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As a nano user I often get flack from those around me who use Vim about not having syntax highlighting. So, after taking this for some time I decided to find a way to add syntax highlighting to nano and to my surprise, it is actually already built in and simply not enabled.

This week’s reading rainbow focuses heavily on Botnets and malware with a link to SANS internet storm center for a proactive, rather than reactive method of dealing with this threat. Also included is a link to my continuing coverage on cyber warfare and America’s method of “dealing with it.” Finally, an interesting article on Virtual Machine MAC addresses and Firefox 3’s missing feature: private browsing.

That’s cookies times three… or perhaps Third party cookies. Not the world’s greatest pun, but all the same a decent intro. In this posting I will explain third party cookies and why they are bad as well as provide a method to deal with these pesky cookies without destroying your “website experience.

I managed to miss a whole week or so of posting, but I have come back with my reading rainbow. This episode covers a few different topics ranging from Mozilla’s new marketing campaign to a few new articles on cyber-warfare.

This week we look at Florida’s response to Version’s poor service, Panda Security’s new Security as a Service solution, and five simple was to make Windows XP both faster and more secure. Also, we see a way to help keep PHP cron processes from living beyond their time and go in depth into “Insecure Memory.”

I’ve worked with a lot of people who had trouble with setting up wifi on BackTrack2 and decided it would be worth a post on how I manage it.
I prefer to do this task from the command line, since it allow more control, plus it shows you exactly what happens in the background of […]

In my previous post on penetration testing I mentioned various tools that I use for web application testing. In this post and future posts, I will go into some of these tools and how I use them. This post will be over Tamper Data, which is probably the add-on I use most for penetration testing.
Tamper […]

Discussed in this weeks post are a few new FireFox addons, a way to remove Internet Explorer 7, and a great source for all you programmers. Also, I found a nice article on corporate security solutions and an article outlining a serious problem for security professionals today: the availably of easily used tools.

I was looking into various methods for backing up websites on my localhost and have come up with 3 options. I’m sure there are more, but these require tools you already have.

I recently purchased a used Alienware box that I will be turning into my “hotrod computer.” Since I have a habit of naming my machines (since most of the time they need encouragement or I need to personify them when I get upset), I have chosen Wylde as this machine’s name since it will be […]