Security

OpenRCE, the Open Reverse Code Engineering community

2008-03-18 Felix Ehlers

The OpenRCE community website was created from scratch to grow with the needs in community that’s targeted to reverse engineering. Security researches use the advantages of OpenRCE as a centralized recource because of hosted files, blog, forums, articles and more. References: OpenRCE website

Zone-H statistic report 2005-2007

2008-03-18 Felix Ehlers

Zone-H publishes every year stats of registered attacks. According to those stats the most targeted operation systems are Linux, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000. The most defaced webservers are Apache, IIS/6.0 and IIS/5.0. References: Zone-H.org - Statistics report 2005-2007

Development of KisMAC stopped

2007-07-31 Felix Ehlers

The newly created german anti-hacker-paragraph 202c StGB let the developers of KisMAC to stop working on the project. It’s not yet clear if development is temporarily suspended to bring it up again in the netherlands.

Size does matter: Optimizing with size in mind with GCC

2007-07-31 Felix Ehlers

Many times, the size of your programs do matter, to save bandwith and resources for you and end-users, or if your target platform has restrictions on resources available. Many compilers have their own settings for optimizing code with size in mind, so does the GNU C/C++ Compiler. The full article can be found at utilitybase.com which was written by Nicolas Mendoza.

Skype plugin adds video

2005-06-16 Felix Ehlers

The vSkype plug-in let’s invite you up to 200 buddies to a video call - even if they don’t have a camera. You can also share anything you see on your screen, even your entire desktop! Whether you use Skype for business or to connect with family and friends, now you can show a presentation, work on a spreadsheet, or share photos of your weekend fun while seeing everyone on the call.