September 21, 2008

Black Hat 2008, Las Vegas

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The Black Hat 2008 briefings in Las Vegas, Nevada, held at the Ceasar's Palace, was great as usual. Imagine 5.000 or more IT security te...

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I will be posting a lot more frequent starting today. Been to busy doing other things lately, but now the inspiration is back. I have played...
March 24, 2008

Holidays = Malicious Code

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Since I started monitoring malicious code, there has been one very obvious trend.  After a long holiday break, such as Christmas, Easter or ...

Archos 605 WiFi

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Archos is a fine piece of mediaplayer , which runs on a customized linux kernel. Perfect for use , when you don't want to w...
December 10, 2007

Christmas time, code time?

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The longed for Christmas break is seeing the horizon. If you would have asked me 7 years ago, I would have told you, I would work even harde...

Live CD, DVD on USB sticks

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Using Live CD's and DVD's is a often a nice way to test out new Linux distributions. No need to install, and usually, the kernel sup...
October 9, 2007

3g Huawei on a MacBook Pro

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Just wanted recommend you guys that have access to 3g technology, to try out the 3g card from Huawei. I have used it for a few months now, a...
August 15, 2007

Back from Black Hat Briefings 2007

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Came back from a sunny and hot as .... Las Vegas. We spent 10 days in the desert this year too. Black Hat was great this year, as last year,...
June 28, 2007

Black Hat Briefings 2007 Las Vegas

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Ah, less than a month left to Black Hat briefings in Las Vegas ( Hotel Caesar's Palace, they've got a nice swimming pool too, hehe )...
June 20, 2007

Mac OS X Leopard release

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According to www.apple.com , the release date for their new upgraded Mac OS X is set to October. It sure looks promising, featuring over +30...
June 14, 2007

Take a Break, play some poker at PokerStars from your Linux desktop

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Or, should I say, where you can use your favorite OS Linux or Mac OS without having to run a vmware installation of Windows. Take a break fr...

Linux poker site support

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On the Ongame ( Pokerooom, Hollywood Poker, Bet24 etc ) network, you can use your firefox browser and the java ( the client is run as an jav...
April 25, 2007

Earths unknown sibling? Greetings 581 c!

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Completely off topic, but this could be the discovery of the millennium. As I am a huge fan of cosmos, I was very excited to hear about a si...
March 10, 2007

GPS - Bluetooth and Linux

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Today I will probably try and find out how well a GPS receiver works under Linux, and Bluetooth. First update will most likely be available ...
February 4, 2007

Minix 3

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In case anyone has missed it, Minix 3 is out. An extremely small OS with a kernel mode code below 4k lines of code. The goal with Minix 3 i...
January 17, 2007

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2007

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Oracle has released a set of critical patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. (January 2007) http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/...
January 16, 2007

The Python Language

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Even though I am a fan of writing my scripts in Perl (for sys admin tasks etc), I believe I will have to bow and admit that Python is an ex...
January 15, 2007

Excellent ssh brute force attack blocker DenyHosts

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The author behind Denyhosts has written an excellent tool in Python to protect your ssh server from brute force attacks. Annoying ssh attack...
January 12, 2007

Playing mp3 files on a Linux system

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Due to patent issues, many of the Linux distributions does not support mp3 files out of the box. This is old news, but if you want to suppor...

Three Linux Modules Commands

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Sometimes, you need to load some sort of support to your Linux kernel. Instead of having to compile every time you want to add or remove som...
January 11, 2007

More advanced Unix Hacks

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I will be posting some more non basic Unix and Linux hacks here soon. This blog was created to give all new to Unix or Linux some help on th...

Apple iPhone sees the world

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Apple is releasing it's new master piece, the Apple iPhone. iPhone is combining three products to become on revolutionary mobile phone. ...

Sense About Science

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This is just a great site about Science. If you don't know what to believe, go to Sense About Science and have the correct answers to yo...
January 9, 2007

Xbox 360 Hacked to run Linux?

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The PPC powered Xbox 360 has supposedly been cracked by Anonymous to run Linux as the Operating System of choice. I can not verify that this...
January 8, 2007

XGL Demo and howto's

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Nice demonstration of Kubuntu running XGL. Xgl is an X server architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their Ope...

