haqs
How to get beyond mindless blindness - every-day social engineering
Is everybody being deceptive?
When we're not there, we aren't there to know that we're not there.

I recently listened to the 7th episode of the Social Engineering podcast. - That made me take some notes, and I think I remember some quotes.
In short it was simply about using familiar routines - or those routines which should be familiar - in order to successfully blind somebody else's mind into a routine workflow.
The story of website password generators
That's a good PW generator. There're others.
A lesson learned
A lesson a co-worker, Bob, learned recently was: never trust. He's a security minded and competent administrator and specialized at security. However - something we have in common: lazy.
When Bob recently created a bunch of new passwords, he used a website, created an account, and what's very convenient: all the generated passwords are stored in a table. He added some usernames and used the website a while. There're password recovery functions. A real work-saver, however the setup is not local and does not belong to the company.
A Paimei tutorial - simple heap-traceing - part 2
Abstract
The following tutorial builds on the basics which are documented in the first part. For vulnerability discovery, debugging and fuzzing are essential. Furthermore the proper knowledge of memory management, assembly instructions and Python will still be needed. You cannot just scratch the surface while trying to explore these techniques. I wrote this tutorial to inspire people, or to help people coping with Windows and its restrictions. But most people in the fields will laugh at this and call it primitive. It is.
Windows 7 on a MacBook - dude, WTF?
Yes, it works! How to make the possible easier
Normally on a MacBook you'd expect lots of compatibility issues. However this is not the case.
You just get "Error 2229" if you're going to install the standard BootCamp drivers. Well... here's an unofficial patch. It's using the old install trick: the installer has been extracted, the checkup has been modified, and it has been repacked. Without any guarantee - but it works. Afterwards use the official Vista update. That's it.
So fast - so weekly: a week of reading

funny japanese wireless toilet control (source)
I just thought - because there's enough to read for everybody in IT security at the moment: keep this short and just list the stuff with some tiny little annotations.

