So, the Microsoft COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor)
tool was leaked. I took a quick look at it, and – as expected – there is
nothing “magical”, “secret” or “backdoorish” about it (even though I
love the picture which comes with the Gizmodo
article,
the text itself is complete and utter ...
Since its inception VirusTotal has been
used by people to compare different AV products (just in case you don’t
know: VirusTotal is great free service which scans the uploaded file
with 40 AV engines currently and reports back the results). The AV
industry has objected to this practice because ...
I’ve written about Grooveshark in the past, however I want to mention them again for a couple of reasons:
First of all, they introduced a new user interface, which works great. More than that, you can now seek in the songs! This means that Grooveshark directly addresses three out ...
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I’m not a big GDB guy, but Google always
helps:
Create a textfile with the following content:
set height 0
thread apply all bt
detach
quit
Run the following command:
gdb $EXE -pid $PID -command $TEXTFILE > $OUTPUTFILE
where:
An interesting paper was bought to my attention recently by this blog
post:
The Base Rate Fallacy and its implications for the difficulty of
Intrusion
Detection.
The central question of this paper is: if we have a flow of N packets
per day and our network IDS has a false-positive ...
Got the links from a friend:
Reposted from the packetlife blog. We already pay for the bandwidth. The content providers already pay for the bandwidth. Anyone claiming anything different is either very misinformed or is straight out lying!
I recently found out about the following Firefox plugin/addon:
RequestPolicy (via this
blogpost)
– see also the Firefox addon
page. Its
function is to whitelist all kinds of cross-domain requests, including
scripts, style-sheets, images, objects (Flash, Java, Silverlight), etc.
Anything in a webpage hosted on the domain A can reference ...
After asking you if you use Perl, now I’m asking you to help build the Mozilla Developer Network (MDC). They are running a survey to get to know their audience better. Please take it if you use the MDC and have a couple of minutes of free time.
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