Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/06
DNS traffic within corporate networks should also be considered a channel that an attacker can use to implement a fully functional, bidirectional C2 infrastructure.
Source: [WayBack] Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group Blog: Covert Channels and Poor Decisions: The Tale of DNSMessenger
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/03
I wonder if this applies to Europe as well as the USA: [WayBack] The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year 2017 – Lifehacker
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/03
Because the battery was getting very bad:
Note the battery adhesive was so strong that one of my plastic opening tools broke.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/03
Yes it is compatible: [WayBack] Andreas @AndyHTech: Following More Why is there no #IDEFixPack for #Delphi Berlin 10.1 Update 2 ? Just use the one that was released for the RTM version, it works for Up1&Up2.
via: David Heffernan on [WayBack] Is the IDE Fix Pack 5.95 compatible with Delphi 10.1 Update 2? I mean it’s not explicitly mentioned so I’m assuming not, but I’m asking just in case.I… – Asbjørn Heid – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/03
Apple TV needs iTunes
A while ago, my model A1469 3rd generation Apple TV had a slowly blinking white light but nothing displayed over HDMI any more, so I searched for Apple TV slow blinking white and
Reading Restoring your Apple TV (when its white light is flashing) | Comics and gadgets, I opted for the first option: a soft-restart of the Apple TV. To do that you have to press menu+down on the Apple Remote at the same time for 5+ seconds, then wait for the Apple TV to restart. That initially did show an image over HDMI which later disappeared. I didn’t get the image at first as I thought it was looking for iTunes media over USB (like from an iPhone or iPad), so I waited for a time-out to occur.
After a while that image disappeared and the Apple TV white LED started rapidly flashing. Not good.
Later I found the image was portraying a USB cable not having a connection to an iTunes logo and some dark grey text on a black background pointing to support.apple.com/appletv/restore.
I didn’t see that at first as the room was a bit brightly lit since we had a lot of sun that day so this non-descriptive image with grey on black UX worked really well.
Conclusion: I had to restore the Apple TV which I thought would be straight-forward as it had been connected to my iCloud account.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02
Anybody of my followers who can provide a good comparison between [WayBack] Ammyy Admin – Remote Desktop Sharing and TeamViewer?
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02
Interesting: [Archive.is] KPN LoRa om Van Raam fietsen te traceren Zakelijk KPN Forum via [WayBack] Nederlands bedrijf komt met narrowband-internet-of-things-ontwikkelbordje – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02
Just in case it’s not enabled yet: How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
It even has some html to redirect to it, which I’ve replaced with the wayback machine (and put into a gist as WordPress kills noscript tag blocks and everything they contain.
| <noscript> | |
| For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. | |
| Here are the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160402005258/http://www.enable-javascript.com/" target="_blank"> | |
| instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser</a>. | |
| </noscript> |
I needed it as at a client site, one of the embedded devices would show the message “Javascript is required to use this web portal” in various web browsers so I had to check the JavaScript status in each browser.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/01
Every time I need to use JavaScript there’s this tiny voice in the back of my head “Please don’t”, for instance because of
JavaScript has two sets of equality operators:
===and!==, and their evil twins==and!=.
This time it did it again: I used JavaScript. My need was to verify a basic URI in JavaScript, so I wrote this function based on RFC 3986 [WayBack] which in Appendix B has a nice regular expression: ^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?
function isValidUri(uri){
var uriRegExPattern = "^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?";
var uriRegEx = new RegExp(uriRegExPattern);
return (uriRegEx.test(uri));
}
It would crash. But JavaScript is JavaScript, so even a site like JSFiddle wouldn’t show an error (later I found out that enabling the console on http://jsbin.com/wamavacuco/edit?html,console,output does show the error in the console complete with stack trace).
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