I noticed something strange lately, when Google Chrom(ium) 12.0.742.112 (90304) on my up-to-date Ubuntu 11.04 is running, it sends in 10 seconds interval always DNS queries out similar to these: 09:28:54.892711 IP linux.home.lan.52626 > ipv4gw.home.lan.domain: 55443+…
I have to admit, I really loved Apache with ModSecurity (with the CoreRuleSet), it gave me "peace at night". But then I noticed that this actually eats quite a lots of memory... and as a heavy TinyTinyRSS user I noticed that TTRSS is sometimes quite sluggish loading articles. So I…
Just a quick tip: You have Postfix running and want to enable IPv6 for your email as well? After quite some playing around I finally got it right: inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1, 94.229.77.82, 2a01:348:6:315::2, ::1 inet_protocols = ipv4, ipv6 This makes…
PrefaceI just fixed a quite common problem what most of us have at home - the wireless signal is not that great in other places in the house. I wanted to do two things initially: Using Solwise powerline adapters, I dont want to drill in walls to install long ethernet…
Alec Muffett mentions in his article "The Security Backlog" that there* may be another B-Sides later in the year, and we can expect a big London security conference this autumn.* Thanks for linking, Alec.…
I am pleased to present that BSidesLondon was I great success. Awesome technical talks, awesome people, very good conversations there, and most importantly, it was very well organized! I really appreciated it that there was no alcohol allowed, Club-Mate as the "Hacker-drink" was available. It started by explaining where BSides…
It was bugging me a bit that my (internal) IPv6 address was a static one, ie. it is forever and ever the same, unlike a dynamic DSL IP. I heard/read somewhere about "IPv6 Privacy Extensions" are dealing with this issue, so I looked into this. I originally thought -…
m0n0wall is a good product for running a firewall/gateway on an embedded device. It is based on BSD, very slick and reliable. I was using it a couple of years back, but unfortunately my hardware didnt had wireless integrated, so I had to give it up and get a…