Extempore » security http://michaelhendrickx.com random ramblings of the disturbed mind Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:39:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Logging into SSH with a different username http://michaelhendrickx.com/200903_loggin-into-ssh-with-a-different-username.html http://michaelhendrickx.com/200903_loggin-into-ssh-with-a-different-username.html#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:59:52 +0000 Michael Hendrickx http://michaelhendrickx.com/?p=138 I love SSH. SSH is the de-facto service for remote server management, especially in a CLI environment.

Being a avid Linux user, and spending quite a bit of time on OSX lately, I often SSH into several servers remotely. Being subject to “username conventions”, you don’t always share the same username across machines. And I always wondered how one could just type ssh hostname instead of providing the username.

Seems that, by creating a .ssh/config file with following contents:


Host server.example.com server
  User username

WIll make life easier, as you can in the future only do a “ssh hostname”. I didn’t know this.

]]> http://michaelhendrickx.com/200903_loggin-into-ssh-with-a-different-username.html/feed 3 MS08-67 released out of the patch cycle, new blaster coming up? http://michaelhendrickx.com/200810_ms08-67-released-out-of-the-patch-cycle-new-blaster-coming-up.html http://michaelhendrickx.com/200810_ms08-67-released-out-of-the-patch-cycle-new-blaster-coming-up.html#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:23:37 +0000 Michael Hendrickx http://michaelhendrickx.com/?p=48 A newly discovery vulnerability made Microsoft release a security patch aside from it’s usual cycle, the notorious Patch Tuesday. This “Patch Tuesday” is normally every second Tuesday of the month.

MS08-067 fixes a bug in the RPC handling of the Windows Server service.

The bug was deemed as “critical” on pre-Vista machines, which is still the majority of Windows clients.

]]> http://michaelhendrickx.com/200810_ms08-67-released-out-of-the-patch-cycle-new-blaster-coming-up.html/feed 0 Minimalistic browser, Google’s Chrome http://michaelhendrickx.com/200809_minimalistic-browser-googles-chrome.html http://michaelhendrickx.com/200809_minimalistic-browser-googles-chrome.html#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:40:15 +0000 Michael Hendrickx http://michaelhendrickx.com/?p=22 Google came out with a new browser, called Chrome. A company that pushes so much into a browser, made their own browser with minimalistic design (as usually done by google) multiple features, such as the incognito windows (wont leave traces in your sites’s history), the built in javascript console, V8 Javascript engine.

See it as a firefox with your necesarry plugins, in a new jacket.

Very interesting product. And it seems that places.ae renders correctly in it, which is probably due to the borrowed Firefox code.

I am afraid that IE(8)’s days are counted.

Thank you,
Michael

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The “hacker” emailed the victim that he broke into her email account, and was going to release pictures and “other secrets” of her, according to GulfNews.

Not the cybercrime caliber of russian extremist webmasters being “accidentially” executed, but still.

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