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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hurray!! Even Microsoft wants users to upgrade from IE6 to something modern ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline. There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h2 ...
I’m sure you’ve done it already, but WordPress 3.0.1 (a maintenance release) is out since Friday and you should have upgraded (and updated the database) already by downloading the 3.0.1 ve ...
Remember to upgrade your Kindle from Amazon – there’s a new firmware upgrade available, taking the system to version 2.5.2 (24.3MB – you may want to transfer via USB…) ...
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 s ...
From Adobe‘s advisory: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll comp ...
To enable symlinks in Samba for filesharing across platforms inWindows, modify /etc/smb/samba.conf and add in the [global] section: follow symlinks = yes unix extensions = no There has been some discu ...
That’s it – I’m out – got to wait for the 14 days now before the account is deleted from Facebook. As promised, I was asked whether I’m really sure that I want to delete ...
Assuming you don’t have any link shares in place (Digg, OpenID, MySpace etc), the process should be quite simple: Go direct: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account (yo ...
Only a few days to go before the end of my use of Facebook — 31 May 2010. I’ve written about it before. The New York Times has written about it. With security loopholes that allow any (non ...
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that wa ...
Sven Welzel
May 14, 2010
bash, code, conferences, javascript, linux, mysql, open source software, php, security, synch.cc, sysadmin, windows
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