Zombie postings with Captcha automation
Just got another comment posting request relating to a version 5.0 release of automated forum/blog spamming software which is guaranteed to get your customers ‘closer to your products’ by ...
Author Archives: Sven Welzel
Flash Exploit Protection
The folks over at www.foregroundsecurity.com have discovered (another) Flash exploit that makes use of a same-origin policy interpretatino malformation in the application. This vulnerability allows th ...
And we’re on 2.8.6
Another quick upgrade to make it safe — 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. Not really pertinent here but good to ...
Virus Scanner Comparison
They ran a comparison of virus removal software in Oct ’09. Full results are here. Question is, why not compare latest versions throughout? Their methodology (a “work in progress”) s ...
Cloud Computing – on Crack
There are a range of ways that cloud computing can be used to leverage the power of a range of machine to achieve cheaply what you wouldn’t necessarily invest physically in. And to crack PGP or ...
Mobile Payments 2009 at The Forum, The Campus, Bryanston
And the light dims as the presentations are to start – two days of presentations on mobile payments and payment mechanisms. Featuring Paul Stemmet from MXit, Aletha Ling from Fundamo, Adrian Ver ...
Serving video off the cloud
The website for Love never Dies features three videos, one of the Coney Island Waltz, and the other of the press release of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. However, the video, run via the jquery p ...
And we’re on 2.8.5 – the hardened version
…on all sites. Hurrah! But you knew that already, as it’s been out since 10/20/09… ...
Postfix maximum individual mail size and mailbox size
If you’re getting the "5.3.4 Messag exceeds fixed limit” error, check on the default vs set values in your /etc/postfix/main.cf using postconf -d (for the default) and postconf -n (for the ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04
status.twitter.com says nooooooothing about it, but links are being dropped by #twitter… ho hum… # #Twitter seems to be timing out from Texan servers' connections – what's up ...
SCRUM – Project Management by any other name?
YouTube was jumpy, so I post it here… This looks very familiar, just terminology at the end of the day…but you knew that already. Thoughts and comments welcome… [flashvideo filename= ...
A note on WordPress security…
There’s a note on why to keep patching – How To Keep WordPress Secure over at the WordPress dev blog – definately worth a read. Good sense. ...
What not to take while driving…
Source Rory => unknown (otherwise I’d cite it…) What not to take while driving — was man am besten beim Autofahren nicht einnehmen sollte 🙂 What not to take while driving ...
RDP redirection via Putty (Linux Server) for Windows Remote Desktop
Tunneling via Putty is quite well documented. In Putty (the link points to the lastest version), create a new session. In the SSH section, make sure compression is enabled (for SSH v2 – you shou ...
Trac and remote SVN servers
Do the SVN server Trac relates to have to reside on the same as the Trac installation? At present, alas it seems so. (If you’re new to Trac and need a one-stop-shop of commands, look here.) http ...
OpenVPN on Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
Once and for all (as I keep forgetting): modify the actual ovpn file by adding the following: route-method exe route-delay 2 Use openvpn-2.1_rc19 Make sure you install as Administrator And that’ ...
.NET on the iPhone
Did you know? You can now code using the .NET framework on the iPhone – no more specific need for the “Apple C” thanks to Novell’s MonoTouch. ...
Google Lab’s FastFlip – Hyperlinked Slideshow?
Google Labs launched FastFlip – a good example is the “Centre for Investigative Reporting” site. So you can flip between pages that are rendered and pre-loaded as graphics (PNGs, avg ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13
Now also on #siliconcape – http://synch.cc is represented! 🙂 # New ClamAV / clamscan / freshclam on old Ubuntu (Feisty or the like) http://r.sven.co.za/u/17 # ...
Wipe all mp3s and avis from the filesystem
So you want to run a script that removes all mp3 and avi files off the filesystem. One way (in bash) as below. Comment, suggestions and feedback are welcome 🙂 Using $EUID to check for root user, and $ ...