Edward Bjarte Fjellskål contacted me to let me know about a new program he, Kacper Wysocki and Jan Henning Thorsen made, called Prads. Prads is a fingerprinting scanner, coded in Perl. I am fond of this kind of tool, so I enjoyed checking it out. Prads operates differently from Nmap or SinFP that I already [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2009
IOS : Configuration buffer full, can’t add command
This error message suddenly showed up on one of my router when I tried to save its running configuration. service compress-config allowed me to workaround this buffer problem : router#wr mem Building configuration… % Warning: Saving this config to nvram may corrupt any network management or security files stored at the end of nvram. Continue? [...]
Windows 7 UAC security design flaw
Video of a dummy vulnerability on Windows 7 . More info there. It is incredible that Microsoft invests so much money in its security and that there are still such a bad security design for programs that in no way should be granted any administrator access (calc.exe or notepad.exe). Also, I can’t imagine that no [...]
SHA-1 vulnerable : consider SHA-2
Not long after md5, the computation progress has made another victim. Last week, it was made public that the SHA-1 hash function should be now considered vulnerable. The discovery bring up that the computation to create a collision hash has been dramaticaly reduced. As a consequence, the SHA-1 function can’t warranty anymore the uniquity – [...]
Microphone issue with openSUSE 11.1
Nice post that also solved my microphone issue with openSUSE 11.1 and Pulseaudio. Now every thing works well with Skype.
