Getting IP Location Information in Wireshark
Laura Chappell just posted a great tutorial on getting GeoIP working with the new version of Wireshark (1.2). I set it up myself recently and…
Author: Cybernoz
A Security-focused HTTP Primer
What follows is a primer on the key security-oriented characteristics of the HTTP protocol. It’s a collection of a number of different sub-topics, explained in…
Installing the Latest Version of Nmap Using Subversion
As of the last year or so my preferred method for installing and updating nmap is to use subversion. It’s a good way to make…
Opportunity Meets Adventure in Hong Kong
Initiatives like the Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) by the Hong Kong Government is making it easier for international talent to move to Asia, with…
The Highest Stage of Human Awareness
The highest form of human awareness comes through a number of realizations and stages of acceptance regarding the nature of human existence. There is no…
Discussion: Where’s the Best Place For Country Blocks?
In a scenario where your SMB or enterprise gets constantly bombarded (portscans, brute force, spam, etc.) by Russia, China, Brazil, et al., and where you…
Chrome About to Overtake IE on My Site
In the short time that Chrome has been around, it’s already about to overtake Internet Explorer on this website. The graph below is for the…
Wireless: WPA2 Enterprise Integration With Active Directory 2008 Using NPS
So I finally got my Wireless Access Point (an Apple AirPort) authenticating off of Active Directory-integrated LDAP in Server 2008 (which is called NPS now).…
Anatomy of a Twitter Post: How to Obscure Narcissism with Wit
First, let’s state the obvious: you need a bit of ego to maintain a Twitter account. Not to experiment, but to keep doing it. To…
Atheism: More Aggressive vs. Group, Less vs. Individuals
I think I’ve made a decision to be more direct in my attacks against beliefs in the supernatural (including religion). I make this decision based…
Git: Ignore WordPress Cache Files using .gitignore
I’ve had a nagging problem for some time where I couldn’t figure out quite how to ignore my wp-content/cache directory when doing syncs with git.…
Use Splunk as Your Remote Syslog Server
So I’ve been messing with Splunk> a bit recently, and as part of that I’ve been sending logs from iptables, snort, and apache–not to mention…