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Y2k7 – Daylight Savings Time

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Beginning on the second Sunday of March, being this March 11, 2007, Daylight Savings Time (DST) will begin. Yup, that’s right – 3 weeks earlier then what used to be the beginning of DST. And personally, I don’t think this change has gotten nearly the attention is should. While for most people daily life won’t [...]


(non)Trusted Computing

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Trusted Computing (TC) essentially means that “the computer can be trusted by its designers and other software writers not to run unauthorized programs.” Sounds good, doesn’t it? Trusted computing would work to halt virus, worms and other malicious programs from copying or destroying the integrity of your data. But let’s read that definition again, with [...]


HOW TO: SSH Tunneling

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Have you ever been concerned about accessing the web when you’re out at a public wifi hotspot or at a seminar or conference (especially a security-based one)? People could be sniffing the air (or even the wire) looking for interesting traffic or just to mess with people. How about simply setting up an SSH tunnel [...]


Windows System Analysis

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I read an entry by Ed Skoudis yesterday on the SANS Handler’s diary that was was pretty basic but interesting. He talks about using the built-in Windows tool “netstat” to provide some forensic and diagnostic information for various analysis needs — mainly things like incident handling, vulnerability assessment, malware analysis, etc.


PHP Date Stamp

Monday, November 13th, 2006

While creating new pages on my site lately, I found that I wanted to add a datestamp to some of my “Pages” in WordPress.


Firefox Add-Ons

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

This weekend I took the time to rebuild my primary home PC. I do this every once in a while, because, well…I run Windows. (gasp!)

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