Archive for April, 2007

How shift+del ruined my morning

What I learned today? The importance of backups, and having a clear head when working on my system. Tuesday night, I am going home to Connecticut for the summer, so I started saving all my data to an external hard drive to take with me. Well, I also did a little spring cleaning at the […]

Feisty VMware install

Installing VMware Server is pretty straight-forward on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Make sure you have the build-essential package and the correct linux-headers for your kernel.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Download VMware and extract the contents to vmware-server-distrib. Run the installation script and read through it all. I ended up just saying ‘yes’ throughout the […]

Earth Day

Hey everyone, for those who don’t know, it’s Earth Day today. Stop by Home Depot and get a free light bulb. Plant a tree, clean up some garbage, ride a bike, carpool, get out there (weather is great!) and have fun. Cheers :)

Technobabylon hacked??

So I hit up the Security Bloggers Network and what do I see? A post on Technobabylon with a bunch of penises (sp?) some Indian dude with a Swastika shirt, and a whole slew of personal infromation.. Someone doesn’t like Ross Brown or eEye Digital Security… Here’s what was posted since the site was […]

What’s your favorite RE tool?

I’m looking for suggestions on any tools to reverse engineer programs for Windows based systems. I have the *nix and BSD bases covered; I’m just lacking a good, Windows toolkit. Particularly, tools to analyze memory, disassemble, debug, etc… I’ve heard positive reviews for IDA Pro, from DataRescue. Any other, [free] alternatives?
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