Microsoft just released their monthly patches.
It contains:

one important patch (LSAS, local exploit)
In my opinion, especially important for systems like terminal servers or shared multi-user systems.
one highly critical patch (vulnerability in TCP/IP stack)

The reason why I am writing about this and put the TCP/IP vulnerability in bold is that this is one [...]

MD5 hashes are no longer safe as a hash for signing applications or fingerprinting documents
Short summary of the paper:
It is possible (in a ‘chosen prefix attack scenario) to generate identical MD5 hash values for two functional different binaries.
This has been done before (in 2004) but the main difference here is that the altered binary is [...]

It seems that it is possible to listen to the signal of a fiber cable with a piece of hardware which costs less than $1000.
Organizations where eavesdropping of cables is not an acceptable risk and who have invested in fiber everywhere (instead of EM radiating copper cable) have to make sure that their cabling is [...]

This weekend, I put a Linksys WRT54G at my sister’s apartment to enable her(and her boyfriend) to share the internet connection. No big deal off course but I also thought it would be nice if the router could act as an OpenVPN client so my network and her network would be securely connected through the [...]

Since there were some serious vulnerabilities discovered in VMware products lately, it is time to upgrade to the latest releases of their software if you are running it.
I run a VMware server @home on my Core 2 Duo machine to test some OS/configurations without the need of physical machines. In the beginning of this year [...]

I read an article today about major US ISPs which are signing up for GoodMail.
Goodmail offers CertifiedEmail which according to their website does the following:
The Certified Email™ Solution
What is CertifiedEmail?
CertifiedEmail is a premium delivery option for qualifying senders that positively affects email marketing metrics. Once you have been accepted into the program, your marketing and [...]

After a nice relaxing and sunny weekend with not much IT related activity, this week starts for me with a two day training on ISS SiteProtector. I didn’t receive training yet from ISS in the past so I was curious what the quality of their training would be. It turns out that it is [...]

I just saw a video of the new Microsoft Surface Computing platform :

The first multi-touch display which will be available to consumers will be the iPhone but I think multi-touch displays will become the next revolution in input technology. Goodbye mouse and keyboard?

Today, CNET reported that Domainkeys are adopted by the IETF as a standard and that the outlook of a lot less spam and phishing is nearby. In my opinion it will not solve the spam problem and fulfill Bill Gates’ prophecy of a spam free world any time soon.
The Domainkeys system works similar as signing [...]

This week, thanks to some holiday in Belgium, the weekend started on a Wednesday evening instead of a Friday. Every week should have a 4-day weekend!
Apart from some sleeping in, squash, hanging out in the pub, going out, catching up on my favorite feeds, watching some TV (I have refound my old love for [...]