10/26/2005

PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities

Filed under: Developing — Guus @ 6:02 pm

I foud a good page about PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities.

The Open Web Application Security Project released a helpful document that lists what they think are the top ten security vulnerabilities in web applications.

These vulnerabilities can, of course, exist in PHP applications. Here are some tips on how to avoid them. I’ve included related links and references where relevant.

10/20/2005

How to build an airport in the ocean?

Filed under: Common interest — Guus @ 7:42 am

This has to be difficult to build:

How to build an airport in the ocean?

10/19/2005

Google Sitemaps

Filed under: Developing — Guus @ 1:45 pm

Google has a new tool for website developers. It’s still in beta phase, so it can still be tricky to use. This is what Google says about their new service:

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

Google Sitemaps

Couple of days ago I installed this WordPress plugin: google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
It automatically publishes an updated XML feed with every posting.

10/18/2005

Password recovery deluxe.

Filed under: Software — Guus @ 7:44 pm

“Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes and analyzing routing protocols.”

Cain and Abel

10/17/2005

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

Filed under: Software — Guus @ 12:53 pm
If there’s one thing Gmail knows, it’s spam. Hosting millions of email addresses means millions of spam messages arrive every day—and Google must unleash their minions in the never-ending battle to stop that stuff from getting into your Inbox.

So, Gmail’s spam filters are really good, and with a little bit of cunning technique, you can use the system to filter all of your mail, and not just Gmail.

Using Gmail to…

SwitchProxy Mozilla plugin

Filed under: Software — Guus @ 10:45 am


SwitchProxy is a Firefox extension that can be used in two different ways:

* If you work with more than one proxy server on a regular basis, SwitchProxy lets you edit and remove them from a single master list. Then you can select a proxy from the list and click Apply.
* SwitchProxy can also be used as an anonymizer, allowing you to surf the web anonymously by using a list of proxies that it randomly switches at defined intervals.

SwitchProxy website

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions - Uncyclopedia

Filed under: Humoristic — Guus @ 9:38 am

Great howto upgrade your Ipod Nano with a 200gb harddisk drive. It has some drawbacks, like battery life is only 6 minutes.. And also this:

Ipod Nano with a 200gb harddisk drive

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions - Uncyclopedia
Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions

10/16/2005

Installing Vista in VMWare

Filed under: Software — Guus @ 11:57 pm

In the last couple of hours I installed MS Vista Beta 2 within a VMware image. I experienced some glitches, but luckily Google helped me out. I found two article’s that were useful to me:

They are worth a visit. On the Elder Geek you can also find some screenshots of Vista.

10/11/2005

New Windows Vista released

Filed under: Humoristic, Software — Guus @ 3:05 pm


New Windows Vista released

Enable Terminal Services with File Copy

Filed under: Software — Guus @ 11:45 am

File Copy is an extension to MS Terminal Services server that allows you to copy and paste between server and client.

Hotfixes MSTS: File Copy