Dear Mister Dell, Could you please take in consideration this request: With your next generation of servers, could you please leave at least some “free” square centimeters in front of the box ? Just to be able to put a sticker! As you probably know, it’s quite useful to label
Month: September 2004
Code to exploit Windows graphics flaw now public!
Descovered a few days ago, this new security breach can now let someone to take remote-control of the infected Windows box! To be safe, you should not download any JPEG files with Explorer 😉 See http://asia.cnet.com/news/security/0,39037064,39194791,00.htm Need to surf safely? Try this 😉
A visual history of spam (and virus) email
A guy from Microsoft has made a cool drawing: Since 1997, he kept all spam/virus received and was able to draw some kind of history: http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.aspx
I Found Some Of Your Life
Why you should always take care of your data! (usb keys, memory cards, portable harddisks, …) http://ifoundsomeofyourlife.blogspot.com/
Dear End User,
Tired by idiot users or friends who calls you to ask dummy questions? Seen on the SpamAssassin mailinglist: Dear End User, While you may think it is ok to call a person in the computer industry at home for help, it drives us crazy. Let me try to put it
French humor?
[ xavier@0-moove 0 ] ~ $ host -t txt -c chaos version.bind ns1.francetelecom.netUsing domain server: Name: ns1.francetelecom.net Address: 193.252.96.218#53 Aliases: VERSION.BIND text “ATTENTION, Pourquoi voulez-vous cette information?” This was reported by a friend of mine 😉
rate-limit or not rate-limit
I discovered some nice thing this afternoon… In my company, we are multi-homed since a few months. Our second provider provides us a 2Mbits pipe over a FastEthernet link in a colo… theorically! 🙂 Today, I got alarms due to a very high traffic coming from this ISP… Peaks up
New virtual receptionist
Today we had a new system @ office. Called GuestGuard, it will take care of all visitors movement in the Building… That’s nice. I can even receive a mail notification when my visitor arrived! Bad point: this system is much less sexy thant a receptionist! 😉
Linux SSH scanning story
There exists a multithreaded SSH bruteforcer called “haita” which try to login with ‘guest’ or ‘test’ (and same password). Read the full story on the incident@securityfocus.com mailinglist. An admin let the attacker break in a system (some kind of honeypot) and talk to him on IRC: Shell commands and IRC
Tired of playing with ‘0’ and ‘1’ ?
Everybody needs one from time to time, to learn or to quickly get a conversion. This IP Calculator is nice. There is also a perl version to download for free.