So … it’s official, got my first ever security certificate – CISSP
I’ve never liked those it related certificates, that everyone is in hurry for. Somehow I don’t really find them an adequate measurement for people’s competence level. But in the bloody world outside BG they seem to matter. I’ll write if the effort was worthy … I have to admit – there was some effort :).…
How long it takes to learn to program?
Today I’ve found an interesting article called Teach yourself programming in Ten Years. As a contra-point of our ‘fast food’ world it supports my maxim that there are no short cuts to proficiency. Enjoy
Kerckhoff’s principle
No algorithm should be kept secret; only the key should be the secret component<
Acrobat Reader under siege again or Why to update Acrobat Reader?
Adobe still fights the ripples from the vulnerability announced on 15.12.2009. All the versions prior 9.2 are vulnerable to malicious Javascripts that allow shell execution attack to be successfully performed. The colleagues from Trend Micro had spotted a new malware able to exploit this particular vulnerability. More info on: http://blog.trendmicro.com/unpatched-adobe-vulnerability-is-still-being-exploited-in-the-wild/
Pangolin – нова програмка за тестване на сигурността на база данни
NOSEC anonced a new DB security testing tool, called Pangolin. The free version of the product is able to test only Microsoft databases – have to find a way to crack it. Let’s hope that Pangolin will behave better than Matrix assessment tool. Enjoy http://www.nosec.org/en/pangolin.html
Wanda the fish – Windows edition
I’ve started using Windows again for most of my work, but I miss a lot some little tweaks from the Ubuntu environment. Although I have several virtual machines it’s a bit stupid to start a virtual machine only because of those tweaks. One of the programs I missed a lot in Windows environment is ‘fortunes’…
Skype Chat Logs Dissection
Target software: Skype for Windows/Linux What’s all about? Did you ever tried to export all your Skype history? It’s a little bit boring to copy and paste every conversation in separate text file, isn’t it? It’s even worse if you use the Linux version of this famous chat client. Did you ever wondered if it’s…
