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The Joys of Scaremongering
According to a report I’ve just glanced over, 9 out of 10 websites are “sitting ducks”. The article lists a whole range of problems that websites ranging from Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploits to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF). With such a range of issues most… Read more »
The 12 most common application level hack attacks
I got an interesting paper in my email today entitled The 12 Most Common Application Level Hack Attacks? written by Watchfire Corporation. Most development probably know about most of these, but it was nice to see them collected in one place. In a nut shell,… Read more »
You make it, we’ll break it!
The iPhone has only been around for a couple of days and a number of people out there are working hard at breaking into the device. It’s strange how a whole industry has spawned around people hacking their way around software and systems .. and… Read more »
SecureZIP – The next generation of ZIP
PKWare will always have a place in my mind as being the people who brought the ZIP compression algorithm to the masses. Their then flagship product, PKZIP, had practically become the de facto standard for compression and was used by everyone I knew. It seems… Read more »
GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner version 8
I noticed that GFI has released a new version of their network security scanner which now has the ability to scan your entire network for over 15,000 vulnerabilities. There’s a 30 days free trial to use the product, so I just went ahead and downloaded… Read more »
Cracking WEP now takes less than 1 minute
It seems like WEP has gone the way of the dodo. According to this paper it is now possible to crack 104-bit WEP in under a minute. Here’s a synopsis. We were able to extend Klein’s attack and optimize it for usage against WEP. Using… Read more »
Security vs Access
It’s interesting to see how the right sort of tension in the workplace can bring about better results in what a team is trying to achieve. I’m working on a long term project at the moment for the Isle of Man Government, which is tasked… Read more »
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