A new free service is available to analysts, network administrators, students or any other people involved in security: openpacket.org. The goal of this new service is to provide network traces for further analyze. This can be very useful to analyze how work well-known worms or any other kind of attack.
Category: Websites
LinkedIn Relays Spam?
I’m not addicted to social networks. I only use LinkedIn. It helps you to keep your business network up-to-date more easily. Maintaining your social networks in too much time consuming (no idea about yours, but my days should have 48 hours at least!) and I don’t like to spread personal
Upgraded to 2.5
WordPress 2.5 is out! I successfully upgraded without downtime. The new administration interface looks very nice but, more important, let’s hope that security has been increased. I found this interesting post regarding a WordPress hack here.
Computer Hackers Attack People
Read on Wired, a forum about epilepsy has been hacked last weekend. Why worry? Such incidents happen every day. In this case, the hackers idiots injected JavaScript code to display flashing colors and images! For those who ignore it, people who suffer of epilepsy can have important headaches by just
Belgian Police Website Defaced (again)
For the 4th time, a Belgian police website has been defaced last weekend (news in French). That leads me to several questions… In Belgium, there are several (196!) Police zones and Federal police services. I can totally understand that those services does not have the same needs in terms of
The new LinkedIn is out!
After some availability issues today, the LinkedIn website has been revamped! A new interface with new features! Customizable modules on the homepage A “working on” feature (some king of /me IRC command, funny!) … (much more I suppose)
Google celebrates the 25 years of TCP/IP!
Note the “SYN”, “SYN+ACK”, “ACK” written in dots under the “Goo”!
Error Handling: verbosity−−;
Developers need to implement good error handling procedures in their code. There is nothing more annoying that something like “error 0x4e45ff“. On the other side, reporting too much details to the end user can lead to security threads! Use Google and search for “mysql error and look the cached pages.
Mobile Surfing
Today, I read the an article about the most used browsers on the Internet. Here is a resume: Windows XP 78.37% Windows Vista 9.19% MacIntel 3.59% Mac OS 3.22% Windows 2000 2.97% Windows 98 0.76% Windows NT 0.63% Linux 0.57% Windows ME 0.43% iPhone 0.09% Windows CE 0.06% Hiptop 0.02%
Interactive Display Panel
Everybody knows the LED display panels. They are used in public areas to announce promotions, news, temperature… They can also be used in call centers or network operation centers to display useful information. For fun, a Spanish company allows you to enter some text via a web interface and watch