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
So I ran across the Linksys NSLU2 at ThinkGeek today. A perfectly simple device, it has an Ethernet port and 2 USB 2.0 ports. You can plug in UBS drives (or a memory key) and make it available over the… Read More »Network storage made cheap and easy?
I’ve been shopping for a new phone, and one of my considerations (although low on the list) was getting one that would work with Cingular’s Fast Forward Service. None of the phones I like work with the service, so I… Read More »An interesting Cell to landline adapter
BBC is reporting on MIT’s Media Labs’ attempt to produce a very inexpensive laptop, predominantly aimed at education in the 3rd world. It’s being aimed at a textbook replacement. They only envision selling in in very large lots (millions) to… Read More »Sub $100 laptop for Education?
After reading about PhoneLabs’ Dock ‘n’ Talk in a Slashdot thread, I came also came across Telular Corporation. They make enterprise versions of cell to landline converters that are designed to be integrated with a company’s PBX. You could use… Read More »Enterprise cell to landline adapter
Interesting read – basically instructions on how to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on a thumb drive (USB memory key) so you can run it on different windows machines. It could come in very handy for testing or demos. I… Read More »Windows AMP on a USB
I stumbled across the new service from Jeff Pulver over the weekend. I’m not sure how I missed the Slashdot article on the story, but I’m glad I stumbled across it. The basic premise is that home Asterisk users ‘donate’… Read More »fwdOUT Phone Sharing Network