Static in the EtherUnix, Information Security & Systems AdministrationLayer 2 security is still important- June 4, 2008 Richard Bejtlich posted a few days ago about the &8216;hack&8217; on the Metasploit webserver as reported by SunBelt. What is interesting is that the actual website wasnt compromised, but rather another system on the same VLAN at the hosting provider which then performed some ARP spoofing magic against the gateway, in effect redirecting traffic to ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/44 New Hilbert Release- June 4, 2008 With Nick now in Grahamstown, development on the Hilbert Curve application has progressed well. Version 4.05 has been released around a month after the 2.05 edition previously mentioned, which is heading much closer towards completion. The unix build scripts still need to be integrated, but there has been much improvement. The most ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/37 BibTeX frequency table- June 4, 2008 Something I usually ask my students to do us to draw up a frequency table of their use of references in their Theses. This is useful to see if one is over-citing particular sources, or disregarding sources that are more significant. Up until now most have gone the paper and pencil route. Fred ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/36 A web 2.0 we go- June 2, 2008 Having a quiet evening at home is a fairly rare occurrence, but tonight it happened. Consequently I got so spent some quality time exploring the wealth of plugins available for Wordpress. After some picking and choosing Ive added a couple, and as the title sugegsts they are &8220;web 2.0&8243; - for varing definitions of the ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/31 Jabref Export Filters- June 2, 2008 Jabref ships with a rather useful HTML export feature, which produces some rather nice output for publishing a somewhat interactive version of your .bib files online, or even as an electronic appendix to a thesis. Mark Schenk has proviced some nice eexamples of other styles of export that one can use. Using these in conjunction ...http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/30 |