So after 6 years I finally got a new desktop PC. Techbargains had a great deal on a new XPS 300; I can post more on those deets later. Needless to say I was a little excited to pick up my new machine today at FedEx. I had a convo with @InstKamra at work today [...]
Lifehacker clued me into creepy tonight. I’m running Ubuntu 10.4 and couldn’t compile, so I booted into Windows and installed the win32 version. I’m simultaneously impressed and ‘creeped’ out, it works amazingly well, and I only trolled my twitter account. I’m currently trying to creep famous world leaders. Oh, and today my doc nonchalantly checked [...]
So, regarding this encrypted PDF… I researched multiple articles. I tried strong PDF editing tools… no dice due to the encryption. So I researched again. More articles. Downloaded one package- no dice. Downloaded another package and ran it from the command line: jktuxbox@tuxbox:~$ cd _Temp/ jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp$ cd da4651/ jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp/da4651$ ls da4651_r.pdf jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp/da4651$ pdfcrack da4651_r.pdf PDF [...]
Partly because its relative to an upcoming work project and partly because it’s just plain fun, I’m playing around with new vulnerability scanning tools this morning. My focus at the moment is expanding my knowledge of web application scanners. I’m pretty well-versed with WebInspect but naturally I’m interested in open source tools, for cost and [...]