Gmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
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Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 8 CommentsPreying on the Handicapped and Giving Geeks a Bad Name
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Security 8 CommentsWhen you’ve practically lived online day-in, day-out for the past decade or so you tend to develop a thick skin to the malevolent things that tend to happen every once in a while. But there are some things that you’d never expect, not once in a million years; they strike a nerve and they really [...]
Proper Shell Scripting on Windows Servers with Perl
Published by November 13th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Linux, Macintosh, Operating Systems, Programming, Software 5 CommentsFact: Shell scripting is a must for any serious IT admin managing a server. From automating backups to checking logs and keeping server performance and load in check, scripting is a must.
Fact: Shell scripting on Windows sucks.
Fact: Shell scripting on Linux and other *nix operating systems is powerful, well-documented, and quite straight-forward.
Most people take [...]
How-To: Changing the Windows Vista Startup Sound
Published by August 28th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Software, Windows 24 CommentsOf the many controversies surrounding Windows Vista, probably the most infamous (and pathetic) issues brought to the table is the Windows Vista Startup sound - and how to get rid of it. If you were anywhere but under a rock during the beta, it’s impossible to have missed the posts going back and forth by haters and [...]
DDOS Attacks & Server Updates
Published by June 5th, 2007 in Hacking, NeoSmart Technologies, Security, Software 1 CommentToday, at or around 15:30 GMT, NeoSmart Technologies was victim of a distributed denial of service attack that lasted over two and a half hours. Unfortunately, as a result of the DDOS attack, our server had to be hard-restarted and we encountered some data corruption. All files were recovered with the exception of our MySQL [...]
We Love You, Rinbot!
Published by March 1st, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Security, Software 36 CommentsIt’s not often that we openly sympathize with the virii writers, but this time, it’s too good to be true. Rinbot Generation 7 is targeting Symantec [[SYMC]] and Symantec users - and that’s a good thing.
Anyone using Symantec’s anti-virus software from 2006 and hasn’t updated it is vulnerable to a very powerful complete remote control [...]
Why isn’t WPA2 an Automatic Update?
Published by February 27th, 2007 in Hacking, Security, Software, Windows 18 CommentsIf you’re using Wi-Fi in your workplace, chances are, you’re using WPA2 security. After all, nothing else is worth using. WEP (extended or otherwise) was cracked virtually before it was even released, despite the obvious misnomer, you do not want to be using this! WPA came a while later, and is several hundred times more [...]
WordPress 2.0.7 Fixes the FeedBurner Bug
Published by January 16th, 2007 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Security, Software 2 CommentsFor the first (and hopefully last) time ever, we’re glad to hear that WordPress has a major security vulnerability. Why? As a result of a security vulnerability that affects WordPress 2.0.6 and below on certain server configurations, the WordPress Developers Team has released a new version of WordPress that incorporates both a security patch for [...]
Zune, Microsoft, & DRM: What’s all the Fuss About?
Published by October 9th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Hardware, Privacy, Security 29 CommentsSomeone help us out here. Since when does a bit of news about ‘crippled’ wi-fi activity and slightly-restricted file-sharing on a device make us lose all self-respect and denounce the product as hopeless?
Are we the only ones that how that every single MP3/Audio player to date has been successfully stripped of its firmware, souped-up, [...]
An Argument for Full Disclosure
Published by October 8th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Privacy, Programming, Security, Software 4 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies is a big proponent of Full Disclosure when dealing with security vulnerabilities. Many coders and general online denizens think that’s not a very nice thing to do – that it creates more harm than it helps; but if you look at the alternatives it becomes obvious that not only is Full Disclosure not [...]
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