Quick note: I was listening to the latest episode of Watchguard’s Radio Free Security podcast (no relation with them, other than a listener to the podcast) and they discussed an interesting technique for filtering websites (I’m no fan of traffic filtering, but the technique seemed interesting): Usually SSL requests are either blocked by the target…

Apparently Google isn’t the only big web company closing down some of its offering. I got this email today: I didn’t use the service, but some of my readers (all 2 of them :-p) might, so watch out. As a security side-note: it is nice how Yahoo attaches a little icon to their “official” mails.…

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about a terminal emulator called “Terminator” for Linux, so I decided to give it a try. While looking at the authors site, I found the following posting: My new project: juicyD (maybe) The idea is simple, but has a stroke of genius in it: instead of burning CD’s, store…

I’ve woken up today to find that CastleCops is going offline (link from DISOG). From their website: Greetings Folks, You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to investigate online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet…

You most probably have TCP checksum offloading enabled in your NIC. You can disable it, just know that enabling/disabling it will probable reset your network stack (so don’t do it on remote system). PS. This is not always the case, I’ve seen the same error message on systems which didn’t have TCP checksum offloading (and…

From the SANS blog: At SANS Internet Storm Center, we are always researching and monitoring the latest trends of attacks on the Internet. We are currently developing a web honeypot project similar to the Dshield model. The launch time is a few months away and the project is in need of volunteer researchers to help…

Via Userfriendly: join the World Community Grid and help save lives – effortlessly. Do I sound like a late-night TV commercial? Now with no added sugar! 🙂 All jokes aside: WCG is a cool community project which dedicates idle CPU time to things like cancer research. While I don’t recommend that you leave on computers…

Scott Hanselman thinks that I’m linkbaiting. Just wanted to let everyone know, I stand 100% behind my affirmation that If you don’t know English you are not a programmer. I personally think that the following commenter (also cited in the blog) nailed it: It would *seem* (totally non-scientific sampling) that the non-English speakers (as a…

My friend Dan D. mentioned that the new inline commenting system wasn’t playing nice with NoScript. After a little looking into it I found that indeed, Blogger is using JS to render the form (why?). To reduce the pain a little I’ve added a link to the old method of leaving comments which should appear…

People, please stop the fear mongering. The F-Secure blog has a post titled There Goes WPA telling us how insecure WPA is now with Elcomsoft (great guys BTW) using the GPU to gain a factor 100 in the breaking speed and researchers breaking the TKIP part. What it fails to do is to point out…