[ad] Netscape.com has been hacked via a persistent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in their newly launched Digg-like news service. It seems the attacker did report the flaw to them repeatedly but they didn’t heed and ignored it, so he performed the XSS all over the site. eplawless stated the following: It was me. I […]
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Vista more insecure than XP
[ad] Symantec has made a research and affirming to there research Windows Vista will be more insecure than Windows XP, because most of the new code is fresh, and the old code isn’t used anymore… Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it with freshly written code, complete with […]
CAPTCHA – Safer and better looking
[ad] CAPTCHA, acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” is used, most of the times at least, as an authentication mechanism. Not to prove your identity, but to do a much simpler job than that; to prove your a human. With the bad guys always a step ahead (which […]
Play v2.71 Games on your v1.5 PSP
For those who haven’t noticed yet, today booster made a milestone in PSP history. Enabling firmware 2.71 emulation in DevHook 0.44. Alot has been going on lately in the PSP scene and its great. With the release of the 2.5/.6 downgrader and full iso and game emulation in DevHook. Download here. Credit goes to booster […]
Consultant Breached FBI’s Computers
[ad] Using standard script kiddy tools a consultant managed to compromise some of the FBI’s computers containing confidential information. Quite a hack eh? A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI’s classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert […]