Archive for HIDS

to the Wordpress dev team : why not just sign it digitally?!

I was rather perplexed when I read the latest wordpress 2.1.3 release post. Therein, the dev team reported that they’ve taken the trouble reviewing the code base for security enhancements and whatnot. In an eh-by-the-way style P.S.,  an update was provided for the recent code tainting led by server account compromise. Read the rest of this entry »

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how to extract audio tracks from a CD and convert to MP3 under FC6

My son scrubbed one of his favorite music CDs with his oily hands last night. Destruction by love :) I couldn’t play the CD for him on a regular CD player any more. In hope that I may have better luck extracting the audio tracks off the CD, I popped the CD into a Fedora Core Linux 6 desktop, to extract the audio tracks from the CD and convert them to MP3. Read the rest of this entry »

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new : RPMs for Fedora Core 6 (tripwire & Hobbit Monitor)

A few useful RPMS have been built for Fedora Core 6/i386. They are avaiable for download here. For now, this includes Tripwire ( a HIDS) and Hobbit Monitor, a GPLed scalable NMS.

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