far as I can tell there were no errors in it. But I just wanted to get the word out: unregister vgx.dll (instructions here – towards the middle of the page where it says “Suggested Actions”) and / or use a…

Hack the Gibson! First a piece of advice: don’t hack the Gibson if you don’t have written permission to do so :-). First go watch the movie. This series of posts wants to be an unofficial errata for the Security Now! podcast by Steve Gibson (this is the first and only time I’ll post this…