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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
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
Security Bloggers Network has a new Home
2008-11-22 22:25:00 From the email: We have the URLs for the new SBN site. You can access the site at http://www.securitybloggersnetwork.com or http://www.securitybloggers.net. Right now the site is simple, but we will build it up over time. Check it out and make sure your feed is displaying correctly -- but your blog title should be automatically ... More About: Security , Home , Network , Bloggers
Security Bloggers Network has a new Home
2008-11-22 22:25:00 From the email: We have the URLs for the new SBN site. You can access the site at http://www.securitybloggersnetwork.com or http://www.securitybloggers.net. Right now the site is simple, but we will build it up over time. Check it out and make sure your feed is displaying correctly -- but your blog title should be automatically ... More About: Security , Home , Network , Bloggers
Go Software! KiTTY and Komodo Edit
2008-11-08 09:45:00 Odd Title... but it's 3:30am. The first thing I wanted to mention was KiTTY ( via /dev/random). It's a fork of PuTTY, which is nice given PuTTY is on a rather slow development cycle, and new features are almost non-existent. Some of the features include folders within the saved sessions box (although, not implemented as "friendly" ... More About: Software , Kitty , Edit , Komodo
Go Software! KiTTY and Komodo Edit
2008-11-08 09:45:00 Odd Title... but it's 3:30am. The first thing I wanted to mention was KiTTY ( via /dev/random). It's a fork of PuTTY, which is nice given PuTTY is on a rather slow development cycle, and new features are almost non-existent. Some of the features include folders within the saved sessions box (although, not implemented as "friendly" ... More About: Software , Kitty , Edit , Komodo
Labs Feature in Google Apps
2008-11-01 07:33:00 This is a "wish post". I'm a huge fan of Google Apps, I love using my @computerdefense.org email address with everything Google and having it inside of GMail is great. However there are a number of labs features that I would love to have access to and don't get because I use Google Apps intead ... More About: Feature , Labs
Labs Feature in Google Apps
2008-11-01 07:33:00 This is a "wish post". I'm a huge fan of Google Apps, I love using my @computerdefense.org email address with everything Google and having it inside of GMail is great. However there are a number of labs features that I would love to have access to and don't get because I use Google Apps intead ... More About: Feature , Labs
Microsoft Out-of-Band Bulletin
2008-10-23 07:55:00 So, for anyone who didn't get the email, or hasn't heard yet... it looks like Microsoft is releasing an Out-of-Band Bulletin tomorrow. I'm excited to find out why there was cause for an emergency patch release. Side Note: Possibly the shortest blog post ever.
Microsoft Out-of-Band Bulletin
2008-10-23 07:55:00 So, for anyone who didn't get the email, or hasn't heard yet... it looks like Microsoft is releasing an Out-of-Band Bulletin tomorrow. I'm excited to find out why there was cause for an emergency patch release. Side Note: Possibly the shortest blog post ever.
NoScript Force SSL
2008-10-20 21:17:00 I've always commented that I'm not a big fan of NoScript... I find browsing "modern" websites to be almost impossible with the plugin installed. For this reason, I don't know how popular it is with "the masses". That being said, I use it because a hindrance is better than a gaping security hole. However, I've now ... More About: Security , Force
NoScript Force SSL
2008-10-20 21:17:00 I've always commented that I'm not a big fan of NoScript... I find browsing "modern" websites to be almost impossible with the plugin installed. For this reason, I don't know how popular it is with "the masses". That being said, I use it because a hindrance is better than a gaping security hole. However, I've now ... More About: Security , Force
Why I Changed Feed Aggregators
2008-10-13 06:40:00 For the longest time I've been using Bloglines to read RSS feeds. I've used standalone readers in the past (NewsFox and Viigo) but I've found that there's no way to sync them (I read feeds on 3-4 computers, as well as my phone) and that was a real problem for me. Bloglines is very clean ... More About: Feed
Why I Changed Feed Aggregators
2008-10-13 06:40:00 For the longest time I've been using Bloglines to read RSS feeds. I've used standalone readers in the past (NewsFox and Viigo) but I've found that there's no way to sync them (I read feeds on 3-4 computers, as well as my phone) and that was a real problem for me. Bloglines is very clean ... More About: Feed
SecTor - Day 2
2008-10-09 21:36:00 I'll start of by saying the second day of SecTor was amazing compared to the first day. We started off with Stepto giving the opening keynote. While it wasn't anything groundbreaking, it was exactly as advertised and well presented. I fully enjoyed hearing him walk through how he got into security, his time with MSRC ... More About: Reviews , Cisco , Checkpoint
SecTor - Day 1
2008-10-09 05:05:00 I debated what to write here, and if I would present the positive or negative points but I figured the only fair way was to describe both, so without further ado, I present SecTor Day 1 - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. I figured I'd describe my day from start to fishing, instead of ...
SecTor - Training
2008-10-08 06:16:00 So I was lucky enough to be able to take part in SecTor training this week (as I previously mentioned). I spent all day Monday in HD Moore's Metasploit training. Having been been an avid metasploit user for quite some time, I was hoping that the training would include some features that were unknown to me. ... More About: Training
SecTor Goodies
More articles from this author:2008-10-07 07:53:00 So I spent today in training @ SecTor. I attending HD Moore's metasploit training and rather enjoyed myself... I picked up a couple of things that I'd been previously unaware of. Since I was already onsite, I took advantage of the open registration booth and picked up my SecTor goodies. Instead of the cooler bag (last ... More About: Reviews , Goodies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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