Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.

Mark’s [Russinovich] Blog : The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

about windows SID issues and machine cloning: explains what windows SID is, who it is used, and why you should or shouldn’t change it when you image-clone a windows machine

Nehalem Routing Pefromance Test Results, 2009 Netdev conf, Vayatta.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

test results for linux routing performance on recent intel “nehalem” CPUs and 10G ethernet

PWN Your Infrastructure

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

Graphing Linux Disk I/O statistics with Munin – Michael Renner’s macro-blog

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.

OpenSSH Public Key Authentication

Friday, October 9th, 2009

notes on setting up SSH pubic key auth

Optimizing Linux for random I/O on hardware RAID – Fishpool

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.

[freeware ipsec vpn client for windows] Shrew Soft Inc : Download

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

An alternative to CiscoVPN Client, which is, sadly, is known not to work on 64bit versions of windows xp/vista/7.

[rus ]Об одном эвристическом методе детекции вирусных инжекций на сайтах / Информационная безопасность / Хабрахабр

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

statistical method for detection of statistical malicious javascript, perl implementation.

[rus] Однострочные программы на Perl / Великий Язык PERL! / Хабрахабр

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

interesting article explaining some details about perl “one-liners”