Category: OS

According to a recent study, two-thirds of staff write down passwords! Most used are Post-It kept near the computer! vnunet.com Two-thirds of staff write down passwords

Here is an article which compares PHP and ASP. When you look at the URL, you immediately know the “end of the story” 🙂 Have a look at the document rating in the bottom of the page! Head-to-Head: PHP vs. ASP.NET

Nice tools which enable different OpenBSD pf to synchronize their state! OpenBSD page

In a few weeks, the new OpenBSD release (3.3) will be available, here comes the official song 🙂 OpenBSD release song lyrics

Nice introduction to this page: “There’s no excuse to write insecure code.” – various Lot of vulnerabilities should never be exploited if all developers always followed some golden rules! The Shmoo Group – How to Write Secure Code

Tired of PocketPC? It’s now quite easy to install Linux on your PDA! There are even distributions ready for them: MIZI Research, Inc. Should be very exciting to test it but, in my case, I’ll loose my GPS applications! If somebody has a spare PDA, mail me 🙂

Micro$oft refuses to provide a fix for the latest security hole found in their Windows operating systems…. They recommend to simply protect the box behind a firewall 🙂 Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-010

You detected unusual activity on your server? Strange packets going thru your network? Your box has been compromised? First, don’t panic! Disconnect it from the network and start investigations… SecurityFocus has published a first article (two others will follow soon) regarding the tools and best practices to analyse a compromised

Today, I had too solve a problem with a server (compaq Alpha ES40 / Tru64) which was overloaded. Is “overloaded” the right term here? 🙂 localhost Fri Mar 21 09:58:58 2003 632.86 201.31 140.44

A new security hole has been found on Microsoft IIS 5.0 platform (See the CERT advisory). Here is a small perl tool which check if a web server is running IIS 5.0 with WebDAV extensions enabled: finder.pl.