You’ve been developing web applications using PHP for a couple months now and are finding it very enjoyable. Although you feel that you’re doing quite good, you’re not sure whether its the end. If that’s the scenario, then this post if for YOU. - Wes Justice
If you don't need the files piling up on your desktop and just want to paste a picture somewhere, pressing Control + Command + Shift + 3 for a full screenshot (or 4 for cross hair selection tool). The screenshots will be copied to the clipboard where you can paste them into a document. - Wes Justice
With the help of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score every blog on Memeorandum based on their linking activity in the last three months. Then I wrote a Greasemonkey script to pull that information out of Google Spreadsheets, and colorize Memeorandum on-the-fly. Left-leaning blogs are blue and right-leaning blogs are red, with darker colors representing strong biases. Check out the screenshot below, and install the Greasemonkey script or standalone Firefox extension to try it yourself. - Wes Justice
In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected. If the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within two years of the original date of purchase, a repair will be done free of charge, even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty. - Wes Justice
You might be surprised by how many good free ebook sites there are out there. Nowadays, you can find pretty much any popular (and not) book online. You just need to know where to look. Here are my favorite ebook sites. - Wes Justice
Like its predecessor, Better Gmail 2 is a compilation of Greasemonkey user scripts that add features to Gmail, but Better Gmail 2 works with Gmail's overhauled interface. - Wes Justice
Elegant, crisp, and colorful. Camifox is a thoughtful, sophisticated reimagination and realization of a better "default" theme for Firefox 3, in living color on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. - Wes Justice
Drupal Code Search helps you find Drupal code easier! Search source code from thousands of Drupal modules and themes. Use the power of regular expressions to find exactly what you need. Easily restrict results to specific Drupal versions and programming languages. Results provided by the Google Code Search API. - Wes Justice
This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. New tabs opened from links (or etc.) are automatically attached to the current tab. If you often use many many tabs, it will help your web browsing because you can understand relations of tabs. - Wes Justice
Nmap is the definitive port scanner. If you have any need for this sort of tool it would behoove you to become familiar with at least the basics of this most excellent application. - Wes Justice
Scalp! is a log analyzer for the Apache web server that aims to look for security problems. The main idea is to look through huge log files and extract the possible attacks that have been sent through HTTP/GET (By default, Apache does not log the HTTP/POST variable). - Wes Justice
Tons of audio/video content from various security conferences (Black Hat, DEFCON, DeepSec, Hack in The Box, HOPE, SchmooCon, ToorCon, etc). - Wes Justice
In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Drupal-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Drupal. This post covers essential resources related to Drupal — the basics, modules, Drupal design inspiration, Drupal themes, tutorials, starter themes, blog editors and Drupal-projects. - Wes Justice
I'm always looking for a tool to map the traffic to or from a host with the process receiving or sending it. Today I noticed that Microsoft Network Monitor offers a beta that appears to have the functionality, according to this Netmon blog post. I visited the Netmon site on Microsoft Connect (registration required) to download beta 3.2. I ran two live capture tests to see what Netmon 3.2 beta would report. - Wes Justice
The Open Source Network Gateway The best open source projects, integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more - Wes Justice
NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis and to regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files. - Wes Justice
DAVIX, a live CD for data analysis and visualization, brings the most important free tools for data processing and visualization to your desk. There is no hassle with installing an operating system or struggle to build the necessary tools to get started with visualization. You can completely dedicate your time to data analysis. The DAVIX CD is based on SLAX and features broad out-of-the-box hardware support for graphic cards and network adapters. SLAX is based on Slackware and follows a modularized approach. Thus, the SLAX ISO image can easily be customized for various purposes. It can even be installed on USB sticks and provide you with mobile analysis capabilities. - Wes Justice
Currently only for MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, some ORACLE and some PostgreSQL. Most of samples are not correct for every single situation. Most of the real world environments may change because of parenthesis, different code bases and unexpected, strange SQL sentences. Samples are provided to allow reader to get basic idea of a potential attack and almost every section includes a brief information about itself. - Wes Justice
Grendel-Scan is an open-source web application security testing tool. It has automated testing module for detecting common web application vulnerabilities, and features geared at aiding manual penetration tests. The only system requirement is Java 5; Windows, Linux and Macintosh builds are available. - Wes Justice
After a weekend of googling (which came back with few results) and making contact with some of the speakers, I provide you with a mostly accurate list of “stuff” that was released at DEFCON this year. - Wes Justice
At Fyodor’s talk last week at Blackhat he talked about the research he’s been doing, and the ways that research has helped him to improve Nmap. I was lucky enough to attend, and even got to chat with him briefly and get a signed copy of his new book. Anyway, after receiving numerous complaints over the years regarding performance, he did some colossal scans of the Internet in order to see how Nmap handled extremely large address ranges. What follows is a collection of the most interesting features he added, and information he learned, while doing his research. - Wes Justice
Download the Defcon16 ISO here. Its packed full of the slides OF ALL the talks, along with the software used to hack Joe Grand’s Defcon16 Badge - Wes Justice
This guide is an updated version of the Securing Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) and includes the new security features offered by Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). - Wes Justice
del.izzy is a free service that lets you search through your del.icio.us bookmarks. It lets you search through all content, including title, description and page content, for all your bookmarks. - Wes Justice
Finally, in Safari 3.1, Apple has provided us with a hidden feature that forces every single web page to open links in new tabs when you ask it to. - Wes Justice
ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. - Wes Justice
