Oh Twitter, you're the devil...

After changing to "New Twitter", I thought the torture was over.

My tweets came in as usual and everything went just fine.

But it seems the phrase "Never change a running system" never reached twitter.

I logged in as usual. Then I saw this message, telling me "This is your homepage, HackingHoradrim" and that I should follow someone. (I follow 200+)

Alright. I supposed it's a side-effect from the new Tweetdeck acquisition and I just had to reload.
Nope, nothing. Friends I asked didn't had a problem.

~ One hour later, tada, works fine. Don't know what it was, but sucked hard.
My 2 cents.

What a beautiful morning....

From time to time it's a good idea to update && upgrade your system.
In my case, it's Debian Lenny.

So, what did i do ?
Updated && upgraded && dist-upgraded via APT, changed the lenny parts to squeeze in /etc/apt/sources.list
Then updated && upgraded, aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
cat /etc/debian_version gave me a clear 6.0.1

Everything fine?
No sir.

Rebooted and... my system started beeping every other second + flashed the screen like above.

Solution? I put away that machine and i'm using another right now. No time to fix and to be honest:

Maybe i should reinstall it, after years of just upgrading.

Maybe.


Now i took some time to get that problem fixed.
Reboot, Single user, aptitude update & upgrade.
Took another ~40 minutes but was worth it. System up and fine =)

Secure / harden your MySQL Server...

Some of you might run a own MySQL Server or are in charge managing some..
This tutorial helped me a lot, keeping em' clean & a little bit more secure ;)
But always keep in mind, there are different attack vectors than "just" SQLi & the MySQLd.

Topics:

Disable or restrict remote access
Disable the use of LOCAL INFILE
Change root username and password
Remove the "test" database
Remove Anonymous and obsolete accounts
Lower system privileges
Lower database privileges
Enable Logging
Remove History
Patch your systems

Tutorials@SSTeam
With another 'paper', regarding industry-style solutions(esp. credit card, bank details storage)

Tutorial@GreenSQL

WeakNet Linux IV development has started

After the fire @WeakNetLabs, the developers are back on track.

According to the authors, the new linux version will include more tools and support more hardware, esp. WLAN hw.

So far the details I can give are: FluxBox is still the default WM, boot time is around 15 seconds on an 800MHz AMD laptop.

Source:
WeakNet Labs

Genesis

Hey there.

This isn't a always - up-to-date Blog.
It's not about politics, about specific topics or something.
It's a little place, where i can dump things that may interest some other guys...

So, add it or not..

Watch the LinkDump list, too...
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