Yesterday, I bought a new wireless router for home. I was in the computer store to buy some DVDs and picked it up in more of an impulse. My old router was not performing well so I bought the first draft-n gigabit router I happened to stumble upon after quickly having verified that it was [...]

First of all: No I am not dead and yes I will continue to blog here. I just took a bit of a ‘blogging sabbatical’ the last couple of months.
That said,  I  (and many others so it seems) downloaded Chrome, Google’s vision of a web browser this week and played around with it for a while. [...]

This week, I got my invite for Google App Engine in the mailbox. If you have not heard of it, Google App Engine is a beta product from Google where you can publish your web apps to Google’s massive infrastructure. Currently only Python is supported as a language but Google intends to add other languages [...]

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 [...]

Some time since I posted here (work, travel. holiday and other excuses) but I hope to have a little more spare time in the future.
I woud like to use this post to raise some awareness on basic incident handling procedures. I learned some time ago at SANS that Incident Handling is a process which consists [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For the ones who did not read Max Moser’s paper about converting a cheap USB bluetooth dongle into a full blown bluetooth sniffer, the code 0xa12:0×0001is the devide ID for the cheap CSR based bluetooth device which Max used to do the conversion.
The reason why I am so happy with this code is that [...]

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 [...]

I noticed that, again, I did not update this blog for quite some time now. Of course, I have been busy with all kinds of stuff. But part of maintaining a blog is actually blogging about the stuff you are busy with and not using it as an excuse not to blog. Therefore I am [...]