I frequently use Wireshark to troubleshoot communication issues between systems and today I got the itch to see if Wireshark installs on Mac OS X (15.4). I was pleased to see that Wireshark (currently at revision 1.02) is available for Apple’s OS. I download the dmg and easily installed Wireshark (similar to other apps you install for Mac - drag icon into Apps). After installing, I then ran the app and it came up without issue however I couldn’t see any nics. Initial thoughts were that it is a permission issue so I then closed the app, opened terminal and issued a

sudo wireshark

A security warning popped up, I clicked Ok and then was able to view the interfaces and initiate a capture on my active interface - en1.

I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into Wireshark and was excited to see it work just as well on my Mac as it does on my Windows machine

Source: Wireshark.org

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If you are a Gmail user, you’ve always had the capability to plug https into your browser and use gmail securely - but now Gmail has added a feature to force this behavior! So log in to gmail now (don’t wait), go to settings, general tab, browser connections - set it to ALWAYS USE HTTPS!

Gmail rocks…

Source

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I just finished reading up on some interesting press about a Cisco Rootkit presentation coming up at EUSecWest this Thursday, May 22. According to the article it is not to be released into the wild but is only present to show that this type of thing can happen and how they have done so. I’m very interested to hear more about this one especially after Cisco gate/Lynn sometime ago.

This is a placeholder for me to revisit this after the presentation date on May 22.

Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051408-hacker-writes-rootkit-for-ciscos.html?t51hb

Cisco’s current response (aware of issue, researching, yada yada):
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20080516-rootkits.shtml

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I’m always reading up on career related information when it comes along. Given that my chosen field of work/study is in Information Technology (IT), things change as quick as the Florida weather and I try and keep up with career related information to ensure I’m not heading off the deep end and I’m keeping up with skills that are needed out there ( as well as the salary - can’t be left behind there!). No sense in sharpening skills that aren’t needed anymore (time is of the essence, better spent on what is needed)!

Here are some links to some useful current career information (I’m still reading through them myself - this post is my placeholder):

2008 Salary Report
- This is great for employees and managers/business executives/owners. If you lack time, hop straight to the summary (page 11) which gives a good overview of the article.

Business Skills for the Technical Professional
Planning to climb up the food chain? Good information here. Speaking of climbing the food chain, here’s good joke I read the other day:

A pheasant was standing in a field chatting with a bull.
“I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,”
sighed the pheasant, “but I haven’t got the energy.”
“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?”
replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.” The
pheasant pecked at a lump of dung and found that it
actually gave him enough strength to reach the first
branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more
dung, he reached the second branch. And so on.
Finally, after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched
at the top of the tree, whereupon he was spotted by a
farmer who dashed into the farmhouse, emerged with a
shotgun, and shot the pheasant right out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top,
but it won’t keep you there.

Ha!, so true…

Update : Found a couple more that were interesting reads:
Network World: High-tech jobs growing across U.S.

PARADE: What People Earn, our annual report.
- Interesting to skim through and also puts things into perspective (all things relative). Mentioned as ‘good jobs for now’: Wireless, Security, Energy, Accounting, Database Admin. Mentioned as ‘good jobs for the future’: IT, Law, and New Media.

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I guess the real reason I don’t agree with this is best summed up by a posting I read on this issue over at rgov.org:

“It offends me that Road Runner is trying to profit off of its customers’ typos, especially at the risk of interrupting customers’ software that may rely on NXDOMAIN DNS requests.”

If I wanted this service, I should have been asked to opt-in! Instead we’re thrown into it and have to search the web for answers. Turns out, there is supposedly a way to opt out from the service: link. I’ve disabled the service - just waiting to see if it takes or not.

If I had wanted this functionality, I would have configured opendns or similar. Sheesh…

References:
rgov
slashdot

Update : Google is doing this as well - with their toolbar version 5. To remove it
- Click the wrench icon on the Google Toolbar.
- In the Options window, select the Search tab.
- Uncheck the box next to Browse by name in the address bar.
- Click Save.

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