Dear $VENDOR, 2012 is nigh upon us and with the new year, I am throwing down a challenge to each and every IT vendor out there. 2011 was a brutal year of incidents, breaches, outages and FUD and the last thing anyone needs is a repeat performance. Instead, please take this list back to the… Continue reading
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A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
Spent some time today updating the missing bits of the OS X version of the Dropbox cloner I uploaded last night. You can just grab the executable or grab the whole project from the github repository. The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured… Continue reading
“Flatten” HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
One of my most popular blog posts — 24,000 reads — in the old, co-mingled site was a short snippet on how to strip HTML tags from a block of content in Objective-C. It’s been used by many-an-iOS developer (which was the original intent). An intrepid reader & user (“Brian” – no other attribution available)… Continue reading
Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid – SupportDetails
I’m putting together a computer & online safety presentation for an upcoming talk at a senior center in Portsmouth (NH) and came across Support Details in my information hunting trek. This site makes it dirt simple to get basic information from whomever you are providing remote support to (a task I’m sure many of us… Continue reading
Never A Better Time To Baseline
If you’re preparing to install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, now would be a good time to give Microsoft’s Attack Surface Analyzer a spin. ASA takes a baseline snapshot of your system state and then lets you take another snapshot after any configuration change or product installation and displays the… Continue reading
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09
Security VSR uses some high-ish profile attacks from 2010 to provide fodder for the VAR community :: Security Risk: Top Hacker Attacks of 2010. I include it as the examples they provide should make it easier for folks doing presentations where they need to show real-life attacks (without sifting through the individual entries at the… Continue reading
‘Spaces’ for Windows
UPDATE [2011-02-05] Added VirtuaWin to the list thanks to a tip by @ken5m1th. I’ve been setting up a relatively new 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine and decided to see if the virtual desktops landscape had changed much in the recent past. It’s amazing that with all of the feature duplication between OS X, *nix (esp… Continue reading