Archive for January, 2007

Jan 28 2007

One Sweet Notebook Mouse (But Not For Me)

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I am on the road quite often, and I am always looking for things that increase my productivity while away from home. A mouse might not seem like a productivity increaser, but comparing it to a trackstick or trackpad, I would say that it does help.

The Logitech VX Revolution has been getting lots of good […]

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Jan 27 2007

Bin Toolkit: January updates

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Here is a list of the January updates for my bin toolkit:
Internet:

Filezilla 2.2.30a - Version update to offical filezilla binaries, no longer using the PortableApps.com version.
LockoutStatus 1.0.0.60 - Useful utility to check account lockout status accross all domain controllers.

Multimedia:

WinSnap 1.1.9 - MWSnap doesn’t always work for me, so I will be trying this screenshot utility […]

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Jan 25 2007

OWASP-SF Meeting

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The SF chapter of OWASP had the first meeting of the year today, and I had alot of fun. There were two presentations, one from Brad Hill of iSec Partners about XML digital signature and encryption, and one from Patrick Stach of Stach & Liu about cryptography. The talks were good, but the upcoming RSA […]

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Jan 23 2007

Google’s Anti-Phishing Blacklist Leaked Passwords

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Finjan had a press release yesterday stating that Google’s anti-phishing blacklist leaks passwords. It seems like Google has already cleaned up the problem, as I can’t find any passwords in the current blacklist found here. Arstechnica, TechCrunch, InfomationWeek, and many others had writeups of this problem.
But what is this blacklist and how did the data […]

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Jan 22 2007

Photowalking /w Thomas Hawk @ Califorina State Railroad Museum

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Yesterday I met up with Thomas Hawk and many others at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Robert Scoble has done a few photowalks featuring Thomas Hawk for his ScobleShow, and this was the first time they announced it so anyone could join in. There were over twenty people that showed up, and […]

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Jan 14 2007

Google’s Safe Browsing built into Firefox 2

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Did you know that Google’s Safe Browsing was built into Firefox 2 by default now? I was sure surprised to find out that it was. I noticed this while performing a web application penetration test, mainly from all the google.com requests every few seconds. Now, I do think its great that technology like this is […]

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