Security Incident — Blog — WordPress.com [ wordpress.com got 0wned]
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011this is just great … at least they notified their users in a timely manner. Change your passwd if you have wordpress.com account.
Archive for April, 2011
Characterizing the Software Process A Maturity Framework / 87tr011.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Original paper [report] by Watts Humphrey, which is later become the famost CMM book. (Managing the Software Process, by Watts Humphrey, originally published in 1989) . Also see http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=q…
Alexey Navalny – One man’s cyber-crusade against Russian corruption : The New Yorker, APR 4, 2011 by Julia Ioffe.
Saturday, April 9th, 2011An excellent (as always) write-up from New Yorker about a rising star in Russian modern politics Alexey Navalny and the current state of corruption in Russia ( fake government contracts, kickbacks, etc). What is interesting to know (and I happen to ag…
[Amazon AWS] PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance FAQs
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Amazon AWS is “PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 -compliant Shared Hosting Provider”. i.e. you can build your PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure using EC2, S3, EBS and VPC to store and process payment card data
tou_46-02.pdf Volkswagen Touareg – Rear wheel brakes, servicing (application/pdf Object)
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011VW OEM Service manual for rear brakes for Taureg Models. For Brembo breaks look at the page 25
Perl 5 to Perl 6 Regular Expression Converter [online tool]
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011It is not always works, but at least give you an idea. Perl6 regex syntax is really different from normal perl and it is not [yet] well documented. Or you can prefix each regex in perl6 with :p5 to make it perl5-compatible
A Tale of Four Kernels
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”
A subjective code quality …
Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics
Monday, April 4th, 2011“Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them”
About feds “enforcement” efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)
A message from Comodo Hacker – Pastebin.com
Monday, April 4th, 2011[also see LWN's write-up https://lwn.net/Articles/435214/ .] Curios message [allegedly] from a person who hacked into Comodo CA. Makes you wonder … Basically the whole SSL trust is just a piece of crap and cannot be trusted at all — major CA …
[rus ] ir_ingr: Кокаиновые подлодки – часть 3 | ir_ingr: Cocaine Submaries
Monday, April 4th, 2011Photos of do-it-yourself submarines that people build in Columbia to transport cocaine. Pretty amazing technology 
/ from russian segment of LiveJournal /