Should there be a Security Industry
by Webantix on Feb.10, 2009, under Security
I know that for most people reading that headline are shouting already of course there has to be!!
Hey, if there was no security industry myself and a lot of my friends will be out of work. The reason why I have raised the question is not because I think it is pointless trying to secure systems that will always be insecure. It’s because why are systems insecure in the first place. (continue reading…)
Editing the Netshare group size limit set by PGP
by Webantix on Jan.09, 2009, under Linux, PGP
PGP’s Netshare product which encrypts windows folders and files has a limit on it that for some companies be a pain in the backside. Basically you can allow a group of users to all be able to encrypt and decrypt files and folders but if that group for a certain folder is over 50 PGP errors. There is a good reason for this error as if this is higher and you use PGP Universal to proxy your mail too it can slow down mail by a significant amount. But, if your company only uses PGP Universal to manage Netshare you can increase this number by quite a bit. I have personally increased this to 300 users and had no issues (touch wood).
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Zebedee’s SMTP Tester
by Webantix on Nov.04, 2008, under Linux, Scripts
On a day to day basis I have to run tests on certain mail servers. The main test I use is to telnet onto port 25 and manually creating the mail by hand to see where it fails. Because of always forgetting either the commands or correct order of them I decided to write a basic SMTP test bash script. (continue reading…)
TomTom to work on Linux and Kismet
by Webantix on Aug.04, 2008, under Hacking, Wireless
I have for a while known how to war drive but did not want to go out and buy a special GPS unit to be able to when I have a Tom Tom sitting on the shelf doing basically the same just not willing to pass on the details to my PC.



