This morning Twitter was a fire with people talking about the news that O2 are sending the phone number of a user in the HTTP request headers when browsing from a phone. Some people were upset about this and others were complaining that this is "No big deal". On it's own it might not be but O2 has several 'Self Service' portals on it's website which can be used to gather information about a user. Some items require two factor authentication but once a SMS has been sent an attacker could call and simply ask for the code. Are they prepay or Contract? URL: ...

With the launch of Android-Zenoss.info earlier in the month the Beta testing period started. This morning the new version of Rhybudd - Zenoss for Android was published and can be downloaded from the market. The new version required a total overhaul of the UI, a new home screen, caching to allow 'instant' access, widgets, improved background polling and many other improvements such as; Past 8 hours events count bar graph widget Current Zenoss Event count widget SSL support Dock mode Instant access caching Move to SD support Zenoss Event log management Online ...

Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He's completely single-minded and has no regard for the political process. The more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry and the more aggressive his supporters become. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of national security. At first, it's believed to be a search for oil and is pursued without regard to its cost. However, the true goal of this project is power. Complete and total hegemonic domination. ...

Today [03/04/11] I attempted to upload a new app to the Android Market but received a 404. Bemused by this I started to dig a little bit... Visiting https://market.android.com/publish usually redirects via a 302 to https://market.android.com/publish/Home but this returns a 404. I attempted to add an additional /home to the URL and then the page partially loaded; Pulling up Firebug we can see that the CSS and javascript resources are relative; <link rel="stylesheet" href="gwt/client2.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="gwt/devsite.css" ...

I recently secured a bargain on Ebay getting a Cisco 5505 Advanced Security Appliance for only £200 which a fry cry from their prices back in late 2008 (~£600) so instantly set about increasing the security of my IPv6 LAN. Most Networks consist of a LAN and a WAN segment, unfortunately due to my previous IPv6 work and the inherant nature of IPv6 the LAN also has public Global Unicast addresses secured via rather crude RRAS filters. To increase the security of the LAN I need a firewall with seperate IPv4 and a IPv6 interfaces and a dual stack LAN interface. interface Vlan1 nameif ...

Looking through one of my smaller 2008 dual IPv4 & IPv6 installations I noticed that in the IPv6 section the FQDN in the name column had artefacts. Weirdness. ...

I'm currently experimenting with embedded systems for use as Airsoft Props (think Capture the Flag, Defuse the IED etc) and after starting off with an Atom mini-itx board (with SSD IDE chip) (£450 prototype) to an ARM based SBC (£325 prototype) I've settled on the Stalker from Seeduino which has an RTC, zigbee chip support, lots of DIO, MicroSD support and more. Best of all the prototypes are now down to around £75 a throw (84% saving!). Unfortunately this saving comes at a cost of a lack of native serial / USB support for writing to the onboard chip. This is easily achievable with a ...

My first dabble with IPv6 was back in late 2008 when I experimented with Dual Stack DHCP in the RC of Windows Server 2008. Now that IPv6 is enabled by default in all of the OS's I use in my home (Fedora, Windows 2008 & Windows 7) I decided to go back and check my traffic graphs and the results surprised me. There was a spike in Oct '08 when I was first experimenting with IPv6 and visiting as many native IPv6 sites as I could and then it tailed off as one would expect. Interestingly the traffic started to pick up again in July of 2009 and in the 2 years of having IPv6 Internet ...

Microsoft have continued the trend of going x64 all the way and 2008 R2 is 64bit only. The first thing we need to do is install the pre-requisites via a privileged PowerShell; Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,ADLDS -Restart Once the machine has restarted you will need to ensure you set the machine name and a DNS suffix. Assuming the checks all work you can click install and off you go; Once all is installed the next step is to prepare a config bundle / auth package (I can't quite remember what Microsoft call ...

This is really easy to do but I wanted to publish it on the off chance that more people might get involved with the excellent work done by the guys over at jogglerwiki.info. The first thing to do is to create a custom AVD that reflects the hardware feature set and resolution of the Joggler. To do this load up the Android SDK and AVD Manager (Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager ) and then select New. Once that is done you will want to add a friendly name, choose the target to be Android 1.5 (the prebuilt Joggler image is 1.5 at the moment.) I've set an SD Target to be 2Gb ...