Haroon Meer
… Scrapy…
(an open source web crawling and screen scraping framework written in Python..)
i promised deels i wld stay off the interwebs for a few days, which means my quick stops are filling up my bookmarks list..
This looks worth checking out.. http://dev.scrapy.org/
/mh
Ted Speaker List up and Free hackin9
(aka 2 completely unrelated topics)
You can grab a free copy of the Hackin9 magazine [here] And you can view the speakers list for Ted09 [here]… /mh
Microsoft BlueHat, Videos Posted
Microsoft has posted selected videos of the latest BlueHat talks [here]. It’s pretty cool that they are now releasing these videos to the planet..
You get to see Matt Miller (skape), Scott Charney and even za’s very own Roelof Temmingh.
SensePost’ers can grab copies of the talks [here]
/mh
Linux on iPhone..
While i normally find “Linux ported to run on your [nintendo/toaster/foo] stories only academically interesting, i think the thought of Linux running on 1st Gen, 2nd Gen iPhones (and iPod Touch) a particularly awesome thought.
a) it suddenly means all sorts of possibilities for cute intelligent devices all over the house (with cool sensors – once they can be acessed)
b) it means possibly really cheap, really portable *nix (really pretty) in your pocket
South Africa’s own IT Security “pubcast”
Our good friend Anthony Olivier has launched his “IT Security Pubcast“. So far 2 episodes are online, with episode #2 including our very own, ever quotable Charl van der Walt.
Check it out..
Wired Article on DNSGate..
Wired magazine has covered the DNSGate saga with full dramatic details like: “never, ever repeat what you just told me over a cell phone“.
Its a quick read, and worth it for the classic line: “The DNS community had kept the secret for months. The computer security community couldn’t keep it 12 days”
“Unix Terrorist” in trouble over TJX ?
Anyone who was around for Defcon-10 will have an opinion on the infamous Gobbles-Silvio-UnixTerrorist talk in which mail spools where published and everyone was slammed [1]
According to mumble on the Interwebs (and a comment from RiskyBusiness) it appears as if the Stephen Watt who allegedly “modified and provided a “sniffer” program used by the conspirators to monitor and capture the data crossing corporate computer networks” == Unix Terrorist..
It’s not clear the extent of Watts involvment with the breakin, but it does send a cold shiver down the spine of anyone who puts out tools / software..
Preflighting Application Error (0xE800000*) on iPhones
For those writing apps for the iPhone, you have a good chance of bumping into the highly annoying preflighting application error:
Ralf Rottmann of [24100.net] has a [pretty comprehensive post on how to fix this] (the problem resides in xcode not corerctly tagging the applications BundleID)
HITB08 Slides available..
Slides from the latest Hack in the Box conference [are available] [SensePost slides are listed as owing / not there yet]
SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]
You know you are getting old..
When you blog a link to poetry:
[The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked up from a talk by Tim Oreilly during his [recent talk] where he chided the audience for focusing on trivial banalities while leaving bigger problems un challenged. A subsequent speaker picked up the theme, and likened it to abandoning NASA to work on DisneyLand.
I think the sentiment is grand, and the poem is inspiring.. and in particular the following lines, are probably going to keep me up nights for a while: