Sunday, August 9, 2009

Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper

Stunnel -- Universal SSL Wrapper

Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.

The Stunnel source code is not a complete product -- you still require a functioning SSL library such as OpenSSL or SSLeay in order to compile stunnel. This means that stunnel can support whatever (and only) that which your SSL library can, without making any changes in the Stunnel code.

The Stunnel source code is available under the GNU General Public License, meaning it is free to use in both commercial and non commercial applications as you see fit, as long as you provide source code (and any modifications) with the software. Your compiled Stunnel binary is 'restricted' by whatever license your chosen SSL library is under, however both OpenSSL and SSLeay are open source and similarly liberal in their licensing.

I need to try this... TCP connections wrapped in SSL...

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Jira, RT, (email-threading) for friends, family, or groups... web2.0 style

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The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit

genius - i love this guy....old article...same story of how one man sticks it where the sun don't shine. a fine example of full disclosure.

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Cracking WPA with video cards, and pyrit

more pyrit goodness - i haven't seen a lot of write-ups re: pyrit pass by, and here's a pretty nice one.... definitely makes you want to go out and buy some video cards (and a good mother board).

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TestDisk - CGSecurity - data recovery software

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

  • Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
  • Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
  • Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
  • Fix FAT tables
  • Rebuild NTFS boot sector
  • Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
  • Fix MFT using MFT mirror
  • Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
  • Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
  • Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

I've always had tremendous success with GetDataBack by http://www.runtime.org, and I just read about this... options are always good :)

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TestDisk - CGSecurity - data recovery software

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

  • Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
  • Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
  • Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
  • Fix FAT tables
  • Rebuild NTFS boot sector
  • Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
  • Fix MFT using MFT mirror
  • Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
  • Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
  • Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

I've always had tremendous success with GetDataBack by http://www.runtime.org, and I just read about this... options are always good :)

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Friday, August 7, 2009

CoffeeGeek - How to Use a Press Pot

simple - easy... I don't know why I haven't used a press pot yet.... I guess I've always liked to make things complicated... but a small amount of perfect coffee makes perfect sense :)

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Bodegas Ateca Atteca Garnacha Old Vines 2007 | Snooth | My Wines | aslezak

Check out this website I found at snooth.com

Delicious - i would drink this again. Purchased off the 90 point scale (yes, I'm a sucker). Perhaps the effect is the placebo effect and I love the way it makes me feel... mellow, relaxed, happy... no, that isn't all wines. As for the characteristics....I'd have to say bold (from my coffee descriptions)...ripe, a bit off balance, and not off-putting (on the finish)....plums...berry-ish....dark, fruit sensations... I enjoyed this out of the bottle the day I purchased it...I didn't need a meal and I could enjoy it with a nice red meat....

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Bodegas Ateca Atteca Garnacha Old Vines 2007 | Snooth | My Wines | aslezak

Check out this website I found at snooth.com

Delicious - i would drink this again. Purchased off the 90 point scale (yes, I'm a sucker). Perhaps the effect is the placebo effect and I love the way it makes me feel... mellow, relaxed, happy... no, that isn't all wines. As for the characteristics....I'd have to say bold (from my coffee descriptions)...ripe, a bit off balance, and not off-putting (on the finish)....plums...berry-ish....dark, fruit sensations... I enjoyed this out of the bottle the day I purchased it...I didn't need a meal and I could enjoy it with a nice red meat....

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

How To Connect To A WPA Wifi Using Command Lines On Debian | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Check out this website I found at howtoforge.com

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its Sunny, 81F in hoboken, time to go outside...

Sit in a park and read some more of "The Cuckoo's Egg"

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just learned about these vsphere features today from the vsphere overview slide...

  • supports DVFS (dynamic voltage frequency slection) and DPM (dynamic power management) via IPMI
  • virtual sas & ide interfaces now supported
  • enable hot add for memory / cpu (has to be enabled while machine is powered off)
  • storage stack performance and scalability - the combination of the new in-guest virtualization-optimized SCSI driver, and the additional - ESX kernel-level storage stack optimizations dramatically improves storage I/O perfomance - I/O intensive applications like DB and exchange servers will now be even more primed for virtualization.
  • iSCSI  stack improvements have been made as well for both software and hardware.  CPU overhead reductions have been significant.
  • Volume Grow + Hot VMDK Extend - vDS - vNetwork Distributed Switch - Private VLANS (PVLANs), virtual distributed uplinks, network vmotion (counters, and port statistics follow VM), bi-directional traffic shaping. Obviously support for 3rd party switch a la nexus 1000V -   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_VLAN
  • VMXNET Generation 3 - MSI/MSI-X support, Receive Side Scaling (Windows 2008), VLAN off-loading
  • from MS doc on RSS: “Today’s systems have an increasing number of CPUs. The ability of the networking protocol stack of the Windows® operating system to scale well on a multi-CPU system is restricted. This restriction is caused by the architecture of the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) in Windows Server® 2003 and earlier versions, which limits receive protocol processing to a single CPU at any one time. Receive-side scaling (RSS) resolves this issue by allowing the network load from a network adapter to be distributed across multiple CPUs.”   http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/ndis_rss.mspx
  • fault tolerance
  • enhanced storage vmotion now with minimized resource consumption + converstion of disk from thick to thin during session.
  • vcenter servers can be inter-connected in loinked mode so you can share roles and licenses across multiple connect vcenter servers
  • view multiple vcenter inventories can be seen from one vcenter client.
  • host profiles can be maintained, deployed (as a golden configuration), and audited
  • vApps - encapsulate multiple application VMs into a single virtual service entity.  Then you can do single power operations, clone, deploy and monitor the whole application.  You can export this profile as an OVF file.
  • the new performance charts are totally awesome.  they are like task manager opened across all VMs in front of you.
  • automate guest operating system customization improvements - server 2008 and ubuntu 8.04 
  • for disaster recovery of a vmfs volume - a replicated volume not in the same datacenter can be mounted without writing a new signature.
  • you can record and replay virtual machine execution. - vmkernel exploit protection
  • many integrity checks and hardware-based protection option available.

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did some work on compiling pyrit 2.3 under cygwin windows and mingw

http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/issues/detail?id=22

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