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Vulnerable phpBB : Find and Disable.

Posted on 18 Jul 2005 by augie

Here’s a little script I wrote that attempts to find and disable old phpBB instances that may be vulnerable to the recent phpBB Worm in the wild. #!/usr/bin/perl # Name: Augie Schwer # File: find-vuln.pl # Date: 18, July 2005 … Continue reading →

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Getting Firefox and Thunderbird to play nice under Linux.

Posted on 01 May 2005 by augie

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are great programs, but they need a little glue to get them to talk to one another. Here’s how I did it on Linux. The documentation for these two scripts can be found here for those … Continue reading →

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FreeNX on Mandrake 10.1

Posted on 11 Mar 2005 by augie

FreeNX is an open source alternative to NoMachine’s NX Server. This means super speedy remote desktop access over SSH; I was streaming audio, surfing the web, chatting, checking email at home and doing the same via the nxclient on my … Continue reading →

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Unison to keep files synced.

Posted on 03 Mar 2005 by augie

I saw this article on Linux Journal and decided that I had to check it out; especially since installing unison for Mandrake is as easy as urpmi unison. I had been using rsync to keep certain local and remote directories … Continue reading →

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SHA-1 Broken and GnuPG (GPG)

Posted on 19 Feb 2005 by augie

As noted on slashdot ([1] , [2]) earlier this week; famed cryptologist Bruce Schneier noted in his blog entry that the hashing algorithm SHA-1 had been successfully broken. While the new advances against SHA-1 are computationally feasible they are still … Continue reading →

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