I have been frustrated time and time again by my Linksys combo router/gateway device. While it normally works OK, it lacks a lot of the configuration and functionality of a “real” firewall and gateway device and I worry about the shady TCP/IP stack implementation Cisco came up with. This article will document the process of building up a VIA mini-itx board as a dedicated firewall/gateway device for my home network…
I’ve learned recently that good security testing is all too often a shadow of a larger skillset - good debugging knowledge. Because of this I’ve been following many more of the blogs of individuals on the Windows debugging and advanced troubleshooting teams and learning more about the tools they use to peer deeply into applications and systems.
Two of the programs which come up often in their troubleshooting are WinDBG and Process Explorer. Having used each extensively over the last few months I noticed a cool new (to me at least) feature in Process Explorer tonight and thought I would share it - this is the DEP and ASLR status tags.
To enable the identification tabs right-click on the column headings in the main window. This brings up a menu which allows you to select the appropriate tags…
Now you can quickly identify running programs having these features enabled. This is very similar to the information from David Maynor’s LookingGlass utility. (whose link seems to come and go in my bookmarks)
I prefer to have less applications that are more universally powerful than having to download a hundred different software utilities, each with specialized tasks, but YMMV.
I logged onto Second Life for the first time last night and honestly, I don’t get it…. it seems like unless you are really into making your avatar dance, wear funky clothes, or get it on with another avatar - there is not a whole lot really going on. Can someone please shed some light into what all the hype is about?
Fixed the Tivo with a new power supply. A bit of advice to people having troubles… No lights, but spinning fan and HDD is most likely a power supply. Tivo booting with a “Welcome to Tivo… one moment please” (or something close to that) is almost certainly a problem with the hard disk drive. In my case, I had swapped the Master/Slave jumper earlier in my troubleshooting. All good - for now…
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