Divx Xvid Player

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Just a recommendation. You guys that long for a descent Divx Xvid player that's worth the money, check out Phillips Divx Certified DVD p...

Instant Messaging in Unix Linux, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and more

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As most Unix or Unix users know, instant messaging has been around for the Unix and Linux desktops for quite some time. But as this blog is ...
December 26, 2006

Christmas 2006 almost over. Back to hacking Unix.

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Soon there will be no more sleeping on the couch stuffed with delicious Christmas food. The kids has gotten their Christmas presents, and th...
December 22, 2006

Playstation 3 and Linux or Mac OS X

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The PlayStation 3, aka PS3 will not only be one heck of a gaming console, it will also support at least three different operating systems. B...
December 15, 2006

Save Earth from asteroid threat

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Considering there is a lot of smart people out there reading blogs, I will post a link to this off topic article. Who knows, maybe you can b...
December 13, 2006

Hacking and coding the night away

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I am a headphone freak, and I use my headphones as much as I can, while working, resting, travelling and sleeping. They have to be big and c...
December 12, 2006

Enhancing security on Linux and Unix systems.

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Here are some applications and tools that can help you harden and tighten the security on your Linux or Unix box. Examples will follow for e...

Digital Forensic. Unix Linux and Microsoft Windows Books.

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Are you like me, interested in Digital Forensics? What tracks are users leaving while surfing, using their mail clients, watching movies etc...
December 11, 2006

nmap 4.20 released

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The very best network mapping tool is getting even better. This is the latest release of nmap changelog . # Nmap Changelog ($Id: CHANGELO...
December 10, 2006

Discovery sets off at 8:47 p.m. EST

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As a kid, some of us had a dream to become astronauts. Some made it there. For Christer Fuglesang, it took 14 years of hard work and patienc...
December 6, 2006

GnuPG GPG upgrade. Exploitable bug found

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GnuPG, (gpg) the free and open source version of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Used by many Unix and Linux users. GnuPG encrypts messages using...

Some basic Unix Linux network commands. Glossary and Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting or just need a quick refresher on some basic and advanced Unix Linux network related commands? ifconfig - config...

Some basic Unix Linux commands short description

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cd - change the working directory rm - remove files or directories mv ...
December 5, 2006

Simple network scripts

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Changing your network settings can be performed with either the system-config-network command or by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip...

The Fedora Core 6 release

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Fedora Core 6 (Zod) was released in october 2006. This release has some great improvements, like support for Intel-based Macs, install-time ...
November 29, 2006

Configuring Network Red Hat Fedora using a GUI

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The second way is to use the graphical user interface. # system-config-network ( Remember to use su - , or you might get a display error ) L...

Network IP address configuration Red Hat Fedora

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Rebooted your server/workstation, only to notice that your network configuration is gone? To make permanent network entries in Fedora or Red...
November 27, 2006

Nokia E61

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E61 I bought the E61 which is a piece of email queen 3 months ago, after drooling over my friends E61 for over 2 months. Nokia has deliv...
November 21, 2006

Burning CDs in Linux Unix

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Some very basic cd burning commands. Non GUI, just command line. cdrecord - record audio or data Compact Disks or Digital Versatile Disks fr...
November 20, 2006

Hardening your Red Hat or Fedora system

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A few advices about hardening (securing) your Linux or Unix system. In my field of work, I come across a lot of different Unix and Linux sys...
November 19, 2006

Unix Linux Wireless and WPA

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Wi-Fi protected access for you Unix Linux workstation can be a bit tricky the first time you set it up. The setup I use in my example is fro...

Unix Linux or any paperback manuals

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Or any paperback book covering the IT field, is usually heavy and takes a lot of the free space in my backpack. I have tried to use the pdf ...
November 17, 2006

Security Enhanced Linux GUI Frontend

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Just a quicky about SE (Security Enhanced) Linux. SE Linux provides mandantory access control using LSM. (Linux Security Modules. Red Hat an...
November 8, 2006

Oracle TNS connection with tnsnames.ora. Examples

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Installed Oracle XE or 10g? Want to to connect but get error messages like; ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specifie...