Technology

Silverstr says that to be a security expert you have to get your hands dirty. I totally agree. I know not everyone is like me, but I learn by doing. Warning, there is a boring personal story in the next couple of paragraphs that is me simply reiterating the last sentance of the previous paragraph. […]

It seems like everyone is getting the latest email virus but me. I run linux so I won’t be affected by it if I do get it, but I haven’t gotten a single one! My spam folder is full of penis enlargement, viagra, foreign language, drugs, other drugs, more drugs, mortgage tips, junk mailing offers,

I was talking to Silverstr last night about the latest Microsoft worm and the new “anti-worm” worm that is making the rounds and attempting to patch systems, but causing problems in itself. Silv asked me what I thought about the anti-worm worm, and I had to reply that I didn’t know. In a way it

To the asshats at h0004bd508ca5.ne.client2.attbi.com and dhcp160164059.columbus.rr.com, please get rid of the virii or trojans on your computers that keep on trying to exploit the non-existant IIS system on my IP. [many similar lines] h0004bd508ca5.ne.client2.attbi.com – – [15/Aug/2003:11:49:37 -0700] “GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0” 404 301 “-” “-“ dhcp160164059.columbus.rr.com – – [15/Aug/2003:11:49:53 -0700] “GET /default.ida?XX[lots of X’s]XX%u9090%u6858%[more

Couple of people have mentioned problems getting to userfriendly.org lately. The problem is that the IP that it recently moved onto (69.57.142.26) is still thought of as a restricted IP by your firecard or GGOS/Gateway Guardian based firewall (or maybe something else you have). If you have a Firecard (this is for all the ex-Merilus

Way #8,428 to tell if your server has been hacked: the sshd binary is a 4 meg executable with perms of 777. Way #8,429: there is an account in /etc/passwd that has a shell of “cd /usr/bin; ftp <ip>”. Yes, a fun day at work.

For the first time in…. well, probably 10 years or so, I bought a new computer. The previous one was bought from Cardz computers and was a 386DX-33 with a whopping 1 meg of ram and a huge 100 megabyte hard drive. I don’t recall if it came with anything but MS-Dos 5.0 The computer

I’m really starting to hate Adobe and PDFs in general. Hopefully somewhere out there of my faithful few can point me in the right direction. What I need to do is take data input from a web form or database and incorporate that into an already existing PDF, and then send the resulting PDF back

I have a large RAID5 array (3x80G) shared via NFS to allow access to photos and music from my other computers on my server. When copying a large number of files over to that system, I’m noticing a huge jump in load. I’m getting a load of 7.5 on the server right now, and I’m

Michael has some good thoughts back to the olden days when