Microsoft published a nice tool named EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) whose purpose is to check and enforce the memory security policies such as ALSR and DEP. It shows and allows to configure the global settings, but also, and this is the most interesting part, indicated for each process running if it supports those security [...]
What you need: a good earing smartmontools Indeed, so far, I haven’t found anything better than launching a process making a lot of disk activity. This command just do it: The “short” test will give you a few minutes to carefully listen and select the right disk. Well, it sure is pretty primitive! But do [...]
The other day I stumbed upon a weired piece of software on howtoforge.com : dns-add (code on sourceforge.net). Actually, the purpose of dns-add was very intriguing : update your DNS in one command ! The output should look like this: Who would need it these days where all distros include tools and script to update [...]
You may have noticed that the site had a lot of downtimes recently. I was having a daily kernel panic and weired file system corruptions, which I first tought were coming from the successive crashes and reboots. However, while it happened again and again and I could not find any good reason for that, I [...]
So there are some news from the front of OpenSSL CVE-2009-3555 (see this and this for the history). Now the latest version of Apache mod_ssl (2.2) embeds an option to reactivate old way client renegociation : Check the official doc for more details. With this option activated, you can now safely upgrade openSSL and mod_ssl [...]
Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help. I will still take a few days of thoughts, [...]
No, it is not a computer this time. And yes, it is off topic, but I wanted to thank a Japanese friend for his gift and, at the same time, promote his work : He owns a small company in Hokkaido producing a number of wood toys. He is an artist and designs them, which [...]
And Google is making so much noise about that ? If what is said is true, it nothing else but a trojan. A good one, but nothing new otherwise. I would also say that the most targeted company was Microsoft. After all, it was an Internet Explorer 0-days breach that was exploited. Once the computer [...]
