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CDVT Update
2009-03-11 23:02:00 I decided it was time to update CDVT, so the latest version is now checked into SVN. The Metasploit Web-based SVN seems to have stopped passing a revision number, so I removed it from cdvt.xml. At the same time I updated the regexes to scrape the version information from nmap ('stable' was previously in italics and ... More About: Update
Denial of Service the Series: Part 2 - Survey Responses (2/2)
2009-02-18 06:36:00 Yesterday I stopped halfway through and said I'd continue with the responses today. So tonight I'm going to look at the responses to: Does Web 2.0 Make Availability More Important? Are Denial of Service and Availability Interchangeable? A Browser Crash is...? A Firewall Denial of Service is...? A Web Server Crash is...? These are the questions that drew the responses that ... More About: Security , Series , Survey , Part
Denial of Service the Series: Part 2 - Survey Responses (1/2)
2009-02-17 07:50:00 So here we go... I know some people have been waiting to see these numbers so it's about time I share them. In the end 279 people responded to the survey, and I'm fairly happy about the responses... only one of those 279 used the comments inappropriately but I've still counted the drop down boxes ... More About: Security , Series , Survey , Service , Part
Denial of Service the Series: Part 1 - DoS vs DDoS
2009-02-11 21:16:00 Quite a while back I had posted everywhere and contacted everyone I knew regarding a Denial of Service survey that I was conducting. It came out of the frustration of watching people and companies disregard denial of service as a valid security concern. It seemed to be an ongoing debate -- Confidentiality & Integrity vs ... More About: Security , Series , Part
Steve Wozniak to Appear on Dancing With the Stars
2009-02-09 07:42:00 Really... the title says it all... There's a small write-up here which is where I found out. More About: Dancing , Stars , Entertainment , Steve , Dancing with the Stars
Awesome Scam Phone Call
2009-01-30 02:25:00 I just received one of the best scam phone calls every to my cell phone (I seem to be getting more and more of these calls to my cell phone and it pisses me off). The call came from (916) 219-8163 It was an automated recording that said the following: This is the second time we've called to ... More About: Phone , Awesome , Call , Scam , Phone call
TwCuP Take 2
2009-01-28 02:54:00 So previously I'd posted about writing my own curses twitter client, partially to use and partially to start playing with curses. It was quickly pointed out that I had used an older version of twyt (python library to access the twitter API) -- this taught me to think twice before running apt-get install in the ...
Titan Backup Review
2009-01-27 23:31:00 [Update: Added Screenshots] A long time ago I decided that I would never review software that I was asked to look at, and that I probably wouldn't post deals sent my way unless they were truly valuable to my readers. So when I was contacted by Neobyte Solutions with a "special offer" for my readers, I ... More About: Software , Reviews , Backup , Titan , Review
DamnVulnerableLinux 1.5
2009-01-27 18:50:00 DVL 1.5 is out, and I have mirrored it again. There is also a call out for people to create training materials, so if you can, swing by the DVL forums and volunteer to make a video or two. However, I'm unsure of where to find the forums (there's no link on the main page and ...
Blackberry IM Stalking
2009-01-27 08:10:00 So I mentioned some of this to someone the other day and they were surprised by it (and a Blackberry user) so I thought I'd do up a quick post about it... some people may not realize how much information can be determined about you. Note, these are based on my observations. Blackberry IM Status: Active -- ... More About: Stalking
TwCuP
2009-01-19 08:19:00 Those of you that follow me on twitter may have noticed that yesterday I was posting quite a bit more frequently and most of them contained the word 'test'. I was playing around with twyt and decided to build a curses-based Twitter GUI. I've never done any curses programming before, so this was my way ...
Comments Temporarily Gone
2009-01-19 08:11:00 You may have noticed that recent comments have disappeared. It appears that IntenseDebate.com is down, so I've disabled the plugin (otherwise my blog won't even load). This isn't the first issue I've had and I'm finally fed up. I don't get email notifications for all my comments, my site won't load when they are down ... More About: Comments
SSLFail.com
2009-01-13 14:42:00 I wanted to take a minute to mention a new project that Marcin and I have started that we're calling SSLFail.com. One of the primary purposes of the site is a gallery of images of sites with failed SSL due to invalid certs, bad domain names, etc. Browsers can add more and more protection against ...
Google Android
2009-01-11 19:48:00 I got my first smart phone about 2 years ago. It was the UTStarcom 6700, a rebranded HTC Apache. I used it for ~8 months and was a big fan of the phone but it had major battery issues, and even getting a replacement battery didn't seem to help. So I finally got fed up ... More About: Google , Android , Google Android
Gmail SSL Fail in Chrome
2009-01-10 22:58:00 Romain Gaucher mentioned this on twitter and I had to post a screenshot for anyone who hasn't seen it... it's awesome. More About: Gmail , Chrome
Security Implications of Microsoft Tags
2009-01-10 22:02:00 So, as I said yesterday, I'm a big fan of Microsoft Tags . There have been many times when I've been out and about and I've seen an ad or poster that I've wanted more details on, snapping a picture of a small barcode is much easier than jotting down the details. However, as I played ... More About: Security , Implications
Microsoft Tag
2009-01-10 03:03:00 I was unaware of Microsoft Tag until I saw a post the other day that a Tag application had been released for the iPhone. I read a little bit and was rather impressed, but disappointed because I don't have an iPhone. I did a little more reading, however, and found that there were already apps ...
