Topic: SECURITY - on April 6, 2004 at 8:52:00 PM CEST
XPLizer - Windows Hardning Frontend Tool
Linked below is a policy-hardening tool for Windows. It is designed for Windows XP, but can be also used for other Windows versions. The tool supplies a simple GUI for some of the most common security problems in Microsoft Windows.
The supported features include:
- Disable DCOM (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole)
- Disable Remote Desktop
- Disable Port 445 (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters)
- Disable *.Chm Execution - Denies all Chm exploits.
- Disable SSDP(UPNP) TCP Port 5000,UDP 1900
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 8:45:00 PM CEST
The Pulitzer Prizes -- 2004 Winners
List of 2004 Pulitzer Prize winners. Images of all prize-winning photographs and cartoons are available, as well as bios and photos of winners. Names of Nominating Jurors in all categories are also listed.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 6, 2004 at 8:42:00 PM CEST
Visual Surf Engine
This page loads slowly when many icons are displayed since the icons come from websites all around the world. Some of the icons link to sites which you may find objectionable. 500 of 15356 randomly selected randomly ordered compatible icons
Clicking an icon will send you to the website for that icon and will register a vote for the icon on this website.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 6, 2004 at 8:31:00 PM CEST
Top 75 Security Tools
In May of 2003, I conducted a survey of Nmap users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to determine their favorite security tools. Each respondent could list up to 8. This was a followup to the highly successful June 2000 Top 50 list. An astounding 1854 people responded in '03, and their recommendations were so impressive that I have expanded the list to 75 tools! Anyone in the security field would be well advised to go over the list and investigate tools they are unfamiliar with. I discovered several powerful new tools this way. I also plan to point newbies to this page whenever they write me saying "I do not know where to start".
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 6, 2004 at 8:27:00 PM CEST
The Secret Source of Google's Power
Much is being written about Gmail, Google's new free webmail system. There's something deeper to learn about Google from this product than the initial reaction to the product features, however. Ignore for a moment the observations about Google leapfrogging their competitors with more user value and a new feature or two. Or Google diversifying away from search into other applications; they've been doing that for a while. Or the privacy red herring.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 6, 2004 at 2:35:00 PM CEST
Ready for His New Evolution
After a decade spent tending almost only to his faithful, Prince has had a revelation. He's supposed to be a rock-'n'-roll star
Shortly after he signed a $60 million contract with Warner Bros. in 1992, Prince scrawled the word slave on his face, changed his name to a symbol and announced that he was retiring from recorded music. The problem was that he had a backlog of 450 songs he felt the world wanted to hear, and Warner Bros. simply refused to flood the market with that much product. Commercial suicide, the company said. In one of his last public acts before locking himself away in Paisley Park, his hermitage just west of Minneapolis, Minn., Prince stood before an awards-show audience and prophesied in his little whisper, "Perhaps one day, all the powers that are will realize that it is better to let a man be all that he can be than to try to limit his output to just what they can handle."
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 6, 2004 at 2:34:00 PM CEST
What's a XooMLe?
XooMLe allows you to query the Google search engine and have your results returned in XML format. Why the heck would I want to do that? Well, if you are a developer, you might not have access to the SOAP functionality required to directly access the Google API, so XooMLe might provide an easy way for you to do all the same things, but using a much simpler, HTTP/URI/XML-based API.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 6, 2004 at 2:32:00 PM CEST
Anonymizing Google's Cookie
If you use Google, and you accept it's cookie, you should give some thought to the implications, both good and potentially bad : this page tries to help you do that, together with an easy way to anonymize it without missing out on its benefits. First the good. It's useful to you. It's how Google saves your preferences (such as language, filtering, number of results per page, etc). If, like me, you want a hundred results per page (not just ten), in English only (not in languages I can't read), unfiltered for adult content (I'm not a child), then you need the Google cookie.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 6, 2004 at 2:30:00 PM CEST
Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge
The Redmond software giant is making its Windows installer technology under OSI's Common Public License.
On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository.
To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Ikea says founder not the richest
The founder of furniture giant Ikea isn't hurting for money, but the company he founded denied on Monday a report that he surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the world's wealthiest man.
In an article to be released this week, Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer said Ingvar Kamprad, 77, the founder of Ikea, surpassed Gates and Buffett.
The falling exchange rate between the Swedish krona and the U.S. dollar, the magazine said, had caused Kamprad's personal fortune to rise to an estimated $52.5 billion.
Ikea said that wasn't so.
"This is completely wrong. It's a mistake that is made all the time," said Ikea spokeswoman Marianne Barner.
"Estimating the value of the company, including all the stores, and saying it's all Ingvar's, that is totally wrong. Ingvar Kamprad does not own Ikea."
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Topic: BLOG - on April 6, 2004 at 2:21:00 PM CEST
Introduction to Photoblogs and MoBlogs
Photoblogs and MoBlogs are continuing to grow in popularity. I've had a number of emails in the past week asking for information on how to start your own photoblog or moblog so I thought I'd put together a central resource page on the topic of photoblogging and moblogging.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 6, 2004 at 2:19:00 PM CEST
BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a new and innovative P2P file sharing software. As soon as you download a chunk of a file BitTorrent uploads it to other users therefore the file spreads and downloads much faster. The more people download the faster it goes. Use the following link to download the latest BitTorrent client. Remember to leave the download window open as long as it's possible.
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