Today I was looking at a post at cryptome.org that shows all the IP addresses controlled by or somehow affiliated with the NSA. I had seen previous versions of [...] Continue Reading…

Shortly after my last post on CAPTCHAs, some of you may have noticed MustLive’s CAPTCHA bypass tests in the comments below the article. Although I moderate all comments to [...] Continue Reading…

I was playing around with Google Trends today which is always interesting trying to find a correlation between search volume of various terms (do more people hack when it [...] Continue Reading…

China denies that it’s military hacked into British government networks. They also deny hacking into the Pentagon. The funny thing is that they probably did both and everyone knows [...] Continue Reading…

I have run across a design issue in VMware’s scripting automation API that diminishes VM guest/host isolation in such a manner to facilitate privilege escalation, spreading of malware, and [...] Continue Reading…

In my previous post on CAPTCHAs I mentioned that “…you need to make sure the end user can’t do anything to influence what code you pick.”

For this example, I [...] Continue Reading…

Filling out a web form without also having to pass a CAPTCHA test nowadays is pretty rare. CAPTCHAs weren’t really that annoying to me when they were more of [...] Continue Reading…

I almost feel embarrassed writing a post like this because it is such old news. Google hacking really shouldn’t be that interesting anymore. But it still is.

Although Google Code [...] Continue Reading…

Harry Waldron pointed out on his blog an article from the CRN Test Center that claims that XP and Vista are equally at peril when it comes to security.
There [...] Continue Reading…

Ars Technica reports that Congress is looking in to the extent of the cooperation between phone companies and the NSA. This interest was sparked by the White House’s proposal [...] Continue Reading…

I was playing around today with Google searches to see what has happened so far with May’s patch releases. First of all, I simply did a Google search for [...] Continue Reading…

Ok, this post is really just an advertisement for an affiliate program I am in but I thought it was interesting enough to promote:

Looking at their selection I found [...] Continue Reading…

Sprites mods has an interesting article about hacking the protection of a hardware authentication device:

http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=secustick

What’s interesting about this is that it shows how easy it is to feel like [...] Continue Reading…

Here’s a password strength tester, and probably one of the most effective I have seen. Just enter your password in the text box and click on the search button. [...] Continue Reading…

I got a chance to review a [uh, text only] copy of the Playboy article about Kevin Mitnick and was quite surprised with how captivated I was reading it. [...] Continue Reading…