I’m certainly not addicted to web stats. This blog has a Google Analytics marker but I don’t follow the statistics on a regular base. After all, I’m blogging for fun and I don’t need to keep my audience at a certain amount or don’t need to attract more visitors –
Month: August 2010
Back Online!
I’m back online after a few days off in France with my wife, kids and… less Internet connectivity (but never far from a WiFi hotspot to check urgent mails). Helas, everything has an end and I’m already back in Belgium… Step one, process the huge monstrous backlog of pending information:
BackTrack4-R1 + AWUS036NH = Win!
This is a long story… but it is finally solved thanks to the developers of the BackTrack distribution! For a long time, I used a good old Orinoco PCMCIA card to play around with WiFi networks. But it died and I was looking for a brand new toy. After reviewing
The Good Security Recipe
The job of security professional is definitively not an easy one! You have to be dedicated to your job and, once your business hours completed, there are all the remaining tasks which help us to keep your expertise level at the highest level. Hopefully, we do this with passion (otherwise,
Accessing (Safely?) Nagios on iPhone
I was looking for a Nagios application to install on my iPhone for tests purpose and I was surprised to find more hits than expected. It’s true that Nagios is one of the best (if not THE best) open-source monitoring solutions. There is a huge community of developers and contributors
Integrate Blacklisting in your Own DNS Server
When you are connected to a network (Internet or private), your TCP/IP stack must know which DNS server(s) use to resolve host names into IP addresses. For a while, publicly alternative DNS servers – like OpenDNS or Google DNS – implemented a blacklist protection mechanism. If a domain is suspected