I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Due to some rather depressing news on the home front, I was only able to attend Saturday’s track and the Event Dinner. Everything was awesome as usual. I was even surprised to learn new things in the Advanced Pattern Matching [...]
Just a little comic to remind ourselves what we’re giving away for “Security.” This is not what our founding fathers had in mind. I’m disappointed in the US Government and it’s people.
I had the privilege of speaking at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco this year. It was a lot of fun and I certainly enjoyed the discussions with folks after my talk. My talk was on “Network Introspection with Open Source Tools” and I threatened to post updates on my progress here.
I’ve been working [...]
I saw a posting recently by someone who described the books that changed their life. In an era of complete and total connection to TV, Internet, and Radio I thought the idea was excellent. If you haven’t been reading books, I highly recommend that you take some time and head down to your [...]
If you’ve noticed (probably not), recently the server has been unreachable. A few weeks back this was due to a bad hard drive. I finally transferred everything over to the new hard drive and got the sites back up and running thanks to a few friends and The Planet.
Then this weekend, the data [...]
I’ve attended 4 Perl Conferences in the past 2 years. This year’s Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is the first that I’ve presented at. My talk was titled Security through Detection, Prevention, and Introspection. I have slides available.
I originally wanted to present a bunch of code, but I couldn’t really find a way to make the code [...]
In our first installment, we looked at some solutions to provide a hospitable environment for proxy evasion. Today, we’ll dig deep into how to do this with my favorite protocol of all time, SSH.
OpenSSH is a glorious implementation of a critical network protocol. Most networks have disabled and banned the use of [...]
I love cfengine. There are tons of resources out there for managing all kinds of common and uncommon system administration tasks. Rather than regurgitate all that information I wanted to share how I worked around what has been noted as a short coming of cfengine, clients copying information back to the master server.
Gizmodo is stepping up to declare March, Boycott the RIAA Month.
This needs to happen. Justice must be swift and unrelenting. Back when the RIAA conned Metallica to lead the charge against Napster, they killed a significant portion of the internet. I’d go as far as to blame them for being the catalyst [...]
The holidays are always a lot of fun. I ran out of time to do some things like keeping this blog updated. There’s been a ton of stuff in the news relevant to IT security. I’m not going to recap.
I’ll be continuing my Proxy Evasion series as soon as I get a [...]