Classic Tech Tips Archive

So.... what is arp spoofing (poisoning).... and what are it's implications? ARP spoofing involves tricking a machine into thinking that you're machine is, yet another. Let's put this in IP address te…

So, for those that have a little bit of knowledge about network hardware, you've probably heard this. "You can't sniff switched networks".... wrong.... let's see what this is about. Older networking …

A while back I did a network security series and one of the points that I mentioned was that it's important to know what is normal for your network. In other words, what machines are NORMALLY connect…

This is a good idea.... let's say you want a linux install, but you're very particular. You'd like to have a certain setup out of the box, say a basic desktop with OpenOffice and Firefox/Thunderbird.…

The Official Googleblog has an article today about their decision to filter results in China. I took a look at the Chinese version today (I saw an image search comparing Tienamen (spelling?) results …

There have been a couple stories out of the "Blackhat federal" conference in the last couple days. Brian Krebs at the Security Fix gives a good overview. One of the more troubling notes is the possib…

Lot's of news following up on the Nyxem worm in the last few days. It's currently going under a number of names, the Kama Sutra Worm, Blackworm are some of the more common names. Sans has a page for …

First I should raise an alarm of warning on this one, this virus is supposed to overwrite all accessible document files (network shares too) on the 3rd of the month, so February 3rd we may be seeing …

One of Google's longest Beta-tests... Google News has now graduated from beta status. There is a "suggest news stories" options in the personalized search feature. I wondered if it would ever be non-…

I've made quite a bit of use out of the wikipedia in recent years. I know it has it's flaws (I've run across some first hand), but I've found typos in textbooks as well. However that doesn't mean tha…

The last few days has been a situation of "too many things to do and not enough time". I've got a growing list of items that I am interested to post in coming days, but things have been busy enough t…

This really could be used to encyrpt web traffic over any "hostile" network. Here's what I'm talking about. Laptop using wireless. Within our internal network we would LIKE all our web traffic to be …

I mentioned this a while back, but I didn't go into much detail on a long term solution. Let me re-set the situation. Linux server running apache2. It's Mandrake (now Mandriva) (an older version.) Wh…

F-secure has some details on a dangerous payload for the Nyxem.E virus. (The Nyxem.E virus is very similar to the Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi that was talked about earlier in the week.) In fact, this viru…

I've just been sitting down with the laptop for a while (Dell Inspiron 8000) it's an older laptop by current standards I guess, but it does well for me. The inspiron 8000 has some "hotkeys" for volum…

I've seen several reports on F-Secure's security bulletin about a code execution vulnerability. The announcement on the f-secure blog mentions that it affects several versions of their products on Wi…

I was doing a remote connect to a machine today and the "send ctrl-alt-del" for some reason didn't work to bring up the task manager, so I had to get to it another way. For those that never noticed (…

I really ought to find a way to alias "rm -f *" to "rm -i" IF the time is between 1 AM and 7 AM.... Last night I was working late (2:30AM or so when this happened). I had just made a few "refinements…

So, I've been looking back over my list of "scripts" that are pulling in audio from various news sources online for the onlineradiotv.com site. It's also got me doing a bit more spanish language list…

A while back I talked about Google Earth under Codeweavers wine almost working (or at least I think I mentioned it here, I KNOW I tried it...) Well, I tried with vanilla wine as well and couldn't get…

Sunbelt blog has the details on a spysherriff clone called pesttrap (distributed through pesttrap.com). I guess clone is not the best word as they're calling it a "variant" which suggests to me that …

I normally don't follow updates for Oracle, as I don't have an installation running Oracle to support. Right now, I'm quite glad of that... The Security Fix is talking about the 82 patches they relea…

It's been a long day out and I didn't have but a few moments to check mail this afternoon. I did happen to check stats and saw a lot of people visiting an old article (November 28th) on a Worldnic DN…

I haven't had much time to look into this, but one of the mailservers I administer is typically configured to relay through mail.lig.bellsouth.net, with mail.averyjparker.com as a fallback. Sometime …

F-secure has information on a fairly aggressive new email virus. Their name for it is VB.bi although it's aliases are.... W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi depending…