Category: Mix

Study: Phi – The Golden Ratio
01
Apr
2025

Study: Phi – The Golden Ratio

The golden ratio is a number, approximately 1.618, which when considered as a ratio posseses many interesting properties (Wikipedia). The…

Blackberry | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Blackberry | Daniel Miessler

Got me a Blackberry. My old Nokia has been irking me as of late, and I have been wanting to…

Network Intrusion Prevention Systems | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Network Intrusion Prevention Systems | Daniel Miessler

Anyone keeping track of the security vendor/technology hype knows that IPS has quickly replaced IDS as the “next big thing”….

Study: Alternative Data Streams | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Study: Alternative Data Streams | Daniel Miessler

You may be interested to know about another “SECRET” that the boys in Redmond try not to advertise. It is…

Study: SMTP | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Study: SMTP | Daniel Miessler

SMTPRFC 821 SMTP is the main protocol used for sending mail on the Internet. Understanding it to at least a…

Go OS X
01
Apr
2025

Go OS X

Cherry OS has just come out with one of the coolest things to hit desktop computing in years. This software…

Writing | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Writing | Daniel Miessler

It seems my writing has gone from something of an experiment/curiosity to something different. I am not sure what that…

An IPTABLES Primer | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

An IPTABLES Primer | Daniel Miessler

iptables is the packet filtering technology that’s built into the 2.4 Linux kernel. It’s what allows one to do firewalling,…

A Bigger Boat | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

A Bigger Boat | Daniel Miessler

Well, I have published another article after over a year without doing so, and this time it has met with…

Diffie-Hellman | Daniel Miessler
01
Apr
2025

Diffie-Hellman | Daniel Miessler

Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol developed by Diffie and Hellman (imagine that) in 1976. The purpose of Diffie-Hellman is…

Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer
01
Apr
2025

Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. I know, I know — you may have heard the same thing…

Geek Battles: A Call for Perspective
01
Apr
2025

Geek Battles: A Call for Perspective

“Linux sucks as a desktop.” “Windows is insecure.” “OS X is for rich, trendy art majors.” Depending on who’s in…