August 2008
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300 Spartans vs 21 Sikhs
I guess, most of you guys might have seen the movie ‘300’ (based on novel by Frank Miller). If you haven’t, well, watch it. I wont tell that its a master piece but its certainly one of its kind. Extreme boredom on a fine day resulted in watching the movie for the second time and doing a small research on the story line.
Well, these are the important points …
Its about...
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Unpack JS
Without any intro - crap that I usually write explaining why I had to write this post, I’m going for the subject. You(general junta or web developers or scared security guys) might see some eval packed javascript which phishing idiots ask you to copy paste on your URL bar and hit enter key.
Unpacking JS is a PITA was an answer that my brain use to give whenever I think about it. Just now, I...
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Escape from Phishing Nets
Recently, too much action happening when it comes to email accounts. Couple of friends complained that they’ve lost their logins all of a sudden. One friend from college complained that his girl’s email account was compromised. They believe that some hacker at brazil opened his terminal and wrote ./hack user@gmail.com to hack them. Few really think that it as simple as opening...
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DNS Vulnerability and our stupid ISPs
Guess you know what is DNS ?
If you don’t know what it is …
Its Domain Name System. All the servers will have some set of numbers to identify them (IP), to recognize them easily we give them a name (domain name) and for internet to work, DNS maps these names to numbers. (Duh, read wikipedia for more info)
For the techie folks who know whats DNS, you might have missed this news....