Energizer DUO USB battery charger software allows unauthorized remote system access

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Energizer DUO is a USB battery charger. Included with the charger is a Windows application that allows the user to view the battery charging status. The installer for the Energizer DUO software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application's directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. When the Energizer ...

How Many Virtual Machines Do You Have Running At Home?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

I just noticed that I have 13 different virtual machines installed on my home VirtualBox installation.  It seems like a lot but there are many more that I would love to install and play with.  This is just a variety of flavors I've needed in the past for "testing" ...

Results of Vegan December

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

As some of you know, I decided to go vegan for the month of December just to try it out and see what all the hype was.  This morning was my final weigh-in for this vegan experiment and I must say the results were really impressive.First off, those who know ...

W3 Total Cache

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

I'm trying out a new caching plugin for Wordpress called W3 Total Cache and so far I am very impressed.  PC Sympathy is now running it and using Amazon Cloudfront as the CDN.  I see a tremendous improvement over the other caching plugins.  Here's some bullet points for W3 Total ...

InfoSec Snobs

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I've read two articles recently that helps validate what I've been noticing since I joined Twitter and started listening to Security podcasts to gain more information in the field.  I keep seeing posts and hearing comments from certain people (no names will be mentioned but most of you will know ...