OpenSSH 4.9 is out! This is a “must have” tool for my day-to-day job. Secure remote management, tunneling or file transfer. As usual, lot of bug fixes and improvements. I found the following interesting to notice: Added chroot(2) support for sshd(8) Accept the PermitRootLogin directive in a sshd_config(5) Match block.
Month: March 2008
Upgraded to 2.5
WordPress 2.5 is out! I successfully upgraded without downtime. The new administration interface looks very nice but, more important, let’s hope that security has been increased. I found this interesting post regarding a WordPress hack here.
Computer Hackers Attack People
Read on Wired, a forum about epilepsy has been hacked last weekend. Why worry? Such incidents happen every day. In this case, the hackers idiots injected JavaScript code to display flashing colors and images! For those who ignore it, people who suffer of epilepsy can have important headaches by just
Log Correlation For Free
Today, log files are everywhere! Each server or network component generates tons of log entries. All of them are interconnected to build complex infrastructures. Log files are often the first and only way to detect unusual events. The problem of security people is to be able the extract the right
Groundwork Security Dashboard
In its professional release, Groundwork has a nice feature: the dashboards. Like in your car, a dashboard helps you to have under control important parameters or values. In Groundwork, dashboards allow administrators: to safely distribute status information to specific group of users or roles to restrict information to specific group
Drive-thru Hijaking
No idea if used radio frequencies are the same in Europe/Belgium but it’s really funny!
TG’08
In a previous post, I talked about WeatherMap. A reader sent me this very nice map: The Gathering (aka TG) is a major data party event in Norway happening in the Easter. Check once how much bandwidth is used! Amazing!
PuTTY Connection Manager
As probably the majority of this blog readers, PuTTY is part of your software toolbox. For those who never heard the name “PuTTY”, it’s a free [ssh|telnet|raw|serial] client for Wintel systems. Please check the website for a complete overview. PuTTY has many options and can do almost everything at ssh/telnet
“Surfons Tranquille” Information Campaign
The Belgian Authorities will soon start an information campaign about “safe surf on the Internet” [1]. Prevention messages will be broadcasted on well known websites and radios. It is a nice initiative. Helas, security professionals know that the weakest element will always remain the end user. User education is important