Wednesday, December 18, 2013

OpenSSL: verify a windows code signing cert on linux

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HOWTO test the signing chain of a windows code signing cert. You'll probably need to convert it to pem first: openssl pkcs12 -in signi...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10 with encrypted root on a UEFI HP Envy 15-j085nr

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I recently went through the pain of creating a Windows/Linux dual boot, here are some rough notes for the benefits of others. Since the HP ...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Disable Find My Mac by Modifiying Nvram Configuration

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`When Find My Mac (FMM) is enabled, it writes information into the Mac's nvram. This enables the configuration to persist across OS-lev...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Exceptions.plist: interesting tweaks, including Gatekeeper forced opt-in

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The Exceptions.plist is quite interesting: defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist ...

BIOS malware

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Interesting recent developments on the BIOS malware front. MITRE delivered Copernicus and this blackhat talk , and Dragos Ruiu is on the t...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

OS X XProtect

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XProtect is Apple’s built-in AV system for OS X. I took at look at it on 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Virus definitions are stored in a simple fo...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Python: object container's __str__ calls __repr__ for the objects it contains

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This should look familiar: In [6]: class NewShiny(object): def __str__(self): return "something readable" ...: I...