February 2011

Ein sehr interessanter Artikel über Datenschutz und Vorratsdatenspeicherung:

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-02/vorratsdaten-malte-spitz

Here’s a nice post about plugins for Firefox from a security’s perspective:

http://research.zscaler.com/2011/02/browser-plugins-and-security.html

My Yubikey (first generation, in service several times per day for nearly two years now) started to get unreliable. Not every “key press” worked anymore. I noticed that the black paint has nearly vanished from the “key” press field. I just wrapped adhesive tape around the key and it now works reliable again. Great product 🙂

Nice post by ISC SANS:

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10366

Here are two interesting things for looking for security bugs in PHP code:

•  Grepping for bugs in PHP: http://www.ethicalhack3r.co.uk/security/greping-for-bugs-in-php/
• RIPS (static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/rips-scanner/