Search Results for: Hacking
The Key to Computer Crime
Computer Crime, Then and Now: Here’s a good post from Jeff Atwood that lays bare a simple truth: Social engineering is the most reliable and evergreen hacking technique ever devised. It will outlive us all. […] If you want to engage in computer crime, don’t waste your time developing ninja level hacking skills, because computers [...]
Unicode Filename Hacking
‘Right-to-Left Override’ Aids Email Attacks: The actual utility on this is limited since, on Windows at least, you need to change a registry value for this to work in filenames. Still, a little scary and hella obscure. The RLO character (U+202e in unicode) is designed to support languages that are written right to left, such [...]
Idea Collisions
I’ve seen two things lately that revolve around the same topic – the notion that great ideas come from “collisions” between smaller ideas. These two videos are both short, but really worth watching if you’re interested in mind hacking at all. When Ideas Have SexAt TED, Matt Ridley talks about this concept and really drives [...]
Redefining “Hacking”
Court Upholds Hacking Conviction of Man for Uploading Porn Pics from Work Computer: If you do more on your computer than a jury feels you were “authorized” to do, you’re apparently now guilty of “hacking.” Richard Wolf acknowledged that his behavior was inappropriate when he used his work computer to upload nude photos of himself [...]
Coding for Tomorrow
The more I program, the more I believe this statement: you’re not just programming for today, you’re programming for today and for six months from now when you crack the code open again to make a change and think, “Now, how does this code work again?” The fact is, things that make sense today, may [...]
PHPIDS: An Intrusion Detection System for PHP
PHPIDS – Web Application Security 2.0: This looks interesting — an intrusion detection system for PHP. No idea how it works. Based on a set of approved and heavily tested filter rules any attack is given a numerical impact rating which makes it easy to decide what kind of action should follow the hacking attempt. [...]
The Hacking of Symbolic Motors
RAM raiders: inside secrets of the cyber hackers: Here’s a great story about white-hat hackers testing the defenses of Symbolic Motors in the San Diego area. It’s a blast to read, and part of a larger article at the London Times. He tells me about one of his cases involving Symbolic Motors in La Jolla, [...]
Should you price IE6 support as a separate proposal item?
Along with every Web developer on Earth, I hate IE6. This thing is the cause for so much re-work and so much needless fiddling around. We had an internal debate here about when to stop supporting it. We didn’t really come to an absolute decision on it, but Joe did come up with an interesting [...]
The Russian Hacking Culture
Scam Czars: What’s Russian for ‘Hacker’?: An interesting article that attempts to explain why so many hackers come from Russia. Russia has long had a strong system of math and science education, and until the relatively recent upturn in the economy, the multitudes of whiz kids who graduated from its schools often had poor job [...]
“the first major motion picture to accurately portray a hack”
Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred: An old article, but one I’d missed up until now: apparently “The Matrix Reloaded” contains the rarest of cinematic rarities — an accurate hack attempt. An Nmap port scan is a common prelude to an intrusion attempt — a way of casing the joint, to find out if any vulnerable [...]