Random Musings - Day #364

Money talks are contrasting fortunes for the premiership leaders and bottom team.
Chelsea claim they are debt-free whereas Portsmouth have alledgedly been given a winding up order.

Statistics is only what you make of it. Chelsea are leading the premiership. But an interesting statistic states only 4 times in the last 15 years have the team leading at the new year gone on to win the premiership. But Chelsea have led twice at new years and gone on to win.

Is it me but the price of bananas has suddenly gone. You could get a bunch of 6 bananas for 60p. Now it is over a pound.

Law of Vulnerabilities as discussed by Qualys.
This RFC rfc2827 discusses ingress filtering for ISP's and companies for protection against DOS attacks, and would seem to be getting some attention again of late.

Splunk is software that indexes data from any application, server or network device enabling you to search and analyze billions of events across your IT infrastructure from one location in real time

ldd (ldd - list dynamic decrepency)

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

http://reverse.lostrealm.com/protect/ldd.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514408