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Hackfest 2010

November 9, 2010 Patrick Roy

I really appreciated my two days at Hackfest 2010.

In my opinion, two speakers stood out of the crowd:

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Security

I’ll be attending the Hackfest 2010 event

October 29, 2010 Patrick Roy

I’m happy to go to the HackFest 2010 security conference in Quebec City this November 5 and 6. Some presentation will surely be interesting and I’ll also be meeting friends and colleagues in the security community. This time, I’ll try to stay later to see the hacking contest.… Read the rest

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Password Exploitation Class

September 11, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

Fresh Coconut
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I’ve just found this page with free security class covering password exploitation tools. The content is distributed as 3 freely downloadable videos. I’m looking forward to listen to them as they covers specialized tools like Hashcat, OCLHashcat, Cain, SAMDump2, Nir’s Password Recovery Tools, Password Renew, the popular Backtrack and others.

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Internet Service Provider’s are stealing us!

September 10, 2010 Patrick Roy 2 Comments

Passage of Time I
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ISP are, like their name implies, Internet providers and shouldn’t charge for traffic that doesn’t reach the Internet!

Passage of Time I
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Rant, Security

Facebook privacy is a joke

September 9, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment
Key
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With all the latest buzz around Facebook’s privacy issues, one would think that Facebook would be safe to use now but it isn’t.

When you post a photo on Facebook and only allow family members to see it,  you expect it to be off-limits for the rest of the world.… Read the rest

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Reading news, the simple and fast way

September 1, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

As an information security professional I need to keep up to date on emerging trends and newly discovered vulnerability’s. Reading news is the only way to do it and, in the past, was very complicated to do efficiently.

The very old way of receiving news on the Internet was to give your email address to a mailing list owner and he would send you emails containing news.… Read the rest

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Flash Player will start dying soon

May 11, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

I predict that Adobe Flash usefulness will start to slowly decline as soon as Mozilla Firefox 4 gets released. … Read the rest

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I bought an overheating motherboard!

April 29, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

Some months ago I build a custom HTPC with an ASUS motherboard (model P5N7A-VM). I never had any problem with it until I hooked it up to my TV using a resolution of 1080P. While playing Eve-Online, it started to crash and reboot after playing only 15 minutes!

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News

New tamper proof wireless scheme

April 27, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

Interesting article : Top secret quantum messages for your room only

It describe a new scheme to send a tamper proof signal that can only be read in a limited geographical location.

Really nice work. Cant wait to see it out of the lab!… Read the rest

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Google makes it crystal clear

April 24, 2010 Patrick Roy Leave a comment

Google has posted this new page where they list almost all governments demands to access private Google information. They also disclose governments censorship demands numbers.

Google placed China at the end of the list but we all suspect they should be a little higher than that had not China outlawed posting this kind of information.… Read the rest

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