Posts Tagged ‘hack’

Cruelcard Post-mortem: How my Joomla site got hacked

So, I decided to have a play with Joomla a couple of weeks ago as one of the first websites I ever built Cruelcard needed to be moved away from my Windows host and had to be rebuilt in something other than ASP. I’ve been wanting an excuse to...

Hacking a bridge

Here’s a cool project. As part of SwitchedOnLondon, the Tower Bridge in London has been turned into a massive light artefact. The cool thing is that pattern of lights on the Tower Bridge is actually governed by people walking along London Bridge, just down the road. Sensors on London Bridge...

Security Links

Interesting post on Lifehacker about Ophcrack Live CD which is a resource to help you recover lost Windows passwords. Apparently you create a CD which you boot with. This examines your Windows partition and extracts any passwords it finds from it. The other interesting aspect of the post is the...

WGA hack still works

Had to try this just to verify. The Windows “Genuine Advantage” initiative still hasn’t fixed the rudimentary hack reported on BoingBoing last week. You’d expect that someone would have plugged the hole, even renaming the flag (g_sDisableWGACheck) would stop most of the uneducated populace from taking advantage of the...

50 fun things to do on your iPod

Found on Kottke … In the four years since its introduction, the iPod has proven to be a versatile little device. Despite a relatively closed architecture, hackers have found their way in. Content creators and software makers put information at your fingertips when you’re on the go. Would-be designers have added...

Tracking down the vendor portion of a MAC address

Now .. this is interesting I was trying to track down the source of an IP address conflict earlier today and I came across two sites offering a search service for the initial 24-bit (6 digit hexadecimal) vendor portion of an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address. The IEEE service is...

Show My IP

Ever wondered what your external IP address was ? :...

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