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Firefox NoScript Extension
2007-07-21 09:03:00 It seems that more and more lately you see people mentioning NoScript… Every time I mention ads or “fluff” on people’s blogs the answer seems to be “Install NoScript”. I have a problem with this generic fallback answer… It’s not necessarily that I have a problem with NoScript (although I do, and I’ll describe ... More About: Firefox , Extension
Good for a laugh.
2007-07-21 01:20:00 I came across this today (via Liquidmatrix Security Digest) and thought it was good for a laugh. Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only a single ticket. ?How are three ... More About: Personal , Good , Laugh
Let Down by Grisoft
2007-07-19 02:40:00 I’m pretty vocal about being a huge Grisoft supporter. AVG is about the only AV software I trust… (I’m also a huge Trend Micro fan but I can’t justify the cost). Anyways… I haven’t launched Olly Debug in a week or two and I just went to load up some software in it. Imagine my ...
Microsoft files a patent? ?Oh No!?
2007-07-18 06:55:00 There’s been quite a bit of discussion in the last 24-48 hours on the fact that Microsoft has filed an “adware patent” ( Information Week | ars technica ). I felt that Kurt Wismer’s post was by far the most interesting. The post declared the submission of this patent to be unethical given that MS ... More About: Files , Patent , Oh No , Tent
Blogging for Money
2007-07-18 04:20:00 Surprisingly I’m not talking about people who are paid to write blog posts on certain subjects… that’s better left for another discussion. Instead I’m talking about people that plaster their blogs with ads. I don’t get this, I pay for web hosting and domain registration… I consider it part of being a geek… I currently ... More About: Personal , Money , Blogging , Blogg
Activate the iPhone without AT&T
2007-07-04 08:05:00 Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) has an interesting blog post up over on his website. He gives details on activating the iPhone without having a subscription to AT&T’s phone service. This is nice for anyone who wants the iPhone without the telephone feature… For example individuals in a country where the iPhone isn’t even available. More About: Iphone , Activate , Activa
Canada is one step closer to a DNC List
2007-07-04 07:56:00 That’s right… the United States has had a Do-Not-Call List for 4 years now, and Canada has still yet to launch one, even though the idea was announced 3 years ago. The Do-Not-Call list, introduced by Bill C-37, is one step closer to becoming a reality as the CRTC announced the rules that will govern the ... More About: Personal , Step , Closer
Increase in Port 1433 (MSSQL) Traffic
2007-07-04 04:42:00 This is just a quickie… Apparently SANS ISC has been seeing an increase in activity on port 1433. They are asking for anyone with packet captures to please provide them, and I’m making the request that anyone who passes them on also forward them to me, as I’d love to give them a glance. Also, has anyone ... More About: Security , Traffic , Port , Ease
Beware Greeting Card Emails
2007-07-02 23:57:00 In the past 24 hours I’ve received multiple “greeting card emails” telling me to visit the website and view my greeting card. A couple of points for people to keep in mind when receiving e-cards. 99% of the time, the e-card email will contain the name of the person who has sent you the e-card. If ... More About: Security , Card , Scams , Emails , Beware
7-Eleven is now Kwik-E-Mart
2007-07-02 19:47:00 Or at least some of them anyways. It’s part of a promotion of sorts and has apparently been done by 7-Eleven and not by Fox. Not a lot to say on this one… I learned of this via YumSugar.com and took a look at the 7-Eleven Locate a Kwik-E-Mart page. Unfortunately in Canada it seems to ... More About: Personal , Kwik-E-Mart , Leven
Security Bloggers Network Mailing List
2007-07-02 19:30:00 I’m a big fan of mailing lists… or at least I’m a member of enough of them. I figured I might as well join another mailing list, or in this case start one. I’m actually starting a couple but the topic of this one is the Security Bloggers Network . I figure what started as a ... More About: List , Logger
Charter Communications Browser Hijack Follow-up
2007-07-02 04:00:00 Greetings, I felt that I should follow up on this, while I haven’t heard much else about it (and I’m not a charter customer) based on the continued comments to my last post, I’m guessing that this is still occurring. A number of people who commented have a massive letter writing campaign needs to occur. So ... More About: Personal , Browser , Communications , Comm , Chart
My Solarium aka The Computer Room
2007-06-21 07:19:00 I thought I’d share these pictures of my “computer room” as it currently sits. The panoramas were taken with my cell phone (UTStarcom 6700 Pocket PC) and the “close-ups” were taken with my Kodak EasyShare CX6200. Panorama #1 Panorama #2 Close-Up #1 Close-Up #2 More About: Personal , Computer , Room
CVSS v2 Official
2007-06-21 05:14:00 Anyone who’s worked with CVSS knows that it has some serious flaws… Today we can change that statement to had some serious flaws, at least until we find problems with CVSS v2 which was announced today (via SSAATY). The incorporated changes from v1 are fairly substantial and a huge step in the right direction. They include: AccessComplexity ... More About: Security , Vulnerabilities , Official
Blog Tagging ? Going Overboard
2007-06-20 21:24:00 I was just taking a quick look at my RSS Feeds and, specifically the Security Blog gers Network. I enjoy having a compilation feed, so that I don’t have 50+ feeds to go through. I came across the latest post from the Technology Security Blog and was appalled. Half of the post was Tags for various ... More About: Personal , Tagging , Going , Goin
Nmap 4.21ALPHA4 against my apartment
