Faster WAN connection anyone?
There are WAN accelerators out there from Juniper, Cisco, Blue Coat and others.
But for us tech-thirsty boys and girls without a bank account full of money they are far away from our reach.
Enter Traffic Squeezer...
Despotify: "We do not want to harm Spotify"
The Despotify group extracted about 40 password hashes before the vulnerability was fixed. They are puzzled about why the information was so detailed. All they had to do was to add a shared, or collaborated, playlist. Spotify replied with loads of details about the playlist's owner account; Name, date of birth, e-mail address and a hashed password file.
Despotify was behind the Spotify hack
The open client "Despotify" gave access to sensitive information about Spotify users.
Daniel Ek, CEO at Spotify, says: "They have simply managed to build a client which can communicate with Spotify's servers".
MySQL: Change the root password
One of the good habits of the security aware administrator is to regularly change password on critical system accounts. If you have a MySQL Server installed, then the MySQL root account definately belongs in this group.
It might be a good idea to change your Spotify password
Spotify has been attacked through a security vulnerability in the service. The vulnerability was discovered on December 19th, 2008. Now Spotify's technicans believe that the flaw is more critical than first feared and they found that the vulnerability has been used by a group of hackers. Passwords of user accounts created before December 19th might be in the wrong hands.
Cryptography (from the xkcd webcomic)
Visit the site for more laughter: http://xkcd.com
FreeBSD vs. Linux (SuSE)
A fun battle between FreeBSD and SuSE from techTV with Leo Laporte. Nerds only! :-)
How to setup Apache HTTPD on FreeBSD
In this guide we will work with FreeBSD 7.0 and it is assumed that FreeBSD is already running on your machine.
If not, check out http://www.freebsd.org/where.html in order to download FreeBSD for your hardware and then go to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html where you can read about how you install FreeBSD. Remember to install the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
A note on passwords
This cannot be repeated enough, hence this post.
Passwords are often considered an obstacle by many and a lot do not understand why they exist. The passwords are mostly controlled by a policy that require the user to change them regularly and the password must be this long and that complex. How do you create strong passwords without being a Memory Guru?