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Installing W3AF on Windows XP
2008-04-15 02:06:00 This morning I talked about W3AF beta6 being available. Only now did I finally get time to install it... I wanted to test drive the UI, and it ended up being quite the task to get it installed. Part way through I realized that this would be a someone time consuming process and started documenting ... More About: Windows , Tools , Windows Xp
Interesting Links
2008-04-14 18:32:00 I've got a few interesting links that I thought I'd share. Up first is a map with the location of Google Data Centers (via Google Blogoscoped). This is actually pretty cool to check out. Next is OpenPacket.org, which I'll probably do a post about again sometime soon. For now a brief intro though. This is a great ... More About: Interesting , Links
OpenSSH 5.0 / W3AF beta 6
2008-04-14 07:23:00 Some new software shipped that I should have mentioned, and apparently it go past me.. The first is OpenSSH 5.0, release quite shortly after OpenSSH 4.9 (I believe it was 4 or 5 days). The following was attached to the release notes: We apologise for any inconvenience resulting from this release being made so shortly after 4.9. Unfortunately ... More About: Beta , Openssh
Site Updated - Now with Wordpress 2.5
2008-04-14 05:58:00 A few days ago I updated the site, and I must say... WP2.5 is awful... I'm actually disappointed that I had to upgrade. Having used typepad, WP, Greymatter, blogger and Serendipity... I was actually a really big fan of WP and thought it was about as good as they come. Now I'm not too sure ... More About: Wordpress , Site
Windows Server 2008 Release == Windows Server 2008 SP1
2008-03-26 13:22:00 Confused? I know I was... but this is actually quite interesting. OS Version (via systeminfo) Vista Ultimate Release : 6.0.6000 N/A Build 6000 Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1: 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 Server 2008 Standard Release: 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 You can read more about it here. More About: Windows , Operating Systems , Windows Server 2008
Using Tor Users to Solve CAPTCHAs
2008-03-23 20:00:00 A discussion elsewhere got me thinking about this, and some quick googling didn't turn anything up. If there are already write-ups on this, I would love if people could point me toward them. Let's say that you are using Tor. When your traffic traverses Tor, it hits an end-point somewhere. That end-point knows that it is ... More About: Security , Users
Thank You Google!
2008-03-23 02:08:00 A couple of weeks ago I posted about certain GMail features not being available in Google Apps for Domains. I was out of town last week and other than taking in RENT last night on stage, I've pretty much been asleep the entire time. I just logged into my Google Apps for Domains account for ... More About: Personal
Going to San Francisco
2008-03-18 06:48:00 In ~5 hours I'll be on a plane heading to San Francisco ... I'll be there for nCircle CONNECT. So if anyone is going to be in SF in the next few days... let me know... I doubt I'll have much free time, but I may have time for a drink in the hotel bar. Fire ... More About: Personal
andLinux
2008-03-16 06:01:00 For quite some time now I've been a regular user of Cooperative Linux (coLinux), which I think is best described on its website: Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel ... More About: Operating Systems
Gmail & LinkedIn
2008-03-15 09:34:00 I've already partially talked about this recently but I wanted to bring it up again. I'm a huge Google fan... I know a lot of people see them as the new Evil Empire, but I really don't see them that way. One of my favourite Google launches was Gmail . I used it for quite a while ... More About: Personal , Linkedin
Fraud Prevention
2008-03-10 08:43:00 One of my favourite non-IT blogs has got to be The Consumerist. I really like the idea of a public online watchdog that has the freedom to publish pretty much anything. Anyways, the other day this post caught my attention: Why doesn't a bank (cough HSBC cough) offer the option to have text message alerts sent to ... More About: Fraud , Fraud Prevention , Scams , Prevention
What is WinInit.exe?
2008-03-09 08:24:00 So I was browsing Task Manager on my Vista box as Admin (Show all users processes) and I noticed wininit.exe. This file has that "virus ring" to it, so I decided to check it out. I'm positive my system hasn't been infected with anything, but there's never harm in checking. I did some searching and ... More About: Windows , Operating Systems
Possible Memory Issue with NoScript 1.4.9.5?
2008-03-09 07:50:00 Something I've had to accept is a slow computer at home... I currently have 1GB of RAM and I'm running Vista (I've purchased new RAM, however I purchased PC-6400 and my board only supports PC-5400 (it won't clock down)). On top of Vista, I'm a Firefox user. While I like the improvements to IE7, I ... More About: Memory , Issue
Komodo Edit Now Open Source
2008-03-08 07:27:00 I just discovered this today when Komodo Edit said it had an update available... the release notes lead me to Open Komodo and I eventually stumbled across an ActiveState press release. ActiveState today announced an updated, open-sourced release of Komodo Edit, the popular and free editor for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus ... More About: Tools , Open Source , Source
Post Sharing: Trust Me: DoS is Dead?
