I blogged about it before but every now and then someone finds a new physical ‘hack’ into windows. Here is an example of a recent hack using backtrack to gain access.
This just illustrates one of Microsoft’s 10 Immutable Laws of Security:
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not [...]

As you may know, firewire devices can have access to the main memory of a PC thanks to DMA.
Because of this, firewire can be used as an attack vector against a running PC. This not news. Adam Boileau presented this technique back in 2006 but because of recent news, I decided to give it a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This Sunday, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 codenamed ‘Etch’ was released as the next stable release of Debian. Therefore, both the servers where this site is hosted on have been upgraded to the latest version.
Although not as easy as just running ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’, the upgrade went very smooth. I just had to follow the release notes and [...]

I didn’t have time to update this blog last week. Most of my free computer time was spent on recovering my home linux server.
Tuesday evening, the three months old 500GB SATA disk of my home server crashed! And it crashed big time. Nothing but ‘tak-tak –tak’ and it was impossible to recover anything from the [...]