http://www.bkenny.com/blog The life of Brian Kenny Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:17:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SQL injection attacks are becoming more and more of an issue. The trouble is, some companies may have old systems vulnerable to injection attacks and to apply fixes to that code to ensure its security may take weeks of development. How do you create a safe guard stop gap between those ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/08/27/stop-gap-for-sql-injection-attacks-under-iis-url-scan/ I don't know if this is a common issue or not. However, for some reason, some websites on my mac will not load. An example is www.mneylon.com. I have tried in both Safari and Firefox 3, it just seems to hang with the 'Connecting to www.mneylon.com...' in the status bar. It becomes ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/08/19/dns-issues-in-mac-os-x/ A lot of chatter is on the DNS exploit that is active at the moment. The majority of servers have been patched however I found a great tool created by IANA on the Blacknight Blog. Should you wish to check to see if your name servers are exploitable - just type ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/08/11/poisoned-dns/ Since I picked up my new mac, I have always wanted to get the smackbook hack working. Until tonight I havn't actually bothered. So - what's involved ? I've compressed all the files you indeed, which you can download here. Place both into the same folder. Then change the permissions on the smackleopard.command ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/07/17/swap-desktops-the-mac-way/ It finally happened, I've been trying to move www.bkenny.com to a new server for quiet some time. The main reason being disk space. I have quiet alot of photos etc that I am going to be placing on the blog. The previous shared hosting account from blacknight just wasn't big enough. ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/07/17/server-move/ I have always been a fan of great creativity. I have been sent this advertisement today and find it to be one of the few that have really caught my eye. Today's market focuses to much on getting the brand name across and not dwelling to much on the fact ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/07/03/creative-imaginations/ Ever wonder how to get your full directory tree into a text file in Mac OS X or any unix or linux env for that matter. Paul from irc.linux.ie came up with a great way of doing it from one simple command: find / > ~/tree.txt http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/06/17/full-directory-listing-in-mac-os-x/ Last Saturday my wonderful and amazing girlfriend organised a brilliant birthday bash for me. It involved, heading up to johnny foxs, meeting all my closest friends. Drinking lovely guinness and chatting and having lovely muscles. Then into a disco bus, everything getting smashed against windows and drinking champagne etc. Off the ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/06/16/birthday-bash/ After using PC's all my life, I am very familiar with their habits of breaking and general annoyances etc. So - I finally decided to do something about it and move to the dark side. Last Thursday, I picked up my brand spanking new Macbook Pro. Boy is this thing ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/06/15/the-darkside/ I previously brought www.menupages.ie the ability to be served out via IPv6. There was plenty of support for the task from the guys at blacknight. A range was associated to Page 7 Media and now we have www.menupages.ie up and running correctly and full time. What happened previously? The answer is not ... http://www.bkenny.com/blog/2008/06/11/wwwmenupagesie-becomes-ipv6-again/