Bob Evans from Information Week has the most sane reporing I’ve read to date on RFID. I’m not sure why most reporters feel the need to create a stir about this technology, but it’s nice to hear a voice of… Read More »Rational RFID reporting
I’ve been a big fan of Sysinternals’ freeware offerings for some time. They recently released a rootkit detector that they describe as: “RootkitRevealer is an advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT4 and higher and its output… Read More »Sysinternals releases free rootkit detector
There is a lot of discussion going on about the hacking of Paris Hilton’s Sidekick. There seem to be four trains of thought: The bimbo gave out her password or used a weak one. Or was it socially engineered from… Read More »Paris Hilton Sidekick hack:breach, blunder or brilliant marketing?
So, my 3rd Motorola T720 finally stopped charging, and I decided that even though this phone was free from Cingular, I needed something a little less flaky. I’d really like the ability to have my phone act as a data… Read More »Why are cell carriers so afraid of data via bluetooth?
I have searched a couple of times over the last few years for a discussion forum or other online help for supporting our Executone phone system. We’ve been doing self-support for about 3 years, and can handle most of the… Read More »Excellent Phone Tech Support Bulletin Board
My household has been rocking down to O-zone’s “Dragostea Din Tei“, and I’ve been thinking “I could have written this with one hand tied behind my back”. No really, I could have – back in college I had a rockin’… Read More »Music – open source and/or free
Honeynet has an interesting article online comparing the “life expectancy” of unpatched systems. Apparently, the mean time before compromise of Linux has gone from 3 days to 3 months! While Windows have gone from days to hours or even minutes… Read More »honeypots & life expectancy
VNC to SWF sounds like the open source equilivent of a rough version of RoboDemo…. It lets you record screen activity to a shockwave file via VNC. I was unsucessful in my attempts to get this running on my OS… Read More »‘Easy’ screen recording with VNC to SWF
VNC to SWF sounds like the open source equilivent of a rough version of RoboDemo…. It lets you record screen activity to a shockwave file via VNC. I was unsucessful in my attempts to get this running on my OS… Read More »‘Easy’ screen recording with VNC to SWF
I’ve stumbled across a fix for the IDN spoofing bug (it lets websites look like another site – ie: hacker site appears to be paypal….) that uses Adblock, which I already use and am a big fan of. I’d definitely… Read More »Fix for Firefox IDN spoofing