We all know that passwords sucks, that they are the nightmare of all administrators and security guys. So many hacks have been eased because the victims reused the same password everywhere : email account, forum, bank, critical systems… Sadly, so far, there is even not the beginning of a replacement solution. Passwords will be there [...]
Ravan is a new password cracking tool based on Javascript. Wait, what ? Javascript ? Yes, as the author explains, modern Javascript engines are not so slow anymore, and in addition HTML 5 brings a new “feature” with webworkers which allow the browser to run Javascript in the background (e.g without waiting on the page [...]
After I tried to set this blog as my own OpenID provider using the OpenID WordPress plugin, I got a weired error message: “This is an OpenID Server, Nothing to See Here… Move Along” I could not find what as wrong, as all prerequisites were fulfilled, until I find this nice post. The patch there [...]
I release a new version of Netios : 0.71. There are a lot of changes, starting with cosmetics, but the biggest one is the support of multiprocessing. It is now able to process several routers at the same time, so using it on a large list of machines results in a big speed up. A [...]
I just released an alpha release of a little tool that may help network administrators with a large park of Cisco routers or switches : Netios is a little tool aimed to help network administrators to administrate a large number of Cisco network devices. Providing it with a list of equipments, it connects within SSH [...]