Wikipedia via DNS
2009-01-06 15:58:00 I thought this was pretty cool treguly@ns:~$ host -t txt foobar.wp.dg.cx foobar.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "The term foobar is a common placeholder name, also referred to as metasyntactic variable, used in computer programming or computer-related documentation. In technology, the word was probably originally propagated through system manuals by Digital Equipmen" "t Corporation in 1960s and early 1970s. Another possibility is that foobar evolved ... More About: Wikipedia
How Hard is it to Get Your SSL Cert Right?
2009-01-03 11:43:00 Guess what, this isn't a post about the recent Rogue CA presentation... just something I came across that frustrated me. I recently went to check out adsense to see if it's ever actually made me any money. Being Canadian and using google.ca hourly (since google.com forces me to google.ca I might as well type it myself), ... More About: Hard , Cert
Playing with Python - nmap XML port frequency
2008-12-16 09:27:00 Two Python libraries have caught my attention lately, the first is lxml and the second is matplotlib. Ideally I wanted to write something short, just to get a feel for the basics of them. The goal was figuring out what I could do quickly so that I could play around with arguments and output, yet ... More About: Security , Port , Frequency , Nmap
New Wordpress Theme
2008-12-16 05:35:00 The old site layout worked well for the last 2+ years, however I decided I needed something new. Certain lines were being cut off and I wanted to utilize page layout a little more. Here's the result... using the iNove theme. More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Theme , Theme
The Power of hexdump
2008-12-16 05:18:00 One of my favourite new commands has become hexdump. From time to time I go through my nepenthes hexdump folder to take a look at what I've recently seen. These hexdumps on their own are fairly useless: treguly@ns:/home/nepenthes/hexdumps$ cat ffa6fd1e9b143a4bd5ac705a570e3b21.bin D CKFDENECFDEFFCFGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA EGFCEPEOFECACACACACACACACACACAAA ÿSMBrSÈÿþbPC NETWORK PROGRAM 1.0LANMAN1.0Windows for Workgroups 3.1aLM1.2X002LANMAN2.1NT LM 0.12 However, when you make use of hexdump it ... More About: Power
IP Resolution with nmap
2008-12-08 02:55:00 A question came to the nmap-dev mailing list regarding resolving IP Addresses in bulk. Doug replied with a command to do just that. I decided that it was handy to keep around but I wanted to clean it up a little, so I turned it into this: nmap -sL $1 2>/dev/null | perl -ne 'print unless /^Host ... More About: Resolution , Nmap
IP Resolution with nmap
2008-12-08 02:55:00 A question came to the nmap-dev mailing list regarding resolving IP Addresses in bulk. Doug replied with a command to do just that. I decided that it was handy to keep around but I wanted to clean it up a little, so I turned it into this: nmap -sL $1 2>/dev/null | perl -ne 'print unless /^Host ... More About: Resolution , Nmap
An Example of the ?Awesomeness? that is the Internet
2008-12-02 07:57:00 I came across this blog post on the Official Google Blog, which discusses a YouTube Symphony. This is one of the coolest things I've seen online in a long, long time. Perhaps it's the music lover in my that makes me simply love the idea, to the point that it makes me sad that I ... More About: Internet , The Internet
An Example of the ?Awesomeness? that is the Internet
2008-12-02 07:57:00 I came across this blog post on the Official Google Blog, which discusses a YouTube Symphony. This is one of the coolest things I've seen online in a long, long time. Perhaps it's the music lover in my that makes me simply love the idea, to the point that it makes me sad that I ... More About: Internet , The Internet
Why Netbooks ARE Good Enough
2008-12-01 08:52:00 Michael Arrington has an interesting post over at TechCrunch. It's a post that has drawn some controversy, controversy that I wanted to add to. Michael identifies three reasons why Netbooks aren't good enough and to put it plainly... he's wrong. I purchased my netbook (ASUS EEE PC 900) for traveling. I absolutely hate lugging around ... More About: Good
Why Netbooks ARE Good Enough
2008-12-01 08:52:00 Michael Arrington has an interesting post over at TechCrunch. It's a post that has drawn some controversy, controversy that I wanted to add to. Michael identifies three reasons why Netbooks aren't good enough and to put it plainly... he's wrong. I purchased my netbook (ASUS EEE PC 900) for traveling. I absolutely hate lugging around ... More About: Good
Scan-Me.org
2008-11-28 07:28:00 I shared a while back that I had decided to pick up two dedicated servers... rather than worrying about buying hardware and paying colo fees, I went with just paying fees... high fees, but fees none-the-less. I picked up one windows machine and one linux machine and I've been playing with them quite a bit. One ... More About: Scan
Scan-Me.org
More articles from this author:2008-11-28 07:28:00 I shared a while back that I had decided to pick up two dedicated servers... rather than worrying about buying hardware and paying colo fees, I went with just paying fees... high fees, but fees none-the-less. I picked up one windows machine and one linux machine and I've been playing with them quite a bit. One ... More About: Scan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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