Haroon Meer
i know this has been blogged all over the interwebs..
but Leopards default icon for windows machines has to rank up there with dvwssr.dll
(yeah.. thats a BSOD)
/mh
ok.. who’s old enough? what was the similarity between this and dvwssr.dll ?
Mind Control, Big Cats, Feynman && kiosks…
Aka… A good weekend..
The weekend got off to a slow start, when Amazon claimed it would take a little longer than planned to ship us the “Web Application Hackers Handbook”. Fortunately it picked up after that..
The first ray of light was finding a new strange bug on a huge application that smells a lot like full remote code execution.. Then the office had a power-outage and i felt the rage building.. drove to the office to collect my stuff mumbling statements related to 3rd world and feeling sorry for myself, but.. i needed to complete a report and needed to be in JHB later that night, so decided to stop off in Sandton City where i could work for a bit (exclusive books: coffee + gprs + deels could enjoy herself too)
PauldotCom Interview, Part I
OK.. so part one of our pauldotcom interview has hit the interwebs.. it was fun and involved a power failure and a dog that chewed through charl’s microphone cable about 15 minutes before the interview started..
My thoughts on it were best expressed earlier on irc..
-snip-
12:04 <+MH> i sounded (cleverer/less annoying/less nasal) in my head..
12:04 <+MH> apparently hearing ur own voice through ur teeth explains (3).. (1) and (2) i suspect are just mild delusions..
9 days to leopard…
You can almost taste the fanboy excitement.. but im guessing there will also be the mandatory rush for the first big bug announcements..
There are a few things that look cool.. Apple joins the right decade with ASLR and native multi-desktops looks cool.. DTrace on osx seems like a winner too..
Of course, theres also the much touted: “Back to my mac” feature:
[watch video of it in action]
MSDN Mag – Security Edition is out..
The November edition of MSDN magazine [is available] and is another security issue.. The articles look interesting, and if you look closely you should notice articles by infosec rockstars like mike howard, damien hasse and the occasional member of LSD..
Grab it while its hot…
Piotr Bania Agrees.. Metal Gear Rocks.. (warning.. this post has 0 to do with infosec)
Way back in 2000 i bought my kid sister a Sony PlayStation.. I have never been a big gamer (not since arcade games when i was tiny) but a reliable source at work convinced me to play Metal Gear – Solid. The game was awesome and for the period i played it, it dominated my life.. im not a gamer so probably not qualified to use words like gameplay but found the game incredibly intuitive and seldom ever found it “gamey”.
The proof of the pudding ?
Royal pingdom did a quick check on what was running at some of the more popular sites on the Internet and end up with the following table:
Its intersting for a whole bunch of reasons that im currently too sleep y to write about.. (sleepy??? must be old age?)(or the flu pills im taking)
The first thing that was interesting to me was the suprising lack of BSD ? i like linux and have used it as a desktop machine forever (before becoming a macfanboy) but have always defaulted to FreeBSD for servers.. im not sure what this means and ill do a little netcraft digging tomorrow to see if its a general trend..
Is that a robots.txt in your pocket or are you just ahppy to see me?
This will probably get cleaned up soon, but thats a huuuuuuuge robots.txt [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt]
I have always tried to keep this blog politics-free
but the last Scott Adams posting on the Iranian presidents US visit has to be the best piece i have read in a long long time..
BotNets not just for SPAM any more
The Symantec Security blog has an article titled “Botnets: not just for spamming anymore“. Interestingly we are now starting to see the use of botnets for more than just simple spamming (or simpler DoS attacks).
Its pretty cool (in a twisted sort of way), because this is one of those things we called out a long time ago, predicting that botnets were way under-used as a form of cheap distributed computing. We have been mentioning its potential for effectively minimizing the key-space of session-ids and it looks like its starting to rear its head..