Archive for June, 2009

Cleaning up a big mailbox (the outlook way)

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

What happens when you leave unsuspecting active sendmails laying around, just to send logwatch report messages, for the same mail account, on linux servers, BUT for instance, with an unfinished DNS configuration (“oh..wasn’t a priority then” :P ) ?

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What’s your CMS?

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I’ve been messing around with CMS software for more than 10 years now.

In the old days, I used to be a phpnuke hardcore user. In time, I was fed up with the large quantities of bugs and insecurity plaguing the nuke. SQL injections in some versions are trivial, and therefore busting a nuke’s database also is. Besides the nuke seemed to be stuck in the web 1.0. On the other hand, ironic as it is, there are security portals out there made in nuke :)

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Internet killed the video star (again)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Speaking of Internet piracy, local anti-piracy lobbies here in Portugal, blame the Internet, for everything and anything bad, that happened to the entertainment and software industries, in the last decade.

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