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
Category: Security
SpamAssassin upgrade
We never do enough to fight spam! SpamAssassin upgraded up to release 3.1.7 on my MTA.
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
Nmap 420
A new release of Nmap is out! Release 4.20. This release implements a new 2nd generation OS detection system.
The Trackback Validator & co
Fighting against spam is one of the worst job for forum or blogs owners… As everybody, I was hit by nasty bots. It was time to take concrete actions… First, I don’t like the “quick and dirty” fix “Do not allow comments nor trackbacks”. If used correctly, they can greatly
Firewalling with OpenBSD’s PF packet filter
Great tutorial about OpenBSD’s PF… http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/
Is greylisting the solution?
As everybody, I’ve too fight against spammers! I’m running my own MTA for several domain names and the box get it 24 hours a day by spammers. I’ve a quite performant SpamAssassin solution in place (~95% of spam is catched) but I’d like to prevent them to reach my SpamAssassing
And now Apple!
After Mc Donalds, which distributes infected MP3 players, Apple detected that some iPods were infected by a Windows virus! When a label “Certified 100% virus free” on the consumer products boxes?