To anticipate and prevent
I don’t think that anyone would argue that our world is becoming a “Global Village”, especially with the invention of the internet. I thought it would be intresting today to look at the news in other parts of the world, because frankly I don’t care about the U.S news. I found out something intresting, its…
So once again someone had made a mighty fine point that you should read the EULA on software you install, because you could get money.. Now while this is preety awesome, and If I had a small company, I’d do it too (give away money that is). Now of course, everyone should always read their…
Well I spent some time digging around the configuration of Serendipity. This was spured from my hatred of link spammers. I checked out the apache logs and found all the enteries, but they are all comming from different IP’s (smart bastereds) so IP based blocking is out. I enabled CAPTCHA’s on all comments (sorry, I…
Everyone’s heard of comment spamming right? Its where spammers use bots to drop links to their sites in peoples blogs (and wiki’s, etc). Its a meathod to increase their popularity on Google. While Serendipity (the blog software I use) has built in protection for this, there’s the “trackback” feature. Now trackbacks are cool, but they…
Dana Epp’s mentioned it first, and I thought it was worth mentioning it again. PuTTY, the worlds favorite telnet/SSH/etc client, has a security hole. If you use PuTTY you should upgrade to the latest version (released yesterday). And if you SSH/Telnet alot, and don’t use PuTTY. I sugest you try it out, it has a…
As I’m sure many have seen this bit in Bruce Schneier’s Blog about SHA-1 being broken. And we already know DES sucks. What I would love to know is how AES encryption is doing in the grand sceme of things. Right now I use KeePass (a very nifty open source project, I highly sugest checking…