Yesterday, I successfully passed my CCSA Certification…
SpamAssassin upgrade
We never do enough to fight spam! SpamAssassin upgraded up to release 3.1.7 on my MTA.
www.rtbf.be slashdoted?
The RTBF website was in a strange state this afternoon: Due to their “End-of-Belgium” false announce yesterday, they were for sure slashdoted… I’m still trying to download the video 😉 [Update] ~4 hours later, same issue 😉
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.
Copying music is bad!
Read on blog.wired.com: Warner Music CEO Admits His Kids “Stole” Music, Didn’t Get Sued On the last day of the recent Reuters Media and Marketing Summit in New York, Warner Music Group CEO admitted that he was “fairly certain” that one or more of his seven children had downloaded music
Fun with Windows netstat
Useful tips for a better netstat usage on Windows: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1911
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