Author: Arthur

I was born in Kiev and have been living in Los Angeles for almost 25 years. I've been in IT pretty much since I was 13 and got my first computer. My specialties lie in the area of devops and web security, although I've pretty much done everything at one time or another.

Dog Paradox

September 21, 2012 / Arthur / 0 Comments

Another great comic from TheOatMeal. It will really hit home for dog owners.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox

Father of the Year

September 21, 2012 / Arthur / 0 Comments

Great set of pictures.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.443540022332961.98918.135004263186540&type=3

UNIX tricks

September 13, 2012 / Arthur / 0 Comments

Some nifty uses of old commands.

http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html

CRIME Attack

September 13, 2012 / Arthur / 0 Comments

SSL is now vulnerable to session hijacking in some circumstances. If your site runs SSL/TLS, the compression needs to be off.

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor/19914#19914

Browser Security

September 13, 2012 / Arthur / 0 Comments

There was a recent poll where Opera came out on top as the most secure browser and this article tries to figure out why. It is indeed the most “secure”, but for a whole different reason. It’s the same reason as Apple used to claim that they didn’t have viruses. It’s just “security by obscurity”. Because the market share is so small, most malware authors won’t bother to target that particular browser. If Opera was #1 in market share, I would posit that it’d be marginally different from any other browser.