FOSDEM, the free and open source developers’european meeting is taking place in Brussels on 23/24 February.
Their schedule is online and shows that there are going to be some interesting talks :
The virtualization track with talks on Xen. Application virtualization with next-generation Klik Unicoding With PHP 6 OWASP WebScarab-NG
SQLmap is a security tool that can check your site for sql injection vulnerabilities.
An article on the site of Bruce Schneier talks about “hacking Trams” via TV remote control.
Why would you need remote controls when most of the control cupboards are only protected with a generic lock for which you can find a key in any decent store? It’s much more fun figuring out what the function of the different buttons are if you’re closer to the “vehicle”.
An interesting read on gnucitizen.org on the UPnP attack via Flash.
A user visiting a webpage that is hosting a malicious SWF file (Flash) might allow an attacker to remotely take control of UPnP devices (like routers) on the users’ private network. Because of the lack of authentication mechanisms this can happen without any user authentication.
A successful attack would allow an attacker to change the firewall setup or administrative setup of broadband modems. Most … Read more.
An article on the blog of Evan Weaver talks about having you logs forwarded to twitter.
It doesn’t sound like such a good idea because you’re relying on the “privacy” protection mechanism of Twitter. This mechanism is acting as a black box so you could as well not be using any protection mechanism.
The idea itself isn’t that bad, having your critical messages (like process xxx not running)- forwarded to twitter might be more useful … Read more.
If OpenOffice doesn’t show any icons in the toolbars then you might want to re-install the packages
openoffice.org-style-default openoffice.org-style-human
.
Slicing a mysql result is easy with
select from_unixtime(unix_timestamp(timestamp) -unix_timestamp(timestamp) % $slicecount) as slice, count(*) from event group by slice
This will return the mysql statement sliced on the given number of slices.
A list of useful networking monitoring tools. This is not a Top 10 or Top 5 or Top whatever, the usefulness of these applications depends on your environment and what exactly you want to monitor for.
ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run … Read more.
PHP needs expat; this is included in the base set xbase42. If you didn’t install it at install-time you can get it with
cd / ftp http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.openbsd.org/4.2/i386/xbase42.tgz tar xzvpf xbase42.tgz
MagpieRSS is an RSS parser in PHP. If you’re parsing UTF-8 streams and the output looks crippled then you might want to try this (add this to your file that calls the Magpie-code ) :
define(‘MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING’, ‘UTF-8’); define(‘MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING’, ‘UTF-8’); define(‘MAGPIE_DETECT_ENCODING’, false);
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