News
Blackberry squash
A serious blackberry flaw was squashed and patched up by RIM.
Ratproxy
Google have introduced another web proxy assessment tool in the form of
Ratproxy. The good thing about it, it roots out potential vulnerabilities, even in Javascript snippets and considers browser oddities. However, the proof of the pudding would be how it handles authenticated sessions. Something that I know Paros proxy does not particularly do well.
Hacker Chronicles to Start
We finally have an artist keen to start working with us to design some groovy hacker comic strips. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a creative LULL, and uur man is "just married"; congrats to him! So we’ll be kicking it off soon. If you any ideas for what you’d like to see in the [...]
DNS Problems
Some of you may noticed MD has been down the last couple days, this was due to DNS problems from the recent move which has still not been resolved, however, we have setup some other DNS servers as a temporary measure until we can get the problem resolved with our ISP.
Old skule trix
Well today I found some old school hacking tactics come into play as two students got caught and were prosecuted for changing their grades at Calstate University. To be fair that looks to be an inside job and this was only discovered after a routine audit 2 years previously. Though I think 20 years [...]
