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Saturday, December 20. 2008
The onion routing project Tor has published a three-year development roadmap. It contains a lot of interesting material and research topics, like a mechanism to turn reliable clients into bridges/relays automatically, and 'bonus points' for well-behaving relays.
Saturday, December 20. 2008
I regularly browse through the list of new acquisitions of our university's library. Turns out there are a few interesting new books to read!
Continue reading "Five New IT books: A To-Do List"
Friday, December 19. 2008
One of the largest "identity thefts" in German history turned out to be a bizarre christmas story: Account data of 130,000 customers of the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) was delivered to the Frankfurter Rundschau (a German newspaper) on December 10th - allegedly even including PINs.
How did this happen? It was all about Stollen, a traditional German christmas fruitcake.
Continue reading "A Most Amazing (and funny) Privacy Scandal"
Friday, December 19. 2008
Dmitry Fadeyev from Smashing Magazine has posted some useful tips for (mostly Web related) interface design.
Thursday, December 18. 2008
Joyent is offering free VPS with 256MB RAM, 10GB storage and 'unlimited' traffic, as long as you're using Google's OpenSocial API. Yes, including root access.
Continue reading "Free vServer (Joyent)"
Thursday, December 18. 2008
A team from University of Mannheim has published a case-study about trojan keyloggers and their dropzones. What I found particularly interesting is the analysis of configuration mechanisms: The two examined families of keyloggers (Limbo/Netshell and ZeuS/Zbot) both contact servers for updated configuration, whereas the ZeuS family is more advanced and even allows to take screenshots to defeat virtual keyboards.
Continue reading "Interesting Paper on Trojan Keyloggers"
Friday, December 12. 2008
Auszüge aus dem Artikel Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie von Gunter Dueck, IBM Distinguished Engineer, aus der aktuellen "Informatik Spektrum" Dezember 2008:
QUOTE: Wer beginnt heute einfach mal so ein Projekt - aus unternehmerischer Lust? Das kann sich vielleicht ein mittelständischer Unternehmer leisten, der das Sagen hat und das eigene Geld gibt und dazu noch alles gut selbst überschauen kann. (...) Wer aber blickt bei großen Projekten noch durch? Etwas Neues muss überall genehmigt werden. Jeder sagt etwas dazu. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie haben eine große Idee und besitzen nicht zufällig die Firma oder die Unversität selbst. Sie können das Projekt nicht stemmen, Ihr Chef auch nicht, dessen Chef ebenfalls nicht. Keiner will eine neue Baustelle aufmachen.
Continue reading "Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie"
Friday, December 5. 2008
 A 3D world, filled with music coming from different sources, blended together in surround sound (5.1/7.1). Similar music is closer together (for example, based on last.fm information). You can freely move around, with distant sources fading out, until you only hear the closest source (standing "inside" it).
Continue reading "The Music Room"
Wednesday, December 3. 2008
Do you really need CAPTCHAs?
Spam bots are so effective today mostly because there's only a handful of different publishing software used (forum, blog, CMS). This is very convenient, because all information required to write and tweak a bot is identical for all installations. All the bot software has to do is query Google for parts of a particular URL (eg. inurl:yabb.pl or inurl:phpbb/posting.php) and continue with algorithms to circumvent the specific protection (if any).
Continue reading "Eliminate Form Spam Using Behavioural Analysis and Individual Forms"
Wednesday, December 3. 2008
QUOTE: Just like any language, developers can write code in PHP that ranges in quality from truly awful to very good. Learn good programming habits that can help you bridge the productivity gap.
Depending on whom you ask, the difference between a good developer and an excellent developer, in terms of productivity, is a factor of 10 to 20. An excellent developer is more productive because of his experience and good habits. When poor programming habits sneak into your code, they're a drain on productivity. This article demonstrates some good programming habits that can make you a better programmer.
Continue reading "Five Good Programming Habits in PHP"
Tuesday, December 2. 2008
uTest, a new startup, pays users for harvesting bugs in products.
Monday, December 1. 2008
Despite several efforts to bring it down (including the takedown of a major hoster, McColo, which hosted the primary server), the Srizbi network, comprising half a million "zombie PCs" and accountable for approximately 40% of all spam traffic, resurrected itself using an interesting technique: Its bots try to reach domains based on some (not yet disclosed) algorithm.
Continue reading "Srizbi Botnet Resurrects Itself. Interesting Technique."
Monday, December 1. 2008
Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun, wrote an interesting article about the company future, from his point of view. His main statements: Focus on web technologies (you probably guessed that) and give the Java Community Process (JCP) to the community in full.
Continue reading "What Sun Should Do"
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