In a previous post, I talked about US authorities who have rights to read your hard drives. Today, Microsoft announced a new toy USB stick called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. “The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which
Category: OS
XP SP3 Changelog
The 3rd service pack for Windows XP will be released soon. Here is a changelog. It seems that the pack is already available for download ( ~350MB). The new features regarding security are: Network Access Protection Credentials Security Service Provider Enhanced security for Administrator and Service policy entries Microsoft Kernel
Debian apt-get upgrade exception
Quick tip to help you to manage packages on a Debian distribution: How to perform an upgrade (apt-get upgrade) without upgrading one or more critical packages? I’m running a Debian server with a Groundwork monitoring tool. Groundwork requires specific MySQL packages that cannot be upgraded. # cat <<END | dpkg
Storage Security: RAID vs Sync
Last week, one of my hard disks crashed. I maintain a file server @ home running OpenBSD with the raid(4) driver. This setup was done in Augustus 2007. The design is quite simple: 2 x 250 GB disk configured in RAID1. I already had a power outage two months ago
OpenBSD 4.2 is out!
Theo de Raadt has just announced the availability of OpenBSD 4.2.
ext3cow
How do you manage your files versions? Let’s imagine a source file ‘foo.c’. You work on it and would like to revert to a previous version. You have several choices: Use a CVS system: CVS, subversion, … Use naming convention: ‘foo.c-YYYYMMDD-VERSION-user’ Now, you can use ext3cow, a versioning file system
XP Automatic Update Nagging
How to tune the Windows Automatic Updates service to not bother you again and again every 10 minutes! Great! See here!
4.1 released on May 1st
The new OpenBSD release 4.1 will be released on May the 1st! Here is a list of changes.
Dr Watson promises?
Playing with Vista (eh, be up-to-date is mandatory in our business!), I got my first application error: I like the sentence “Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.“.
Fun with Windows netstat
Useful tips for a better netstat usage on Windows: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1911