Ad Skipping

Found a nice little PC World magazine article titled, 5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets. I’m already in love with one of the tips that involves adding  some much needed functionality to my cable remote.

You see, with some remotes (including mine!) it turns out to be incredibly simple to turn on ad skipping

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IIS 6 Fix – Don’t Give Out the Internal IP Address

I got dinged on an external penetration test against one of my web servers last week. It was deemed a low priority, but it needed to be fixed. It seems that it was rather easy to get the internal IP address of the server:

Well oops! (nc = netcat in the illustration above)

It’s actually an easy

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Firefox Extension of the Week: UrlParams

Yesterday we had a bit of a security “incident” at the day job. The fix was relatively straight-forward (I wasn’t the fixer), and when completed I was tasked with determining if the fix was sufficient and if there was anything else obviously insecure.

It had been a long day, it was late, and my

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Google Analytics Hack

It’s great to know that I’m not the only one a bit miffed by how Google Analytics displays referrers.  In fact, I recall mentioning it recently.

Now there’s a hack.  It’s a bit ugly… but it’ll work if you don’t mind adding an onload event to your <body> tag.

As an aside, the FeedBurner Statistics

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