Step-by-step virus disassembly
Over at SkullSecurity they’ve done a great job of a step-by-step disassembly of the Energizer Trojan using IDA. Using a sterile/insight environment, they go through the code to give you an insig ...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
OpenSSL v1 released after 11 years of development
After a long, hard struggle of 11 years, which started with these two entries: 23-Dec-1998: Released OpenSSL 0.9.1c 23-Dec-1998: Official start of the OpenSSL project we are now at the point of “ ...
Afrigator.com down?
No access to afrigator.com, afrigator.biz and blog.afrigator.com – whole system, it seems… and no news on their twitter feed… Just early for Earth Hour at 20.30pm today? It’s r ...
Domain registrations in China – turning .cn to .can’t
I’ve been through the domain name registrations in China, in addition to the full documentation to be submitted to the Chinese authorities in order to not have the .cn account suspended. However ...
MySQL Database optimization
Just to have them all in one place, and for posterity’s sake, I’ve pulled together some points on how to optimise your MySQL programming. First off, the result of Session 1 of MySQL Camp 1 ...
Google.cn relocated to Hong Kong
Well, as I said in the previous posting on this matter, Google decided to ‘close’ operations in China – to relocate to Hong Kong as www.google.com.hk. In addition, there is no self-c ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Document Indexing and Indexer issues (SOLVED)
Argh. Well, it’s really not quite out of the box, at least on Ubutu Server 9.10 (after reinstallations required after initial failures…), so this is just a selection of the fixes that made ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 reinstallation site startup failure (SOLVED)
OpenOffice.org startup failures, indexing issues and other niggles forced me to re-install KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition) more than once durin ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 – OpenOffice startup script (SOLVED)
Having repeatedly received the error that OpenOffice.org is not running on the standard installation of KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), furthe ...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS now in beta
Ubuntu 10.04 went beta yesterday afternoon, with downloads at http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/, otherwise from the download mirrors. Lucid Lynx, as it’s called, enjoys LTS support (ie 5 years ...
Pretty Loaded…
From the agency that put together the retrospective for Tim Burton (of Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride — visit his site for a seriously cool interface!) at the Museum of Modern Art, as w ...
Windows 2008 RC1 Service Pack, Windows 7 SP comes early
Microsoft today announced service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users’ hands. There’s no concr ...
Security Summit 2010
Moxie Marlinspike will be at the Security Summit 2010 this year at the Sandton Convention Centre – well, at least he’s on the lineup – and should give some insights; Jeremiah Grosman ...
Internet Explorer 9 will not support XP
While so many corporates are still locked into a Windows XP / IE6 platform, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) looms on the horizon, “now even more compliant” (don’t you just love that: R ...
Google will shut down Chinese google.cn
Google is going to shut down google.cn with a likelyhood some webhosts give as their uptime guarantee. With a reported 99.9% certainty, google.cn is going to power down, not due to business, but, as E ...
Search-engine experiment reaches 100th post
And many more will follow, cos this is quite fun! 🙂 Let’s see how the social spidering kicks in… ...
Cracking passwords fast with rainbow tables on SSD
A Swiss firm, Objectif Sécurité, makers of Ophcrack_Office (for Word and Excel files) and Ophcrack Open Source (over at sourceforge.net), has tweaked their application to crack XP passwords with up to ...
jQuery UI new 1.8 FINAL release imminent
So twelve days after jQuery UI 1.8RC3 was released, which followed the release of the previous release candidate – 1.8RC2 after less than 2 weeks, the release of the final jQuery UI 1.8 is only ...
Bhisho’s Health Department – Unplugged
News from the Eastern Cape: Bhisho’s Health Department headquarters have had their telephone lines cut thanks to the department’s unpaid Telkom bill of more than R23 million This is what the Daily Dis ...
The upsides of distributed companies
Over at toni.org, Toni Schneider gives some points about the values of Distributed Companies – including easier hiring, better communications, better office environments and more ‘social&# ...