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Category Archives: Technology
My actual interview article at Network World
Ok, here is the actual interview that I had with Network World. I really like how it came out, I think Phil Hochmuth did an excellent job taking what I had said and presenting it to the reader. This is … Continue reading
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Cool, I’m quoted in Network World, uncool, it’s got a small error…
A pretty good article about the upcoming LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World Conference and expo came out in the online magazine Network World today. I was even quoted in it at the bottom of the second page. It was an interesting interview, and … Continue reading
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Wireless Drivers provide a backdoor to hack your computer..
Interesting article, and I would love to see this presentation at the BlackHat conference. Jon Ellch and David Myanor will be showing off how they can hijack a MacBook laptop in about 60 seconds using vulnerabilities in the wireless card … Continue reading
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Locking down Mac OS X
Ok, I recently have been given the opportunity to play around with a new MacBook Pro 15″ laptop (Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger). So far I’m impressed, clean easy to use user interface with a nice Unix/BSD system underneath. … Continue reading
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How to redirect a default WordPress URL
Ok, I was trying to help a friend who is replacing WordPress with another system and needed to redirect the WordPress URLs for old posts to the new URL and the new posts. Doesn’t seem like that would be too … Continue reading
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Microsoft Security Patches en mass…
Well, Microsoft patch tuesday has delivered a whole host of critical security patches to MS Windows, Office, Explorer, and others. Several of these are actively exploited and can lead to some stranger in a far away land running whatever software … Continue reading
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Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird update time again…
Well, more security bugs in the Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird batch of programs. There are about 5 bugs that could allow an evil website to run a program on your computer with your user permissions. Not actively exploited at the moment, … Continue reading
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Spammers get scammed :-)
Ok first good story I’ve heard about spammers, though it’s not all good news. Apparently there are some card scammers that use stolen credit card numbers to buy goods and get paid by spammers and then run with the goods … Continue reading
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MS Word and Yahoo Messenger Worms/Trojans
Ok, two nasty little vulnerabilities people should be aware of have popped up. First, late last week, a security hole in MS Word was revealed and a corresponding trojan virus that takes advantage of it. More information can be found … Continue reading
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Fedora Core 5 Linux install on Sharp MM20
Well, I finally got around to posting up my instructions for installing FC5 on a sharp MM20 laptop. This is definitely one of the best versions yet to run on this laptop. It’s not perfect yet, as suspend modes aren’t … Continue reading
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