Shared Items - 17/03/2010

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March 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

So what can you do with 32 Million Passwords...

So I have a piece of coursework for a CS module I’m taking at Queen’s University Belfast and one of the focal points of it is the recent RockYou! SQL-injection breach that released 32million passwords into the internet, and I thought I’d have a closer look at that list. I ‘acquired’ the password list from your regular neighbourhood tracker, and thought I could walk through the process of getting a probability-sorted password dictionary. ...

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

Wireshark Remote Capturing Google Code University - New Content Added! Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs New OK Go’s Music Video Features Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

Wireshark Remote Capturing Google Code University - New Content Added! Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs New OK Go’s Music Video Features Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Any Port in a Storm

While working on an IDS Solution for a client, I came across Untangle, and I loved it so much that I pulled out an old box and loaded it up as my office firewall. One thing that is lacking, from my perspective (at least in the ‘free’ edition) is the firewall interface; Untangle uses an IpTables based firewall, but doesn’t replicate the usual INPUT FOWARD OUTPUT rulebase. I think that in 90% of usecases for Untangle, this isnt a problem, but I found it a little bit alien to have portfowarding hidden in the Networking config pane, and firewall separatly. ...

March 6, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/03/2010

Recovering Data From Noise I’m definitly going to be lookin into this (and yes I’m prepared for the headache-inducing math it will accrue) cus I have an idea about an RF implementation… A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever Design Your Own Wordpress Theme Easily With Constructor

March 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/02/2010

Super Happy Dev Castle – SHDC #0 This was a brilliant event, I just wish I had planned ahead to have a project to work on ! Install Multiple Linux Distributions Via PXE (The Easy Way) This is YAPIWD, yet another project i want to (or wont) do… Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases] I never got into google wave that much but i think i may have to revisit it after reading this article! ...

February 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Are we on the brink of War?

Recent events in the cyber-security world have got me feeling paranoid. Between Estonia, Georgia, and the ever-increasing focus on Chinese cyber-political-warfare, geo-political entities are starting to realise that the whole ’lets stockpile enough weapons to blow up the world enough times for the number to be rendered pointless’ may not have been the best plan. China has caught everyone off-guard with its recent, albeit ‘hush hush’, displays of force (while not entirely getting off scott-free), and we should probably be alot more afraid of a cyber war than of flaming pants or security-crossed lovers. ...

January 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Peter Mandelson... TV Producer, Spin-doctor, Politician, Tosser

For a man who’s title is currently Baron Mandelson, _of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham, _First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council, educated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and is hotly tipped to become a major part of the Lisbon-Treaty-generated-unelected-cou-detat-european-super-parliment, you’d think the power-addicted, peace-process screwing, ‘shreud loaning’ rat would leave well enough alone. ...

November 25, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Save The Internet

Currently, this is a major American congressional argument, and hasn’t really come up publicly in Europe (outside of Scandinavia , but Net Neutrality is going to be one of those issues that if people aren’t made aware of it, the legislation removing it will sweep over all of us. Imagine what would have happened if in 1998, ISP’s had throttled the traffic going to a little rack in Stanford University that would late take over the internet as the great distributor of information. Imagine if Google couldn’t pay the ’top-tier access fee’ and had simply died. ...

November 2, 2009 · Andrew Bolster