Your mobile number is being sent to web pages
Depending on the mobile network provider you use (MTN doesn’t seem to be affected in ZA at the moment, Vodacom in ZA leaks this information), and device used, your IMEI and MSISDN (mobile number ...
Category Archives: sysadmin
`Shellshock` Bash Patch update – pipe directly to sh to secure your machine
Recently, I made the script to patch your BASH environment available on this site, but that meant a need to copy and paste. Using a user with the appropriate rights, you can now pipe directly using a ...
`Shellshock` bash vulnerability fix and update in case of slow or unavailable repositories
Updated to latest kernel patch bash43-30 You’ve heard of ShellShock, and the bash-exploits that are currently doing the rounds, across platforms, that make use of these bugs (CVE-2014-6271 and t ...
How to block or drop attacker with null route
Quick note to myself, as I keep forgetting the syntax, though it is so easy — to block an incoming connection by null routing or rejecting the connection is as simple as route add -host IP rejec ...
Twitter speed
Repeatedly getting this error on this Twitter.com site: ...
DSL Network speed and connectivity in South Africa – Feb – Apr 2012
It’s been a rocky start to the year of DSL connectivity with EASSY and SEACOM, among the major uplinks from Southern Africa, all were affected by outages. After a network outage between Abu Tala ...
Rsync – copy file differences to third directory
So you have a snapshot of data on one drive, and the current state of data on the second drive. How do you copy the difference between the two drives into a third directory? Rync comes to the rescue h ...
Some quick updates
Time for some housekeeping – WordPress, plugins etc all patched and back to where they should be (taken long enough) — some more updates on PHP, scheduler integration and large data transf ...
[SOLVED] Windows 7 fails after patch installation, hangs, cannot boot in safe mode
Windows 7 won’t boot up, Safe Mode hangs (typically at CLASSPNP.SYS), the System Recovery can’t fix (Bad Patch and AutoFailover errors) and there are no recovery points to revert back to. ...
Delete and clear POSTFIX queue in one line
Oftentimes, you may need to just delete all messages in queue (for example, when your script has gone mad and generated too many messages to handle, once you’ve stopped postfix). It’s quit ...
Microsoft drives to kill off IE6 and get you to upgrade
Hurray!! Even Microsoft wants users to upgrade from IE6 to something modern ...
Three Oh Five – WordPress Upgrade are out
The upgrade to 3.0.5 was resleased yesterday. From the release notes: Two moderate security issues were fixed that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the ...
3G SMTP servers for MTN, Vodacom, CellC etc
On 3G and outgoing mail not sending? Chances are, you need to set the SMTP server specific to your network. Here’s the list that may grow over time: ...
Expire private images to protect privacy on the Internet?
A new product over at x-pire.net (which redirects to x-pire.de) was unveiled in Germany today, with the aim of embedding expiry times and information into images so that they cannot be viewed after a ...
Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.4 – HTML Sanitation bug
From the WordPress Development Blog: Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites ...
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink – WordPress Upgrade
… it’s time to go 0-3, I think — WordPress 3.0.3 is out – but the update is really only applicable to remote publishing-enabled systems… WordPress 3.0.3 is available and ...
AXXESS / Afrihost / IS / MWeb DSL slow-to-no international browsing update
For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so… ...
AXXESS / Afrihost / IS / MWeb DSL slow-to-no international browsing
Seems like there is an upstream cable fault (being investigated) that has caused international browsing from South Africa outward to fail. Pings reveal failing terminations on the entry points into co ...
Stuxnet lessons – and resources
Just a quick grouping of resources relating to Stuxnet resources and analysis after the targeted infections of the frequency converters of the Vaasa, Finland based Vacon (though Vacon publicly denies ...
Proxying all Linux Traffic – set web access for Ubuntu behind a proxy
So that it’s documented… I’m using port 8080 as the default port as the likelyhood of your upstream proxy being on 8080 is high – else, typical proxy ports are, of course, 80, ...