Archive for October, 2006

Howto: Exposing Spam fullstop.

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Hi all, this morning I woke up to a very happy surprise that a whole 9 comments had been made on my site by my users, not just in one section, but in multiple sections. I quickly began to stutter to myself “b-b-but why..”. Then as I began reading the comments a discordant and intense [...]

Making A faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Many of you have heard of the legendary rainbow tables, but using the rainbow tables doesn’t mean you comprehend the practical application of the “trade-off”. In 1980 Martin Hellman descrypted a cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory. This technique was improved by Rvivest before 1982 [...]

Basic Security Issues in Linux

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

There are many default users that could be used to compromise a system, some common ones are:

who
rwho
finger

If a hacker can successfuly get one of those to work, they can write down the usernames of those users online, and try to logon as them. Lots of unsuspecting users use their login names as their password. For [...]

I’m a Google Terrorist.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Hello all, as usual your getting the same google rant you might expect from me. To all of you who read about what google felt about Martin Luther King, or other random varieties, we could acceptably find that funny, but now Google has gone too far. I have, iconically, become a google Terrorist.
Google have provided [...]

News: Google Launches new Video Player

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Today I discovered that google has added a new Video Player Download button to their site, So I clicked it, downloaded the application and gave it a try, its pretty neat, you should try it, its now bareable to watch and download ANY google video, how sweet is that? Google seems to have done it [...]

HowTo: index your site 100% graphically (eyecandy here)

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

This is amazing, truly amazing, thanks to discombo I know about it and now so do you, check these pics out!
It could be useful as a tool for analyzing sites (imagine it on a distributed system with some faster gigE ethernet vlans). Nice.

uber , look at it, true beauty ( and something to do in [...]

HowTo: Become a Lie Detector

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Introduction to Detect your friends lies:
The following techniques should give you an idea if someone is lying, this method is often used by police and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in every day situations where telling the truth is essential and can prevent you from [...]

HowTo: Vncserver on Debian Sarge

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Hi all, is that damned vncserver getting you confused? It shouldn’t, but it can be confusing when there is more than just 1 vncserver type available. Personally I prefer to stick to apt-get install vncserver, its simple, its not your xMing sort of setup, but it works, and it works well, every time.

apt-get install vncserver
vncserver [...]

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