Who is Adrian Hannah?
Adrian was a poor college kid living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan trying to make a living as a System Administrator. Now he's a struggling new hire at a software firm in New York, but he's still trying to make a living as a system administrator.
Tag Archives: Security
Corporate Armies
In the midst of this whole Blackwater fiasco that has been in the news lately, I can’t help but think about how closely my predictions have been matched. You see, when the tightening of security started to happen in airports … Continue reading
Hello foreigner!
I’ve been seeing a lot of news lately on the subject of the “new” passports the US is moving towards using (starting next year), and to be honest I’m not happy about it at all. If you don’t know about … Continue reading
Down with Gatwick!!!
I’ve been meaning to post about this since… well… since we were in London. Yes, I flew through London to come home. Yes security was as ridiculous as they were saying, and as usual a purely subjective operation. The only … Continue reading
Hooray for OS fingerprinting!
I did my first bit of experimentation with OS fingerprinting today, it was pretty neat actually. If you use the command-line tool curl you can pick up some extra headers that a web server sends to you with a webpage, … Continue reading
Exploitable Bug?
I just stumbled across an intriguing bug… I was logged into my webserver while sitting in class (yeah, yeah I should be paying attention in class), I closed up my laptop and went to my next class not thinking about … Continue reading
Somebody should be REALLY embarassed right now…
A short post, but this is why you should never share your iTunes library while you’re on a public wireless access point: Picture accidentally deleted.
We are not amused
Sony (which I’ve ranted about) recently released a patch to “fix” their DRM/rootkit issue, unfortunately it has been found that the patch creates even more vulnerabilities on the machine it is applied to. The EFF is urging people to NOT … Continue reading
It has begun…
A trojan virus was just discovered that exploits the Sony DRM Rootkit using an email and attached picture to create an IRC backdoor on the machine. I hope Sony gets what they deserve on this one.
Outrage!!!
There have been a disturbing number of news articles I’ve been reading lately involving the Digital Landscape. 1). Hollywood pushes for “Analog Hole” law – Hollywood is trying to get lawmakers to pass a law to “close” the analog hole. … Continue reading
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Today is a bit of a lazy day. I’ve been chillin out in my office, doing a little work here and there and messing around with some stuff otherwise. The shuttle launched today, I tried watching it on my computer … Continue reading