Proper vulnerability disclosure process:
NIAC Vulnerability Disclosure Framework
Thanks to Mike Caudill for posting this list to Security Basics @SecurityFocus Mailing list.
– Suramya
January 23, 2006
Sites for publishing security related whitepaper’s
Following are good sites for getting your security related papers published. Conversely they are also good sites for getting security related material.
* SecurityDocs.com
* SecurityFocus
People interested in writing an Infocus technical article should contact security Focus at content-editor@securityfocus.com, along with details of the article idea and an outline for consideration.
– Kelly Martin
Security Focus
Thanks,
Suramya
January 22, 2006
December 11, 2005
Ver 0.3 of getHype released
After a long delay Ver 0.3 of getHype has been finally released.
Change Log
Ver 0.3: (11th Dec 2005):
* getHype now gets the list of mp3’s to download from the RSS feed instead of getting them from the GetHype frontpage.
* The files are now downloaded using the LWP perl module instead of using wget. So its a bit more secure/safer.
* Added an option to let the user set the network timeout in seconds.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Suramya
December 9, 2005
Some Useful XEmacs Customizations
A XEmacs customization tutorial:
In the past, any Unix system that did not have the vi editor was considered neutered. While many users still believe that, my opinion is the best Unix text editor is the one you know, and, today, many people do know Emacs. Scuttlebutt has it that even Bill Joy — the creator of vi — uses Emacs. With Emacs users in mind, Tom Benton presents some useful XEmacs customizations.
Complete Article: Some Useful XEmacs Customizations
– Suramya
December 8, 2005
AJAX: Instant Tutorial
A really simple AJAX tutorial. Its quick, clean and easy to follow.
Source: Voyager I – WebDev – AJAX: Instant Tutorial
– Suramya
December 7, 2005
20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
Finally a decent guide on how to secure an Apache installation. I am not maintaining any apache server’s right now but if I was this would have been a great help.
Complete Article: 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
– Suramya
A long awaited update
Ok, its been a while since I last posted. Its been because of pure lazyness combined with a hectic work schedule. More of a lazyness than work but you get the idea.
So what have I been upto? As some of you are aware my birthday was on the 3rd of Dec and it was fun. Originally the plan was to go paintballing in the daytime (For those of you who are wondering what paintballing is check out: http://paintball.about.com/cs/gameinfo/f/paintballfaq.htm and http://paintball.com/) and then follow that with a dinner at a Hawaiian restaurant. Unfortunately Surabhi fell sick so I decided to not go for Paintball and cancelled the dinner.
So I called up all the people I had invited and told them that dinner was cancelled because I didn’t want to leave Surabhi alone at home. At this point I was a bit sad that I had to cancel the dinner but otherwise not expecting anything. Decided to watch a movie and just relax. Vinit on the otherhand had a different idea on how I should spend my birthday, he called up all the people who were originally supposed to be coming for the dinner and had them come over to our apartment. Now this was a total and complete surprise. It was awesome 🙂 🙂 We had ordered Indian food from Rasoi and then spent a couple of hours talking and having fun.
The next day Surabhi and Vinit left for India. Now they are enjoying in India while I am stuck here. Actually I am happy that they left early as that gives them time to do most of their shopping without my being there ;).
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
December 6, 2005
Easy Ajax with xajax
xajax is an easy to use Ajax library for PHP. The site below has some good examples on how to use it to create ajax powered websites.
Complete Tutorial: The Net is Dead – Easy Ajax for the masses with xajax
– Suramya
November 30, 2005
Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
This is something I have been looking for a while. It is a really good tutorial on how to use sed.
Extract:
How to use sed, a special editor for modifying files automatically. If you want to write a program to make changes in a file, sed is the tool to use.
There are a few programs that are the real workhorse in the Unix toolbox. These programs are simple to use for simple applications, yet have a rich set of commands for performing complex actions. Don’t let the complex potential of a program keep you from making use of the simpler aspects. This chapter, like all of the rest, start with the simple concepts and introduces the advanced topics later on.
Complete Tutorial: Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
– Suramya