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I had never heard of this until I ran into working on a recent project. In “bash” you can open sockets: exec file-descriptor<>/dev/tcp/IP-or-hostname-here/port so for example: exec 3<>/dev/tcp/192.168.1.100/23 would open port 23 (telnet) to IP “192.168.1.100″ for read and write (the “<>”) on file descriptor “3″ (remember descriptors 0, 1, and . . . → Read More: Bash TCP programming hack!? This brings up a sort of interesting if not chilling thought in the world of security, particularly for large organizations: Mozilla shuts online store after security breach The title of this entry, which I’ve included verbatim, is important. To me when I read it, I’m reading “Mozilla has a problem”, or “Mozilla . . . → Read More: Rubber Or Glue, It Still Sticks… I write HTML in Thunderbird because I like some rich formatting (an area I am sad to admit Thunderbird is weak on). In particular I do a lot of indented stuff, which Thunderbird translates to simple “<blockquote>” tags. However, when I moved to Outlook 2007 (which I don’t use for mail, but was just checking) . . . → Read More: Outlook email verbosity… Here is yet another example of how the “good guys” are figuring out ways to subvert security to “help” us: http://www.h-online.com/security/Bootkit-bypasses-hard-disk-encryption–/news/113884 Basically Peter Kleissner, a young and clearly very smart university student, has figured out how to inject a bootkit in front of TrueCrypt (an excellent and free encryption product) to subvert its . . . → Read More: Eating ourselves alive… Apple may well have good and fair reasons to keep users from “jailbreaking” their iPhones, however the arguments as presented in the article are just FUD: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Apple-Claims-Jailbreaking-iPhones-Could-Crash-Cell-Towers-803734/?kc=EWKNLNAV07312009STR1 If AT&T’s cell network is this vulnerable, we have far greater worries than a little iPhone hacking. After all, Apple’s argument is essentially to keep jailbreaking . . . → Read More: Apple iPhone “Jailbreak” FUD As found on an Adobe Forum… To deactivate a PC with Adobe Digital Editions 1.x: Launch Digital Editions 1.x Enter the key-combination of <CTRL><SHIFT>D (<CMD><SHIFT>D on Mac OS) At the dialog, confirm that you wish to de-activate the machine Quit Digital Editions To reactivate and authorize the machine using the same or a new Adobe . . . → Read More: How to deactivate Adobe Digital Editions Apparently a lot of compromised browsers purposefully send a modified “UserAgent”, for instance: UserAgent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; AntivirXP08; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022) that “AnitvirXP08″ isn’t supposed to be there and best guess is it helps web sites that work . . . → Read More: Useful browser check… One of the things that most drives me crazy about Ciscos is the default setting that makes when you’re at a Cisco IOS “exec” prompt that if you type something that isn’t a command, it interprets it as an attempt to “telnet” to a host. This is a real pain in the backside as all . . . → Read More: Fixing that stupid Cisco IOS telnet thing… One of those things I can never remember! It’s: **# Lets you change the network configs among other things. Though I’m a Linux bigot, I work generally on a Windows laptop. Below is a list of my favorite free toys/tools that I use regularly. I’ve had good luck with all of them: Unlocker Assistant – for unlocking pesky locked Windows files or drives. I8kFanGUI – for controlling your laptop fans TrueCrypt – for creating . . . → Read More: Favorite free Windows toys… |
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