Static in the EtherUnix, Information Security & Systems AdministrationFirefox 3.0, crashes and bandwidth overload- June 17, 2008 Some two and a half hours into the FF3.0 download campaign, and the toll is beginning to show.spreadfirefox.com seems to be refusing connections. While individual mirror sites seem up, it looks like the counts are going via some redirector script. getfirefox.com is however working fine. The impact its having on mirrors seems to be quite intense. ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/57 FireFox 3.0 Launch day & record Attempt- June 17, 2008 Today is the official launch of the Firefox 3.0 Browser. the 24 Hour period form June 17th to June 18th will be a a record attempt in order to get into the Guinness book of Records, for the most software downloads in a day. The day apparently starts on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/53 VizSec 2007 proceedings out- June 16, 2008 The Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec 2007) are finally available. Springer Has the book available for order at a princely 60 Euros. Amazon has the book listed but not yet available for shipping , but one can pre-order. For those interested, Springer has a flyer and table ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/54 DAVIX live CD looking for Beta Testers- June 15, 2008 DAVIX is the upcoming live CD for data analysis and visualization, which will be released at BlackhatDEFCON in Las Vegas this summer, with another talk at VizSec 2008. From the VizSec.org announcement: Jan Monsch and Raffael Marty and I have prepared the second beta version of DAVIX. And are now seeking for beta testers that ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/55 Visualizing Viruses- June 12, 2008 Wired has a article on the Artwork done by MIT Media Lab&8217;s grad student Alex Dragulescu. Working under contract to MessageLabs he has produced a number number of pictures, showing images of Mydoom, Ghost Keylogger and other bits of Malware. While all quite pretty there seems to be no detail of how they ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/51 RSS feeds have moved- June 10, 2008 Further to my previous post about using mod_rewrite to direct my old feed URLs to the right place, its probably time to notify people who read them in aggregators that the URI has changed, since the aggregators (particularly the web based ones hide the redirect, even tho its a 301). To the: 1 subscribers using Google ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/49 Another RFC to BibTeX script- June 9, 2008 Following form my earlier post regarding a pre-compiled bibTeX database of all Internet RFCs, I discovered while browsing the CTAN archives that Richard Mortier wrote a awk script back in 2000 while at Cambridge Computing Lab, that does something similar. For purists who don&8217;t trust this new fangled XML and XSLT stuff its ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/45 Happy 30th 8086 Father of the x86 architecture- June 7, 2008 Thirty years ago today (8 June 1978) , Intel unleashed the 8086 16-bit CPU on the world, some four years after the debut of the 8080 which powered the Altair computer (something I wish I could find to own!). Computer world has a really nice writeup on the history and development of ver the last ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/48 Wordpress and dealing with incoming hacks- June 7, 2008 The other day morning stated out with a conversation with darb that went as follows: DARB: so&8230;wordpress hey BVI: I got over writing my own code BVI: now I&8217;m waiting for my blog to be 0wn3d DARB: you know wordpress is the equivalent of an 8ft tall ogre that stands outside looking pretty, smashes tables when he tries to ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/46 Migrating URLs with apache and mod_rewrite- June 6, 2008 Having now migrated to Wordpress from my own very customised version of phpBloxsom, which ran the previous incarnation of this blog, Ive been left with the issue of dealing with all the sites pulling my RSS feeds. With the change of software has come a change of url for the location of the feeds. Apache&8217;s ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/47 |