Day: December 12, 2012

Geek Software of the Week: Uniform Server!

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Uniform ServerThis is a truly different, and useful GSotW! It allows you to easily run a WAMP environment which you can use to run, test, and build a web server that will allow you to build and test web applications, which can then be moved to production servers. Pretty cool stuff!

Uniform Server – A lightweight mobile WAMP Server Solution

“The Uniform Server is a lightweight server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS. Less than 10MiB, it includes the latest versions of Apache2, Perl5, PHP5, MySQL5, phpMyAdmin and more. No installation required! No registry dust! Just unpack and fire up! The Uniform Server is a WAMP solution that allows you to run a web server on any Microsoft Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server.

The miniServers are separate servers in their own right however they are based on the Uniform Server control architecture. The Uniform Server PHP MiniServer provides a graphical user interface to the PHP 5.4.* built-in web server.

Comprehensive Security

All applications are set to the highest security setting for a production live server.

Mobile

Run it live straight out of your USB stick on any PC. No installation or registry dust involved.

Updates

Updates are rolled out with the latest release of each application & components.

Settings

Easily change and manage your server settings.

Logs

Preset for logs and error logs.

Help & Support

A Support Community to help when you need it.

Tin Foil Hat Time!

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All right you conspiracy theory guys! It is time to celebrate weirdness! Are you ready?!? Today is officially 12/12/12! AND, there is a “New Moon” meaning 0% illuminated, and the moon is 363,549 km from Earth today! Which is 225,899 miles. Huh? How cool is that? Wanna make something of it?

Plus, a 16 foot asteroid JUST missed hitting earth on Tuesday! Check it out!

A 16-foot asteroid narrowly missed Earth by a mere 8,900 miles on Tuesday morning

And, thanks to the amazing power of spelling checkers on computers, 1 out of 5 kids will get a visit from “satan” this year for Christmas! Is it a weird time, or what?

Another Nasty Internet Explorer Problem!

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A friend of mine says IE is the “safest browser on the Internet”… yeah, right! No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it is still a pig! Move to Chrome, or Firefox. Just sayin’!

IE flaw allows attackers, advertisers to track cursor movement

“A software engineer from online analytics company Spider.io is claiming that a security flaw in Internet Explorer 6-10 could allow attackers or advertisers to track user’s mouse movements, potentially compromising data entered via virtual keyboards.

Nick Johnson, who previously worked for Google before joining Spider.io, posted details of the flaw on the Bugtraq mailing list this morning.

‘Internet Explorer’s event model populates the global Event object with some attributes relating to mouse events, even in situations where it should not. Combined with the ability to trigger events manually using the fireEvent() method, this allows JavaScript in any web page (or in any iframe within any web page) to poll for the position of the mouse cursor anywhere on the screen and at any time — even when the tab containing the page is not active, or when the Internet Explorer window is unfocused or minimized.’

Knowing the position of the cursor has significant ramifications for authentication systems that use a virtual keyboard as a means to circumvent keyloggers. Virtual keyboards that randomize key placement would likely be unaffected.

Johnson also believes that it would be relatively trivial for an attacker to use the flaw on high-traffic and generally trusted sites by purchasing advertising space on popular sites.

“Through today’s ad exchanges, any site from YouTube to the New York Times is a possible attack vector. Indeed, the vulnerability is already being exploited by at least two display ad analytics companies across billions of web page impressions each month.”

The nature of the flaw means that the tracking of cursor movements is not simply restricted to Internet Explorer either. According to Johnson, so long as the page remains open, even if it has been placed in a background tab or the entire Internet Explorer application is minimized, it will continue to log movements.”