Pidgin Unable to login to Yahoo

Recently I can’t login to Yahoo Messenger using Pidgin version 2.5.6. If I ‘m not mistaken this problem happened since last Friday.

I’ve tried to solve this problem by doing the followings :

• disable all the plugins
• remove the Pidgin configuration
• remove the Pidgin from my system
• reinstall the Pidgin

but still no luck.

Detecting Web Application Firewalls

In OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 in Poland, Sandro Gauci and Wendel G. Henrique gave a presentation titled “The Truth About Web Application Firewalls:What the vendors do not want you to know“.

In the presentation they mentions that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) :

• can be detected, because they leave several signs
• can be bypassed by changing the attack in order to avoid rules

Have You Check Your 3G Modem Network Type?

If you got the following error message when you’re connecting to the Internet using 3G modem, you might want to check the 3G modem configuration first before you buy a new 3G modem.


# wvdial -C /etc/wvdial-modem.conf
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
NO CARRIER
--> No Carrier!  Trying again.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.