Month: August 2018

  • Tales from the road: the one with the couples massage

    Tales from the road: the one with the couples massage

    Another trip to china, this time escorted (we have a sales person based in HK). We go and do some meetings. Afterwards we go to dinner, he takes me to a mahjong  place, we sit in a back room which is isolated and has a bell you ring for service. He explains to me that…

  • Your cloud firewall is sleeping on the job: the (new) Apache struts vulnerability

    Your cloud firewall is sleeping on the job: the (new) Apache struts vulnerability

    In 2016 a vulnerability came to light in Apache struts, a common framework used in Java-based web-apps. In it an attacker could malform a header (really any header) and end up taking over your Java VM. Not so good. E.g. you were one curl away from badness. Well, another struts issue arrived. Same sort of…

  • T-mobile data breach: it continues to be what you don’t expect

    T-mobile data breach: it continues to be what you don’t expect

    Earlier I wrote about data breaches and the false assurance we are given. In that article, I was warning about personal data and sim-card porting. E.g. someone calls your phoneco, pretends to be you, gets a sim card w/ your number, then calls the bank and pretends to be you forgetting your password and they…

  • Use vim to open the line from gdb (or gcc err output)

    Use vim to open the line from gdb (or gcc err output)

    This might be kind of specific. But… We’ve all been there. There’s a backtrace as long as a CVS receipt in your gdb window. mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin wget -O ~/.vim/plugin/file_line.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bogado/file-line/master/plugin/file_line.vim And now you can: vi source/common/http/http1/conn_pool.cc:79 like a boss. You’re welcome.

  • Tales from the road: bait? really? Is that the correct translation? kräftskiva!

    Tales from the road: bait? really? Is that the correct translation? kräftskiva!

    On a trip to Sweden in August, I’m at an outdoor cafe. Now, Sweden, like most of the Nordics, people in the big cities tend to speak English very well, with very easy to understand accents, and Stockholm is no exception. So when the waiter hands me the menu and its all in Swedish, I…