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Just got bump this terminology, The "whaling attack"

So I got this recently a new terminology called as "Whaling Attack"? Whaling attack is similarly same as with other phishing attack but its target is going to the big fish, which is the CEO, CFO, or COO in the company or in a large organization. Its purpose is to lure and deceive the victim using an e-mail or other multi-media sources that could lead the victim to think that this data is a valid information and that he/she is required to respond at least to the destination source where the attacker innovate to make thing it's a legit destination, for example an e-mail address, SMS, or maybe through a social media, which is actually kinda stupid to think of, but still a valid source. In many whaling phishing attacks, the attacker's goal is to manipulate the victim into authorizing high-value wire transfers to the attacker. The term whaling stems from the size of the attacks, and the whales are thought to be picked based on their authority within the company. Du

Use tracepath instead of traceroute

Just wanted to note myself of this one, $ tracepath 210.213.128.14 1: centos (10.0.1.19) 0.094ms pmtu 1500 1: maximum (10.0.1.1) 1.327ms 1: maximum (10.0.1.1) 1.866ms 2: dsl.49.145.0.1.pldt.net (49.145.0.1) 55.341ms 3: 122.2.135.37.pldt.net (122.2.135.37) 50.527ms 4: 210.213.135.17.static.pldt.net (210.213.135.17) 73.554ms 5: 210.213.128.62.static.pldt.net (210.213.128.62) 79.921ms 6: 210.213.129.33.static.pldt.net (210.213.129.33) 83.518ms 7: 210.213.128.45.static.pldt.net (210.213.128.45) 71.558ms 8: 210.213.131.93.static.pldt.net (210.213.131.93) 71.437ms asymm 9 9: 210.213.128.14.static.pldt.net (210.213.128.14) 211.873ms reached Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 9 back 247 tracepath can be run without the need of any super user privileges.

Is RAID 0 still beneficial or not?

Hmmm, I have no idea about this but if anyone might read about this, please check http://tweakers.net/reviews/515/1/raid-0-hype-or-blessing-raid-0-hype-or-blessing.html That article is so very old but if you have a raid-0 setup either with SSD's in a RAID 0 setup vs SSD itself, any benchmark result you have, please share.

OSX VPN send all traffic over VPN via route command

Base on this inputs from stackoverflow , sudo /sbin/route add -host pandora.com -interface ppp0 In this example, "pandora.com" is the host that should be routed via the VPN and "ppp0" is the name of the VPN network interface (ifconfig shows you the list of network interfaces).

Useful utilities in Linux

Anyhow, this is just a list of useful utilities which I'm going to always keep updated... strace http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/11/strace-examples/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace http://timetobleed.com/files/c-strace gdb http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gdb/ http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GDB-Commands.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gilpin/tutorial/ hexdump http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1293523 http://mylinuxbook.com/hexdump/ http://256.com/gray/docs/misc/hexdump_manual_how_to.html chattr/lsattr http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-password-trick.html

Problem with YAML in Perl

I have no idea why this fix but I was installing MySQLSandbox with an error occurred but this link helps me solve it, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/problem-in-upgrading-cpan-918683/ Anyhow, to be particular, this one helps me solve the problem $ su - # cpan # cpan> install Bundle::CPAN # cpan> reload cpan # cpan> exit

Setting global environment in Mac OS X

I just wanted to quote myself on setting the environment variable in Mac OS X. From, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x This is stated as, 1) Open a terminal prompt 2) Type  sudo vi /etc/launchd.conf  (note: this file might not yet exist) 3) Put contents like the following into the file # Set environment variables here so they are available globally to all apps # (and Terminal), including those launched via Spotlight. # # After editing this file run the following command from the terminal to update # environment variables globally without needing to reboot. # NOTE: You will still need to restart the relevant application (including # Terminal) to pick up the changes! # grep -E "^setenv" /etc/launchd.conf | xargs -t -L 1 launchctl # # See http://www.digitaledgesw.com/node/31 # and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x/ # # Note that you must hardcode the paths below, don't u