2007-06-20 06:49:00 I figured I’d scan the majority of IP enabled devices in my apartment and see what they came up as… Devices Excluded: Sony Clie UTStarcom 6700 PocketPC Nintendo DS Lite Sony Playstation 2 Vonage VoIP Gateway Options: nmap -sT -O –osscan-guess Scan Results 192.168.1.1 (m0n0wall 1.22) Device type: firewall Running: m0n0wall FreeBSD 4.X|5.X OS details: M0n0wall FreeBSD-based embedded firewall version 1.22 - 1.23b1 Uptime: 3.644 days (since ... More About: Nmap
Not Seeing the Point
2007-06-19 21:15:00 Generally I enjoy reading the SecuriTeam blog, yet lately I’m not seeing a point in reading it. This article is a great example of why I don’t see a point… It’s a blog post that says nothing. It’s not even stating the obvious. I believe that the author is attempting to use the referenced Google ... More About: Point
Free Assembly Books from Intel
2007-06-19 14:38:00 I had ordered these a while ago and have them on my bookshelf… every now and then I even pull out out to consult the information they contain. What are these? They’re a series of 6 books published by Intel that you can have shipped to you free of charge (US and Canada anyways… I’m ... More About: Books , Assembly , Free
Buyer Beware! (?Returner? also Beware)
2007-06-18 06:51:00 An interesting link came across one of the mailing lists I’m on earlier tonight. It seems that a man in Nova Scotia inadvertently became a peeping tom. You might ask how you inadvertently do this… well follow these simple steps. Purchase a WiFi-enabled security camera, that emails pictures every time motion is detected. Set it up at ... More About: Buyer , Beware , Turner , Turn
Safari Beta
2007-06-18 00:12:00 Once again we see a post addressing Apple’s Safari for Windows beta and the bugs found in it. I’m not really understanding this… Web Browsers are prone to vulnerabilities… everyone knows that… Safari for Windows is a Beta everyone knows that. Beta’s are known to contain bugs, the entire idea is that the bugs get ... More About: Security
My First Problem with Vista
2007-06-17 22:00:00 I’ve had Vista on a laptop for a couple months now, and a few weeks back I bought a desktop with Vista. So far I’ve been fairly happy with it… I don’t understand a lot of the complaints that people have been making. Well a few weeks ago I needed to console into a Cisco ... More About: Windows , Operating Systems , Problem
Beating up on Microsoft
2007-06-17 04:27:00 It’s fairly well known that I’m quite the Microsoft advocate… right now they still produce the superior product. However, that’s not what I want to discuss… I want to discuss this blog post that keeps appearing on the SecuriTeam RSS feed as new (various little things are updated in it), that other websites have picked ... More About: Security , Windows , Operating Systems , Beat
InfoSec Canada
2007-06-16 09:13:00 This year I had a chance to visit InfoSec Canada for the first time, it was also my first time at a “trade show”. I was initially impressed and surprised by the size and quality of some of the displays. After wandering around a bit I was surprised by how few people were present… I ...
Daily Link List
2007-06-15 03:10:00 I know these aren’t daily but there were a few things I came across today / last night that I thought warranted mini blog posts. The first of these was a post by Rich Mogull over on Securosis.com. It’s a great post, entitled ‘Then There Was The Time I Sort Of Kidnapped Someone‘, which talks about ... More About: Daily , Link , List , Dail
When Marketing Spin Hurts You
2007-06-14 07:40:00 As most people know, my Bloglines is FULL of blogs that I read on a regular basis. Generally these blogs are interesting, however they are occasionally filled with marketing spin. This happened with a recent post on the F-Secure blog. It seems they failed the VB100 test (which they normally pass) and wanted to head ... More About: Marketing , Security , Spin , Mark
You?re a 32bit Help File? We won?t let you work on Windows?
2007-06-04 05:50:00 I must say I was a little confused today when I clicked on help in Hex Work shop and the help window I was used to in XP popped up (I bought a new computer last week, running Vista), however instead of displaying the help file, I received a message that WinHlp32.exe wasn’t supported in Vista. ... More About: Windows , File , Operating Systems , Window
Python: Download Heroes Graphic Novels
2007-05-23 08:51:00 I’m a big Heroes fan… but something I didn’t do was read the graphic novels available online… I’m not sure if reading them after the season is over will have the same affect but I guess I’ll find out. Anyways NBC has 34 of these novels now and I decided I wanted to grab them ... More About: Python , Novels , Download , Graphic Novels
AK-47, SCUD, RADAR, QoS? Huh?
2007-05-15 04:48:00 Sometimes the sheer… I’d rather not use stupidity here so… ignorance of some groups astounds me. I’m not an American citizen but I can only imagine the loss of morale among both men and women overseas and their families in the US. For those of you that aren’t sure what I’m talking about, I came ... More About: Radar
Command History in Windows Command Prompt
2007-05-06 21:39:00 I always love learning something fairly basic, that in the long run will make my day run more smoothly. Even better than that is learning it by mistake. That’s what happened to me today. I managed to accidentally hit F7 and up popped a history in my command prompt. Every command I had typed in ... More About: Windows , History , Operating Systems , Stor , Indo
Your Car is Spying on You
More articles from this author:2007-05-04 22:57:00 I came across an interesting article today. The article, “Is Big Brother in your car?” (via Thoughts of a Technocrat), informed me that cars have a “black box”… Not all cars, the manufacturers are listed in the article as: Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, General Motors, Isuzu, and Suzuki. Harris Technical (a black box ... More About: Personal , Spying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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