2004-01-29 20:30
by Vasil Kolev It was a funny day…
It began with the installation of mambo for iseca.org, and flipflop’s whining about bugs, cookies, the hunger in Somalia, etc. I wrote a translation for mambo, and put that up on the firm’s site, it didn’t get approved for iseca, because the system doesn’t support multiple languages simultaneously. Stoooopid.
Another interesting thing was the migration of FSA(fsa-bg.org), First with Yasen Pramatarov, then with ANton Zinoviev we transferred the things, made them work, and the only thing left was for Anton to fix some minor issues with the site, and to ask Yovko Lambrev to change the DNS configuration. It took a lot of time, because the configuration was truly interesting, with procmail, cvs, and a lot more black magic… IMO, that was more complex than the norm.
The ex-firm called to look at a machine, that in my calculations had to get all users moved out of it already, but a lot of them are still there, and they have all sorts of stupid problems… Its a nasty job, I don’t envy them :)
We talked about the seminar, that iseca is planning to do around 25th of February, about security in web applications, and I have to chose a few topics to speak….
I still haven’t written to the students, whose papers I’ve looked through,’ I’ll just have to insert that somewhere between the other TODO items…
More than 4 different people tried to get me out to get a beer, people, i have a lot of work, and it’s not that common for me, let me finish it :)
There is some really stupid rumor spreading around – the MyDoom/Novarg virus had the ability to infect BIOSes, to open TCP port from there, to which the bad guys to connect and do bad stuff. And that was made possible with some amount of code in FORTH….
A few stupid questions – how the hell will the BIOS open a port, on condition that the OS doesn’t let him do anything( has somebody heard about protected mode?) (and that’s saying nothing that the minimal TCP/IP stack is 4kbytes, and it’s not present in the virus), how will it know where to send it’s packets? Or it will perform some black magic and communicate with Windows? I’d love to see that, especially the part with writing in the BIOS without FUBARing it….
Okay, it’s time to go back to the tasks, I’ll need to get some sleep, too..