Archive for November, 2006

michaeldaw.org’s new look

I made some vital changes to the website last week. I quite liked the cool ajax search engine. However, michaeldaw has grown so quickly that I found that my initial look and feel had become completely obsolete. It has become increasingly difficult to navigate. I have now completely changed the site. I feel the new [...]


Load Balancing

When looking for a web application testing vendor, it is critical that one key area of focus should be load balancing checks.

Why is this so vital?
I have seen pairs of load balanced web servers running the same application on completely different web server types. I have also seen load balanced web servers running the same [...]


RSS Injection in Sage part 2

2 months ago, both pdp any myself released a vulnerability “Cross Context Scripting in Sage”. This issue was resolved in Sage release 1.3.7 (see: http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15101). I found a new vulnerability which affects the latest version, Sage 1.3.8. In addition to the XSS vulnerability, it should be noted (as in the previous vulnerability) that this [...]


Website Updated

Noticeable changes:
- Popular Links feature added to blog-menu
- Search facility moved to the header and now actually works.

I have tested these features on Firefox 1.5, IE7 and Opera. Please let me know if you run into any bugs.


JavaScript Scanner 1.0c Released

Introduction:
This project is based around host detection via JavaScript port scanning. A screenshot of the project can be seen below.

ChangeLogs
v1.0b:
+ jssWebImage Scanner
v1.0c:
+ Did some housekeeping on comments etc.
+ Added michaeldaw.org stylesheet to jss.html
+ Added result function to optimize code.
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