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Archive for May 19th, 2017

~650-thousand accounts exposed because of md5 hashing: Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts | ZDNet

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19

Over 98 percent of the passwords were cracked, thanks to the site’s poor password security.

No this isn’t just the hacked font

Source: [WayBackFont sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts | ZDNet

via: [Archive.isFont Sharing Site DaFont Has Been Hacked, Exposing Thousands of Accounts – Slashdot

–jeroen

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Posted in Encryption, Hashing, md5, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19

[Archive.is] Working Windows XP & 7 demos. #FRENCHMAFIA: WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies:

TL;DR;

DO NOT REBOOT your infected machines and TRY wanakiwi ASAP*!

*ASAP because prime numbers may be over written in memory after a while.

Via:[WayBack] A French researcher says he’s found a tool that could help some fraction of victims running that older Windows version. Just don’t reboot!  WannaCry Ransomware Victims Might Have Some Hope–If They’re on Windows XP | WIRED

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my development…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19

An interesting discussion on Xeon based 2nd hand systems that are way cheaper than new ones:

[WayBack] People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my development platforms (and indeed more). I want to cover what I use, why I use them, … – Alan Cox – Google+

I still run a couple of HP XW6600 workstations with [WayBackE5420 processors (of the [WayBackHarpertown family) to host VMs on. Works splendid.

–jeroen

Source: [People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my developmen…1919

Posted in Hardware, HP XW6600, LifeHacker, Power User, Virtualization | Leave a Comment »

ESXi 4.0.0.Update01-208167 Whitebox on HP xw6600: success!

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19

Boy, I totally forgot to post this. It runs also ESXi 5.x; I’ve not tried more recent ESXi versions as they just run fine.

As a follow-up on [WayBackVMware Communities: ESX 3.5 Whitebox on HP xw6600 …, I have installed ESXi 4.0.0.Update01-208167 on a HP XW6600 workstation.

Good news: the generic ESXi 4 installation works, whereas the HP specific ESXi 4 fails (you get a nice purple screen of death).

[WayBackhttp://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Hardware, HP XW6600, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »