Since I’m very occupied at the moment, I won’t do a full post here, just some interesting links. I hope to get back to my normal schedule sometimes next week: Rift Widens Over Bug Disclosure – the discussion over bug disclosure continues. Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea – an added note: if…

The Perl Golf contest has ended and I have to admit I don’t even understand the winning entry so I couldn’t have written it. To my defense: I’ve been only programming in Perl ~6 months, so I can’t expect to be a guru. On the flip side: I can’t even get the winning program to…

The thing on everybody’s mind is the recent GMail hack. You can read a very good writeup about it on Joe Walker’s Blog. You can avoid it (if you are an application developer) by Not using the JSON format Not using cookies to store session ID, but rather including the session ID in the URL.…

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions – a must visit for geeks. I wished it had more ships. Via Lifehacker: DivShare – upload and share your files. No bandwidth limit. I fail to see a revenue model so I predict that they’ll disappear relatively fast but until then it is very nice (no ads, no need to…

A few months, 131 posts and I’m already getting very useful feedback. I would like to dedicate this post to all of my readers. Thank you all. Here are two very useful links which I got from my readers: From Anonymous comes: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters). If you think…

before I get to bed: Burrrn works great if you want to write FLAC files to an audio CD MediaCoder tries to connect to Sourceforge at every startup (presumably to check for updates). However it didn’t ask me once if I wanted to do that :(.

While trying to re-encode some podcasts (to have smaller file size), I learned the following lessons: MediaCoder looked very, very professional and I wanted to try it out for a long time. However, it freaked out over my MP3 file and crashed the included MPlayer. No problem I thought, I downloaded the latest Windows build…

Have you’ve had enough yet? 😀 Recently I found out about Soushin, an free solution which tries to help you secure your PHP installation (similarly to mod_security – meaning that it doesn’t require you to modify the source code of your applications). It seems that a new feature which is currently in beta test is…

Check out the 2006 Vaporware awards We have also two contests: One that has ended, and the winner actually produced a 210 bytes executable file which downloads and executes a file from an encrypted (XOR-ed) URL. See also the previous entries at the SecuriTeam blog (look for Tiny PE). And if you are into such…

Or alternatively: how to collect malware samples from the file sharing networks: Be sure that you know what you are doing! These are real, dangerous files (mostly Adware and Spyware). Get yourself a decent, open source, spyware, adware free multi network client (if you are on Windows) Search for anything. Be sure to select Any…