In an effort to grab some of google’s market share, Bing.com promises to be more intuitive and render results in fewer clicks. Aside from the skin, it seems like Google with a background picture to me until I discover the decision engine. I remember my dad telling me, long ago when we were using ansi …
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Eff? What is it?
Here we are, fast approaching the largest gathering of Hackers (Both Good and Bad) that meet every year. (defcon 17) You have heard me talk about these events over the years and maybe have seen Mikey, Bex, myself and the rest gang at event in a video on You Tube. I want to go on …
Janus Privacy adapter
The Janus group published a preview of their new Privacy Adapter. The hardware’s original version is a Gumstix computer mounted to a daughtercard with two ethernet ports with a web based admin control panel. The upshot is it will anonymize all of you traffic via the Tor network just by plugging it midstream. The picture …
SSLstrip
So, Crypto was telling me about sslstrip today. As it turns out, it is pretty slick and promises to be big threat to the unaware. Here’s what happens: #1 It does an MITM on the HTTP connection #2 It replaces all the HTTPS links with HTTP ones but remembers the links which were changed #3 …
10 keys to success
Today, I was wondering where my life was compared to where I wanted it to be, and took an earnest evaluation of the direction it is headed. I found myself thinking of my goals and achievements. As it turns out, I am pretty much on track. I try to never forget to keep reaching for …
Vista to update to SP2
So back in March it was just a release candidate, and now they are pushing it out to servers (since the end of April). Now they are ready to pass it to you. That is to say, it is being pushed out now and over the next few weeks, it will reach you. SP2 hit …
Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH) Flaw in Debian
Researchers from the Royal Holloway, University of London discovered a flaw in version 4.7 of OpenSSH on Debian/GNU Linux. Kenny Patterson, ISG lead professor at Royal Holloway Information Security Group (ISG) says an attacker has a 2^{-18} (that is, one in 262,144) chance of success. According to Patterson, a man-in-the-middle attacker could sit on a …
Microsoft files for a patent on a “Magic Wand”
In a newly disclosed patent application, naming J Allard and others as inventors, Microsoft seeks intellectual property protection for a concept described as a “MAGIC WAND.” Microsoft Chief Experience Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Entertainment and Devices Division, J Allard as well as others from Microsoft are listed on the application, including Andy Wilson, one of …
Wolfram|Alpha is NOT for non-geeks
At first glance, Wolfram|Alpha has the potential to blow away it’s competition. The more I played with it, the less I cared for it. Clearly if I was doing Math or some Scientific Calculation, this would be the place to go. That said, however, if I wanted to know “who played that guy on Scrubs …
So Google makes up 5% of the internet?
My buddy soco_cpp is telling me the other day, google is having a glitch… A few random comments about others being able to get to it with no issues were stated and it was left at that. Well, as it turns out, there was an outage. The fact that a “traffic jam” caused applications like …
