The life of an InfoSec Professional… - Latest Comments

Re: Help find this stolen Motorcycle

Brannigan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:02:49 -0000

Just heard about this from Amazon. Not much I can do here in Vegas, but I'm sending my condolences nonetheless. G' luck. I'd be crying rivers if that were my bike. But I just ride a beat up Suzuki.
~B

Re: FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Flash drives with hardware encryption CRACKED!

Eric — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:35:19 -0000

Before condemning all secure flash drives, I think you need a better understanding of what FIPS is actually testing.

FIPS 140 certification only tests the crypto algorithm, not key management. Key management and key handling are outside the bounds of FIPS 140.

The encryption on these drives wasn't actually cracked, it was the key management. Essentially, they found a "back door" because the key management on these drives isn't handled on the hardware encrypted portion of the drives themselves. It is handled on the front end via software, and that is where the mistake was.

Also, there are several manufacturers that weren't affected by this. Kanguru Solutions and Ironkey both have drives where the key management is done on the drive and thus more secure. Both are FIPS Certified and, to my knowledge, very secure.

If you still take issue with FIPS, there are other certifications that encompass more security aspects, such as Common Criteria.

Re: Problems continue to plague cloud computing: Gmail suffers partial loss of alphabet

Michael Morrise — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:27:51 -0000

gcvhjzvg obviously doesn't know satirical writing, even when it's dancing naked in front of him.

Sorry, that was immature. I'll go back to my corner now.

Re: Problems continue to plague cloud computing: Gmail suffers partial loss of alphabet

Brendan Dodds — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:20:03 -0000

@gcvhjzvg I think the fact that the article is tagged as 'Geek Humor' might suggest that "u" are in fact the dipsheet.

Re: Problems continue to plague cloud computing: Gmail suffers partial loss of alphabet

Name — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:16:26 -0000

The problem is spreading! gcvhjzvg has lost his apostrophe, and all the places where he meant to type "you" or "you're", it's showing up as "ur".

Re: Problems continue to plague cloud computing: Gmail suffers partial loss of alphabet

notyouraveragedipshit — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:09:27 -0000

Perhaps he knew that?

Re: Problems continue to plague cloud computing: Gmail suffers partial loss of alphabet

gcvhjzvg — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:56:05 -0000

Man, ur an idiot!
Its april fools day u dipsheet!!

Re: OMG! I used to work there!!!!

Swing Trading — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:36:21 -0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

Re: Dell Inspiron Mini 9 vs. Asus EEE PC 1000

turo62 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:48:02 -0000

There is no way it is worth $ 200 more than dell mini 9. The only way I would say that would be possible, is if both the boot up time and average rendering speed were a lot faster than dell mini 9.

Re: The Universal Netboot lnstaller…UNetbootin

linky1124 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:01:25 -0000

Have you ever tried to log into a Windows computer for a few minutes and you finally realize that you forgot the password?

There’s a way to reset the password and it doesn’t involve reformatting and reinstalling Windows. The solution is called Windows Password Reset. It can reset almost all Windows passwords in seconds. If you want to know how to use it, please visit it http://www.resetwindowspasswor...

Re: Amateur Radio License Study materials…

Kris — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:47:47 -0000

www.eham.net/exams/
www.qrz.com/testing.html
aa9pw.com/
kb0mga.net/

Etc.

But I'm still working on learning the GROL after passing Amateur Extra.

de KE4AHR

Re: Cisco wireless LAN vulnerability could open ‘back door’ – Network World; dc0des’ comments.

MB — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:23:28 -0000

As someone who gets to compete against Cisco every day in the infosec space, I can't help but laugh at gaffs like this.

Re: Inflight entertainment just got better.

pyrophreak — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:07:01 -0000

Yo decode...southwest flight to las vegas and on the way back to jacksonville FL had it too. they told us that it was experimental and would range in price from $2 to $12 depening on the length of the flight seeing as how yours is a longer flight then yeah thats why it would be $12. continue hacking the friendly skies lol.

Re: Of all the crazy things…

dc0de — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:58:44 -0000

Way too easy for them to forget...

Customer centric models that work, in my experience, are those that are driven from the top of the organization down. My credit union, and many of the companies that purchase from, are all customer centric. However, my bank, my insurance company, my government, my cable company and many others that I have to "contend with are simply in it for the money, not the relationship with the customer.

Re: Of all the crazy things…

Keith — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:39:10 -0000

HP is doing some really strange things lately. I don't know if upper management transitions are leading the company astray or if they've reached critical mass and might have to suffer a Dell-like set back to right the ship.

Personally I've been really worried about Procurve as they are further integrated into the HP fold. The product line and offerings are still top tier but I've seen some of the same insanity when it comes to proposals or support.

It's funny how quickly companies forget what it takes to earn the trust of users and how easily this trust is lost.

Re: Dell Inspiron Mini 9 vs. Asus EEE PC 1000

dc0de — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:22:56 -0000

Sure, but look at the DATE of the article, the Dell Mini 10 didn't exist.

As well, I've since purchased an eeePC 1000HE, and can tell you that it truly does have 7 hours of battery life.

It's quick, efficient, and very easy to work on, and I stand by my decision.

Take a look at the reviews of both the Dell Mini 10, and the Asus eeePc 1000HE at the following links: (Laptop Magazine online)

Dell Mini 10 - http://www.laptopmag.com/revie...

Asus eeePC 1000HE - http://www.laptopmag.com/revie...

Worthy of note are the battery life statements, in the March 6th Review of the Dell, the 6 Cell battery wasn't yet available, and the 3 cell battery only gave 2 hours and 43 minutes of life.

The Asus eeePc 1000HE tested on FEBRUARY 9th, lasted 7 hours and 8 minutes.

It doesn't seem that Dell is doing any real engineering work to make a "better" product to me... If you release a product later to the market that doesn't have the same capabilities, or better, and are going to charge more for it, it seems like they're making an inferior product, and hoping you'll buy it simply because of their name.

Re: The Universal Netboot lnstaller…UNetbootin

WB7ODYFred — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:19:19 -0000

Steven Lawson wrote this article on his blog about unetbootin and puppylinux on a stick.
Check it out, has some great link and good howto.

http://reddevil62-techhead.blo...

Older article Netbooting with PuppyLinux 2.12
http://nixbit.com/cat//utiliti...

Puppy Linux forum about booting an older Toshiba Laptop. Has many links
to netboot
http://www.murga-linux.com/pup...

Infoworld article
Test Center review: Specialty Linuxes to the rescue
Six sweet distributions that can boot from a pen drive, run in a sliver of RAM, rejuvenate an old system, or recover data from a dead PC
by Rick Grahen
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

Linux Today November 2008 article on unetbootin Long Detailed Article
http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_m...

PuppyLinux Forum Jan 11, 2009 Puppy 4.1.2_barebones_netboot.ios
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/v...

Nice long forum discussion Recommending to boot puppylinux instead of Ubuntu on
older hardware
http://ubuntuforums.org/archiv...

http://dc0de.com/?p=74

Re: “Tools that I cannot live without…” from our 12/20 dc404 meeting

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:02:54 -0000

Skulleria;

Thanks for the comments, we'll add it to the list. Many of us have used Whisper32 in the past, but agreed we switched to Keepass, since it's cross platform.

I hope that some others will like the HTML-Kit as well.

Thanks!

Re: “Tools that I cannot live without…” from our 12/20 dc404 meeting

kagil — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:35:16 -0000

Helpful post! I use Whisper a lot:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloa...

and also I can't live without HTML-Kit http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
It is an editor for html and scripting I really like.

Re: Comcast Outage… the painful truth