Network Security Breaches at NASA

Bruce Schneier points to an article at BusinessWeek about repeated attacks on the NASA networks and successful intrusions. The article also mentions a possible connection of the problem of ROSAT pointing too close to the sun in September 1998 to such attacks.

Blog u.a. per IPv6

Seit gestern sind u.a. dieses Blog, der Planet Göttingen und auch der Mailserver für vorlons.info per IPv6 zu erreichen. Realisiert ist die Anbindung mit Hilfe eines Tunnels von SixXS.

Neues Blog im Planet

Mit patzi.de ist nun mittlerweile das achte Blog auf dem Planet Göttingen zu finden.

Über weitere Neuzugänge freu ich mich natürlich immer… also Hinweise einfach per Mail oder Kommentar.

Thunderbird: Reply to List

Mozilla Thunderbird lacking a reply-to-list function is quite annoying sometimes and is often worked around by using a patched version with an extension.

Recently while looking at extensions, I came across one which does not require a patched version, but also works with the regular binary. It is still considered experimental, but has worked well for me on one binary installation of Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 I’m using.

IT Cheat Sheets

Found some useful IT- especially network-related cheat sheets over at Packetlife

[via ISC]