# rpm -qa|grep year year-2006-12 # rpm -Uvh year-2007-0.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: champagne-1.4-0 is needed by year-2007-1 # rpm -Uvh champagne-1.4-0.i386.rpm year-2007-0.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: aspirin-3.4-0 is needed by champagne-1.4-0 # rpm -Uvh –nodeps –force champagne-1.4-0.i386.rpm year-2007-0.i386.rpm
Month: December 2006
Wifi security: can do better!
Today, I went to a well known commercial area near Louvain-La-Neuve. There, you can find another well known telecom operator point of sale. Usually, when I’ve some time to waste (when my wife is doing some shopping 😉 ), I sniff Wifi access points. Today, I found one, unsecured. I
Lotto.be won!
Yesterday, there was a special Lotto game in Belgium: 7.000.000 EUR as Christmas gift. If seems that too many visitors tried to check the online results. Game over! 😉
Colo Nightmare!
A few weeks ago, my box was moved to a new datacenter without prior notification(!). My hoster just gave the reason of the move: better prices! Result: six hours of downtime. Last Friday, 10PM, my server went down for an unknown reason (just before the long X-mas weekend, thanks to
CCSA!
Yesterday, I successfully passed my CCSA Certification…
SpamAssassin upgrade
We never do enough to fight spam! SpamAssassin upgraded up to release 3.1.7 on my MTA.
www.rtbf.be slashdoted?
The RTBF website was in a strange state this afternoon: Due to their “End-of-Belgium” false announce yesterday, they were for sure slashdoted… I’m still trying to download the video 😉 [Update] ~4 hours later, same issue 😉
Top-ten Security Trends for 2007
Experts predict the Future The Ten Most Important Security Trends of the Coming Year Mobile Devices 1. Laptop encryption will be made mandatory at many government agencies and other organizations that store customer/patient data and will be preinstalled on new equipment. Senior executives, concerned about potential public ridicule, will demand
System admins creativity…
Today, I was scanning a web server with nikto. System admins have really a great creativity to find nice server tags 🙂 # telnet www.xxxx.be 80 Trying xx.xx.xx.xx… Connected to www.xxxx.be. Escape character is ‘^]’. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.xxxx.be HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:34:44 GMT
Passwords management in browser: don’t be lazy!
An interesting article on SecurityFocus today: Password Management Concerns with IE and Firefox. I agree, we have more and more passwords to remember: intranets, webmails, e-commerce, … Let the browser manage and fill by itself logins and passwords is nice. But don’t be lazy! Do not use this feature and