2008-03-07 21:48:00 For people that read my blog and don't read 360 Security , I wanted to share a blog post I recently posted over there. The concept is simple... and previously discussed, however I recently dealt with the result of this new trend and wanted to bring it to the attention of people who are unaware. Essentially ... More About: Post , Dead , Trust , Sharing
Google Apps
2008-03-03 00:37:00 I use Google Apps. I'm a huge fan and I think it's amazing. The features that are made available free of charge, are really no different than the features any gmail user gets, except that you get to apply your own domain name. At least that's what I used to think. Several people I know ... More About: Google Apps
Virtualization and Security
2008-02-26 01:06:00 Virtualization. A technology that is supposed to save organizations money... take 10, 20 or even 50 physical servers and run them on a single virtual server. The concept seems to make sense; after all, as someone recently pointed out to me... virtualization has existed in the mainframe world for quite some time. The problem today ... More About: Security , Vulnerabilities , Virtualization
Virtualization and Security
2008-02-26 01:06:00 Virtualization. A technology that is supposed to save organizations money... take 10, 20 or even 50 physical servers and run them on a single virtual server. The concept seems to make sense; after all, as someone recently pointed out to me... virtualization has existed in the mainframe world for quite some time. The problem today ... More About: Security , Vulnerabilities , Virtualization
Job Ad mentions Cisco Routers?. OH NO!
2008-02-23 07:21:00 Brian Krebs has an interesting article up over on Security Fix. Entitled, "How Not to Write a 'Geek Wanted' Ad", it discusses companies that identify the hardware / software running within their infrastructure and how this is a bad idea. Now before I disagree entirely with the article, I do want to preface it by saying ... More About: Cisco , Routers
Job Ad mentions Cisco Routers?. OH NO!
2008-02-23 07:21:00 Brian Krebs has an interesting article up over on Security Fix. Entitled, "How Not to Write a 'Geek Wanted' Ad", it discusses companies that identify the hardware / software running within their infrastructure and how this is a bad idea. Now before I disagree entirely with the article, I do want to preface it by saying ... More About: Cisco , Routers
Microsoft Release Several Server/Communication Protocol Specs
2008-02-22 16:45:00 Today there are a lot of people talking about the release of the Windows Server Protocols and the Windows Communication Protocols. They are series of specs defining various proprietary Microsoft protocols. There are plenty of them and they are rather in depth. These are being released right on the heels of last week's release of ... More About: Security , Operating Systems
Microsoft Release Several Server/Communication Protocol Specs
2008-02-22 16:45:00 Today there are a lot of people talking about the release of the Windows Server Protocols and the Windows Communication Protocols. They are series of specs defining various proprietary Microsoft protocols. There are plenty of them and they are rather in depth. These are being released right on the heels of last week's release of ... More About: Security , Operating Systems
New Comments
2008-02-21 07:30:00 I just installed the comment plugin from Intense Debate... It seemed to be a fairly painless install... I'm hoping that this post will tell me whether or not it's working. It looks like it's pretty cool, feel free to check it out on the Intense Debate website. More About: Comments
New Comments
2008-02-21 07:30:00 I just installed the comment plugin from Intense Debate... It seemed to be a fairly painless install... I'm hoping that this post will tell me whether or not it's working. It looks like it's pretty cool, feel free to check it out on the Intense Debate website. More About: Comments
Scan Your Way To Check Fraud.
2008-02-11 08:30:00 An article from the NY Times entitled, 'Scan ning Your Money to the Bank' recently came to my attention. The gist of the article is as follows: There's an Act (Check Clearing for The 21st Century) that allows for the exchange of electronic images of checks rather than the physical checks... Numerous banks and big business ... More About: Security , Fraud
Scan Your Way To Check Fraud.
2008-02-11 08:30:00 An article from the NY Times entitled, 'Scan ning Your Money to the Bank' recently came to my attention. The gist of the article is as follows: There's an Act (Check Clearing for The 21st Century) that allows for the exchange of electronic images of checks rather than the physical checks... Numerous banks and big business ... More About: Security , Fraud
Update on Port Scanner Challenge
2008-02-04 10:27:00 The other day I posted the Port Scanner Challenge , and a follow-up article declaring a winner. This lead to a couple of things... First, Robert E. Lee (who is associated with UnicornScan) started a blog to perform his own independent tests. I encourage everyone to look at the results... but I remind everyone that Robert is tied ... More About: Security , Tools , Update
Update on Port Scanner Challenge
2008-02-04 10:27:00 The other day I posted the Port Scanner Challenge , and a follow-up article declaring a winner. This lead to a couple of things... First, Robert E. Lee (who is associated with UnicornScan) started a blog to perform his own independent tests. I encourage everyone to look at the results... but I remind everyone that Robert is tied ... More About: Security , Tools , Update
ComputerDefense Silc Server
2008-02-03 02:41:00 I was bored the other day, so I've setup a silc server. You can use the silc client or Pidgin to access it. My client is idling on there in lobby, so feel free to come by and see if I'm floating around. The server is @ securitysentience.com More About: Personal , Server
ComputerDefense Silc Server
More articles from this author:2008-02-03 02:41:00 I was bored the other day, so I’ve setup a silc server. You can use the silc client or Pidgin to access it. My client is idling on there in lobby, so feel free to come by and see if I’m floating around. The server is @ securitysentience.com More About: Personal , Server 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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