Bruno Silva

Welcome to my new blog!

Update your references, because here is where everything will be happening

I hope you enjoy the design. It was based on Tredndy 1.0.

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Do you want to share an really big URL in a presentation to an audience or in a printed document?
Maybe it isn’t such a good idea. It’s a boring task to copy it and in a presentation you don’t want to show a slide for 5 minutes to let everyone copy it.

Well, you can use TinyURL.com. Type any long URL you want and it will create a new one like http://tinyurl.com/37xaar. It can be useful.
I found out about it in TechEd, when a speaker left some references in the end of the presentation.

Web Application Security
Alik Levin

The first part didn’t brought any knews. The only funny thing is that we pretended to be hacking TechEd website, but he was using an internal webserver while spoofing the adress
The showed us Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1 as a sniffing tool. He made some SQL injection in a search form to reveal the schema of the database and retrieve login and password information.
Alik talked about exploiting over privileged accounts. Applications should only have permissions to access and do what it needs, otherwise some hacker can use the extra privileges to his own needs.

I head about some tools I didn’t know and that can be quite useful.
Guidance Explorer - a tools that allows you to navigate in best practices documentation, select topics of your interest and export into a Word document.

Thread Analysis and Modeling tool - a tool where you can describe your application and find out what flaws you may have and how to fix them. It can also produce some useful reports.

FindStr and MSIL Disassembler - These two tools together allows you (for testing) or hackers (for attacking) to find critical data like passwords from .NET assemblies.

Blogging Panel
Tom Mertens

During Thursday lunch time it was a Q&A session with some bloggers.
It was discussed that blogs started as an digital diary and nowadays it has any kind of information.
RSS format and readers were pointed as one of the big causes of bog popularity. It’s is easy to follow a lot of blogs with RSS and there are even tools to filter information from these blogs.
Someone in the audience asked in which language did the panel members write in. They write in English because it reaches an larger audience, but if they are talking about some specific content to their country, they also post in their native languages.
Another topic was how to find time to blog. One person said that he thought that if son many important and busy people in the world find the time to blog, he could also find his own time to blog. By the other hand blogging can be important as a profile builder. Blogging makes us known in communities and inside our companies. It’s a way for people get to know us and our area of expertise.

I had to left before the end of the session to have lunch. So this is all I heard about.