Ramblings & ephemera
From Aaron Margosis’ “Why you shouldn’t run as admin…” (17 June 2004):
But if you’re running as admin [on Windows], an exploit can:
install kernel-mode rootkits and/or keyloggers (which can be close to impossible to detect)
install and start services
install ActiveX controls, including IE and shell add-ins (common with spyware and adware)
access data belonging to other users
cause code [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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As some of you may have heard, Google has announced its own web browser, Chrome. It’s releasing the Windows version today, with Mac & Linux versions to follow.
To educate people about the new browser & its goals, they release a 38 pg comic book drawn by the brilliant Scott McCloud. It’s a really good read, [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Windows
ipconfig /flushdns
Mac OS X
dscacheutil -fluchcache
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Synchronizing Outlook & Google Apps
Retrieve CD Key from Windows 95 or NT
Remove EXIF data from JPEGs
Who runs botnets?
What bots do and how they work
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Plaxo
http://www.plaxo.com
(web-based)
OggSync
http://oggsync.com
ScheduleWorld
http://www.scheduleworld.com
iCal4OL
http://ical.gutentag.ch
Google Calendar Sync
https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
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Retrieve CD Key from Windows 95 or NT
Flush your DNS cache
Ubuntu Edgy changes to fstab
Remove EXIF data from JPEGs
I for one welcome our new OS overlords: Google Chrome
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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I recently posted this to my local Linux Users Group mailing list:
Thought y’all would find this interesting - from http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/05/26/fundraising_excel/index.html:
“A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not be processed by popular basic [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Start | Settings | Control Panel | System
Under Registered to, you’ll see user name & a 20-digit number. Digits 6 through 15 make up the CD key.
If you’re using an OEM version, the entire number is the CD key.
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Synchronizing Outlook & Google Apps
Flush your DNS cache
Ubuntu Edgy changes to fstab
Remove EXIF data from JPEGs
Zombies [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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From Scott M. Fulton, III’s “Allchin Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus” (BetaNews: 9 November 2006):
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ryan Naraine’s “‘Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders” (eWeek: 16 November 2006):
The recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers.
Internet security researchers and law enforcement authorities have traced the operation to [...]
Posted on December 10th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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On Saturday 17 April 2004, I received the following email from someone I didn’t know:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure who you are but our security detected a Netsky virus in an
> email that you sent. Whether a personal message or a spam, please make
> attention to the fact that you are spreading viruses and [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Saw this in an email sig:
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Mac OS X: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Linux: Are you coming or what?
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My reply to those “You sent a virus to me!” emails
I for one welcome our new OS overlords: Google Chrome
Virtual-machine based rootkits
Unpatched Linux, 3 months; unpatched Windows, 20 [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ryan Naraine’s “Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible” (eWeek: 4 April 2006):
In a rare discussion about the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.
“When [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul Graham’s “Hiring is Obsolete” (May 2005):
Buying startups also solves another problem afflicting big companies: they can’t do product development. Big companies are good at extracting the value from existing products, but bad at creating new ones.
Why? It’s worth studying this phenomenon in detail, because this is the raison d’etre of startups.
To start with, [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul Graham’s “Hiring is Obsolete” (May 2005):
For example, the stated purpose of Powerpoint is to present ideas. Its real role is to overcome people’s fear of public speaking. It allows you to give an impressive-looking talk about nothing, and it causes the audience to sit in a dark room looking at slides, instead of [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Joel Spolsky’s “Biculturalism” (Joel on Software: 14 December 2003):
What are the cultural differences between Unix and Windows programmers? There are many details and subtleties, but for the most part it comes down to one thing: Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Microsoft’s BitLocker” (Crypto-Gram Newsletter: 15 May 2006):
BitLocker is not a DRM system. However, it is straightforward to turn it into a DRM system. Simply give programs the ability to require that files be stored only on BitLocker-enabled drives, and then only be transferable to other BitLocker-enabled drives. How easy this would be [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ryan Naraine’s “Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack Under Way” (eWeek: 16 June 2006):
Microsoft June 15 confirmed that a new, undocumented flaw in its widely used Excel spreadsheet program was being used in an attack against an unnamed target.
The company’s warning comes less than a month after a code-execution hole in Microsoft Word was exploited [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Peter Seebach’s Standards and specs: Not by UNIX alone (IBM developerWorks: 8 March 2006):
In the past 20 years, developers for “the same” desktop platform (”whatever Microsoft ships”) have been told that the API to target is (in this order):
* DOS
* Win16
* OS/2
* Win32
* WinNT
* WinXP
* and most recently .NET.
Of course, that list is from [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From How Microsoft played the patent card, and failed (The Register: 23 December 2004):
… the joint lead on the Samba project, Jeremy Allison …: “Microsoft has bought off and paid off every competitor it has, except open source. Every single player they could buy out, they did. That leaves Real, and FOSS. And they can’t [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Greg Brooks’s more on DIY phishing kits hit the Net (Interesting People: 21 August 2004):
Turn on Kazaa or your p2p app of choice and search for .mny files — the data stores for Microsoft Money.
Most of these files won’t be password protected — just download, open and you’ve got a trove of personal financial [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From David HM Spector’s Unfinished Business Part 2: Closing the Circle (LinuxDevCenter: 7 July 2003):
… an integrated enterprise directory service does give network managers a much greater ability to manage large-scale networks and resources from almost every perspective.
Unlike most UNIX systems, Windows environments are homogeneous. There are three modes of operation in terms of user [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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