I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' from 7.04 'Feisty Fawn' and needed to install VMware Server again. Since my previous post was very popular in helping people get VMware Server installed on Feisty, I thought I would do the same [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, October 25, 2007 in
Linux.
This is the second blog post covering Sunday's talks at ToorCon 9. You can read the first installment here. After a hard night of partying, I didn't want to get out of bed early in the morning. Gotta give props to Hikari for foreseeing this and not [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, October 25, 2007 in
Conferences,
Hacking,
People and
Security.
This weekend I was in San Diego, California for ToorCon 9 and had an absolute blast. On Friday, I had checked out the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum and enjoyed listening to veterans recount fascinating experiences on the ship during the war. I took [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, October 22, 2007 in
Conferences,
Hacking,
People and
Security.
Crawling and scraping rarely get discussed in a security context because everyone is too busy creating cute mashups and messaging their MySpace friends. I recently read Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers from NoStarch Press. The author uses PHP-CURL [...]
Posted by Dre on Thursday, October 18, 2007 in
Security.
Several of us are going to ToorCon 9 this weekend in San Diego, California. I'm flying out tomorrow (Friday) morning and I plan on visiting some sites around town, such as The Aircraft Carrier/USS Midway Museum and then head up to Little Italy in the [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, October 18, 2007 in
Conferences,
People and
Security.
In my earlier article on Using Google Analytics to Subvert Privacy, I demonstrated how dangerous free tools could be to match privacy information to web clicks. But now that Google has updated their Analytics service to support internal search queries, [...]
Posted by Dre on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 in
Conferences,
News,
People,
Privacy,
Security and
Tech.
A lot of commotion has recently been stirred up around California Governer's, Arnold Schwarzennegar's recent vetoing of a bill (AB 779) that would strictly mandate all merchants to comply with. Many have scoffed at the Governer's "caving to lobbyists and [...]
Posted by Marcin on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 in
Politics,
Privacy and
Security.
Been busy the past couple days, just started work again and haven't gotten around to posting. I promise though, there'll be stuff coming up soon. In the mean time, enjoy latest comic from xkcd: Exploits of a Mom |exploits_of_a_mom.png|
Posted by Marcin on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 in
Security.
This is in reply to Richard Bejtlich's post, "Someone Please Explain Threats to Microsoft." Richard takes issue with people (especially those who should know better) who misuse defined terms. We say a lot of things with the expectations of those who are [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 in
Security.
