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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 […]

For work I built an HTTP Optimizer: Vanishing Point. It’s a framework that accepts plugins, so that custom optimization engines can be built for different file types. Currently I have released a CSS and Javascript optimizer plugin. Both implement packers/miniifiers designed by other people, however; I added in my own code to further optimize them. […]

I have finished up the first version of pwlib.java. It was created in Java 1.4, because I haven’t bothered to update Java in ages. I should be revising it for 1.6 soon enough, but this is something to get you going. I haven’t done a whole lot of testing on it just yet, so feel […]

A recent claim by PC Tools that Windows Vista was less secure than Windows 2000 has cause quite a reaction from both Microsoft security experts and independent security researchers.

You may notice that I changed from full blog posts on the front page to excerpts posted on the front page. For posts that didn’t have an excerpt before (most of them) they are simply being truncated. I will be going through most of them an adding in excerpts to keep the site looking clean and nice, but bear with me while I get it done.

-Samurai

I read a question recently on LinkedIn asking what tools penetration testers used for web application testing and felt that it was probably a question that merited more than the few sentences I put down as an answer. The following tools are for web application testing. This is by no means a complete list, but these are some common tools that are useful and anyone interested in penetration testing should look into understanding.

I’m proud to say that SamuraiNet Blog will soon be implementing RFC 2459 to help with bandwidth issues. Also, I have some articles showing that both FireFox and McAfee might be slacking in their security. Be sure to check out the link to AldarHawk’s new information security forum.

Over the past few years more and more news has arrisen about hacking becoming a part of warfare, however; it seems that though it has a tactical advantage and is a powerful resource for any government that uses it, it is not paid enough attention to. Governments’ lax attitude towards these actions only prove to […]

It’s been an interesting week in the computer world. As Slackware 12.1 has been released Hans Reiser has been incarcerated for murder. Also, I found a great article on closing up unwanted ports on your linux system and was shown an article comparing the efficiency of various programming languages.