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Firebird 0.7 and Flat Things

by | Oct 15, 2003 | Usefull Things

I have been a bit busy sorting out the new flat but think I am finally getting there, my new study is nicely settled now and I can close the door on the humming of machines. I have also minimized the amount of machines I have – less noise etc.
The big news for today is all about Mozilla releasing a new Firebird, Thunderbird and Mozilla Suite. I am very glad to see a new Firebird arrive and I hope they will soon work on a better install/upgrade method.

Quicksilver Metaweb

by | Oct 7, 2003 | Usefull Things

While reading Quicksilver I was looking for some on-line information about certain sections of the book and came across a wiki set-up by Neal Stephenson as a collection of annotations by page number as well as a sizable collection of other usefull resources to people who are reading this book.
I am currently around page 150 and so far I am loving this book.

Overflow Guard

by | Oct 3, 2003 | Usefull Things

I noticed via Bugtraq and NT Bugtraq release from Data Security Software of a free Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 Stack Guard for personal use, it essentially makes the stack on various services non-executable and thereby prevents from unknown vulnerabilities taking you out especially in IE and Outlook.

OverflowGuard 1.0 is now released. Buffer overflows are an easy way for hackers to gain access into a system. Traditionally the only way to protect your Windows system against buffer overflows was to install a patch from the vendor after the vulnerability was known. This left a period of time when hackers could break into your system regardless of how quickly you installed vendor patches. OverflowGuard has changed this. It protects almost every service on a Windows NT 4 / 2000 / XP / 2003 computer against buffer overflow exploit attempts. In the Unix world buffer overflow protection programs have existed for years. Unfortunately, due to the complexities of implementing such a program in Windows, no reliable buffer overflow protection has been available until now.

This sounds great, the download link is a simple no-frills download without any personal details being collected, kudos to them for that – all you have to do is agree to some fairly generic License Agreement.
UPDATE: They have now removed the Free one from their site and instead offers a 30 day edition. Silly Buggers.