Recently, I bought a new notebook. My wife complained for a while about our good old Armada E500. I found a very interesting promotion for a Packard Bell notebook with a up-to-date configuration: Dual-core/2GB of RAM. Just enough to run the new Vista GUI (“Aero”). It’s time to use the
Belgium against technology?
One more time, the French part of Belgium (La Communauté Francaise de Belgique) decided to ban webcams from day-care centers (“crêches” in French)! In the US, UK or France, such systems are allowed and appreciated by the parents! From their office, they can watch their children. Why do authorities refuse
Extrusion Detection?
For those who are active in the network security domain, IDS is well-known acronym. With an IDS system, you analyze the traffic hitting your network and try to detect bad or unwanted packets. But how many companies look at their outgoing traffic? First, your firewalls must restrict the outgoing traffic
SABAM .vs. ISP – Round Two!
A few days ago, Scarlet lost a lawsuit against the SABAM. Last week, other Belgian ISPs received a letter from the same organization asking them to filter the P2P applications. I don’t want to start a new debate over copy of copyrighted data but… when those guys will realize that
When security means pains?
There were already devices activated by finger recognition (external disk [1], USB keys). Now, new toys are coming with… iris authentication! Rehobothtech proposes a new USB key with iris authentication to enable the devices! I just would like to know how to enable the device once plugged behind your notebook
Justice .vs. P2P : 1 – 0
The SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs) sent a press-release regarding a judgement against the Belgian ISP Tiscali (aka Scarlet). The Brussels court gave reason to SABAM and will force Tiscali to block P2P traffic! The Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SABAM) has just won an
SpamAssassin upgrade
On Saturday, I just upgraded my SpamAssassin to the latest release (3.2.1). For a few weeks, more and more bad emails were not properly tagged as “spam”. The upgrade went smoothly as usual but, a few hours later, my /var file system was fulfilled by the MTA logfiles. Thousands of
You have been infected!
Only “veterans” will remember “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, Stanley Kubrick) where HAL said memorable quotes such “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” or “It can only be attributable to human error.“. A new virus (BotVoice.A) actually spreading over the Internet use the Microsoft Vista speech feature
If iptables could do…
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p rain -j drop F*cking weather!