The RaceToZero has captured the publics imagination (or shall I say the medias) as the latest member of the AntiVirus is dead movement. As I tried to explain in my previous post, the results of the game are rather predictable (no detection after 5 minutes) unless the organizers are really mean (giving the contestants a…

When you want to forward a port, there are several possibilities from iptables to SSH. However I needed a low-latency link with no encryption or compression (because the protocol running over it was encrypted and double-encryption just slows things down without any substantial benefit in this case). My first idea was to chain two Netcat…

I finally decided to sit down and write the tutorial about configuring Windows XP in a secure fashion, based on my experiences in the last four years or so. And I emphasize again: these methods worked well for me on several computers and even in "though" scenarios like writing and debugging software. And then I…

I was trying to send a mail to the DokuWiki development list for a couple of days with regards to a possible problem in their mailing-code and my mail seemed to go in a black hole. I started to have conspiracy theories: my e-mail address was banned. Yahoo was banned. The end is near. Finally…

This presentation seems to have popped-up on a lot of blogs lately (some may even say that it’s a successful meme): | View | Upload your own While it sounds very nice and has that "everybody should do it this way!" ring to it, there are many problems a company must overcome even to get…

Very. Thank you for reading this article, hope to see you soon. Just kidding :-), you won’t get off this easy. You’ll have to read my ramblings about the topic. It isn’t a new idea to model the malware problem using methods borrowed from the field of the biology, more specifically the study of diseases…

is as simple as 1, 2, 3 (although it ought to be as simple as 0 – it should work out of the box – more on this later). So I was trying to copy some photos from a phone to an Ubuntu machine which, although it had recognized the phone, kept coming up with…

Via terminal23.net: the Python challenge (this does not have any deadlines, nor does it carry prizes, so you can relax).

I was looking through a presentation delivered by a McAfee employee during an Indian security conference (Club Hack 2007) and there it was: a reference to a little project of mine dedicated to ease the debugging of obfuscated javascript. Neat. (Or, I could use the the word of the year and say: w00t 🙂

Via the terminal23 blog: the Microsoft 2008 Winter Scripting Games. Also with Perl for extra fun 🙂